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The vulnerability of the world economy to oil prices was painfully visible in the first half of 2026 following the US and ...

Everyone expected $150 oil when Iran choked the Strait of Hormuz. Instead prices keep falling — and one contrarian forecast ...

Tulsa was once known as the oil capital of the world, with petroleum production beginning even before statehood. But it is a ...

The biggest oil supply shock in history has reached the one-month mark. Prices have surged, growth forecasts are being cut worldwide, and shortages are emerging across Asia, from Thailand to Pakistan.

Brian Sullivan's direct conversations with industry executives and experts based both here and in the Middle East indicate ...

WHAT WAS once unthinkable now appears unending. Most energy traders used to assume that, even under attack, Iran would not close the Strait of Hormuz, the narrow chokepoint through which almost a ...

Almost every day, an oil tanker arrives off the coast of Guyana to pick up a cargo that could reach a buyer practically anywhere on the planet. The stream of shipments is all the more remarkable ...

Geologist Scott Montgomery tells The Conversation Weekly podcast how strategic oil reserves work and why the U.S. keeps oil in underground salt caverns.

The country’s oil industry has undergone major shifts and two waves of nationalization since its first well started pumping in 1914. By Jonathan Wolfe Venezuela’s oil industry has undergone radical ...