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Energy
‘You feel kind of forgotten’: Meet a California pipe fitter who got to $118k earnings after a decade but doesn’t know what’s next after the refinery shuts down
By Sophie Austin and The Associated PressOctober 12, 2025
A drilling rig is pictured at an oil well site in the Permian Basin with trucks of workers and equipment lined up.
Environment
U.S. oil prices dip below nerve-wracking $60 threshold with record-high production in the balance
By Jordan BlumApril 7, 2025
US President Donald Trump during an executive order signing ceremony in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, US, on Thursday, Jan. 30, 2025.
Finance
Trump vows to tap America’s ‘liquid gold’ oil reserves and ‘drill baby, drill’—the only problem is, it’s not up to him
By Eleanor PringleFebruary 9, 2025
The ExxonMobil Building
Finance
The untold story of how Exxon scored a $1 trillion oil bonanza that 30 rivals passed up
By Kevin Crowley and BloombergAugust 4, 2024
A worker on an oil rig
Success
Don’t have a college education and want to make bank and take half the year off? Oil rig work is the hot job for many Americans
By Sunny NagpaulJanuary 27, 2024
Biden trolled by oil industry group over ‘White House intern’s’ demand to slash prices at the gas pump
Politics
Biden trolled by oil industry group over ‘White House intern’s’ demand to slash prices at the gas pump
By Christiaan HetznerJuly 4, 2022
A construction worker is seen through the porthole of an under construction fuel storage tank at the VTTV oil storage terminal, a joint venture of Vitol Group and MISC Bhd., in Vasilikos, Cyprus, on Friday, Feb. 21, 2014.
Energy
Oil market to get even tighter on Russia disruptions, world’s biggest independent crude trader says
By Paul Wallace and BloombergMarch 6, 2022
Lukoil-West Siberia oil and gas company
Energy
Russia’s second-largest oil producer just posted its biggest profit in at least 7 years amid war in Ukraine and a surge in energy prices
By BloombergMarch 2, 2022
House Democrats call on oil industry to testify on climate change disinformation campaign
Energy
House Democrats call on oil industry to testify on climate change disinformation campaign
By Matthew Daly and The Associated PressSeptember 16, 2021
Demonstrators hold cardboard wind turbines in the air during a protest over climate action in Kiel, Germany in November 2019.
Energy
The oil industry is finally talking climate crisis, but don’t expect change to come easily
By Katherine DunnFebruary 28, 2020
A picture taken on December 2, 2019 in Donges, near Saint-Nazaire, western France, shows a view of Total Refinery and fuel depot as public works companies (BTP) workers strain some accesses to protest against a planned tax reform. (Photo by LOIC VENANCE / AFP) (Photo by LOIC VENANCE/AFP via Getty Images)
Energy
Oil giant Total is being sued by cities and NGOs for not fighting climate change hard enough
By Francois de Beaupuy and BloombergJanuary 28, 2020
Oil Boom in Texas's Permian Basin
Energy
Why Cheap Oil Is Bad News for Workers in Texas
By BloombergDecember 28, 2018
Icon of company Shell over blue sky: Shell Oil Company is
Energy
Shell Profits Jump Past Expectations as It Figures Out the New World of Low Oil Prices
By ReutersNovember 2, 2017
Energy Secretary Rick Perry to Hecklers: Fossil Fuels Save Lives
Energy
Energy Secretary Rick Perry to Hecklers: Fossil Fuels Save Lives
By Natasha BachSeptember 26, 2017
Oil and gas job cuts
Finance
Oil Price Spike May Not Save Energy Sector
By Tsvetana Paraskova and Oilprice.comJanuary 9, 2017
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