Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Oil and water certainly don’t mix, but oil and money certainly do. And with the world fixated on the sort of oil that fuels our ...

Some recent headlines and quotes from the press: “Peak Oil is Suddenly Upon Us” (Bloomberg 12/1/20); “Even Exxon Mobil is Capitulating to Peak Oil Demand” (Bloomberg 12/1/20); “End Game for Oil? OPEC ...

Oil price lessons from 1983 Crude oil prices dropped precipitously in the latter part of 2014, raising challenging questions about where they might go in 2015. Undershooting well below a mythical ...

Berkeley physics professor Richard Muller, author of the new textbook "Physics and Technology for Future Presidents," says Barack Obama could learn a lesson from the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. Using ...

Oil and gas markets have always been volatile. Prices went up, prices went down — sometimes violently — and when they did, fortunes were made and lost. The industry learned to live with volatility, ...

This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist's weekly newsletter here. During the infamous oil embargo of 1973, when the world's petroleum-producing countries stopped exporting to ...

Mark Twain’s declaration that “History doesn’t repeat itself, but it does rhyme” is an appropriate and memorable reminder in the wake of the March 24, Galveston Bay oil spill. It’s one more prompt ...

Last week’s explosion and sinking of an oil-exploration rig off the coast of Louisiana prompted that state’s Democratic Sen. Mary L. Landrieu to call for a federal investigation. She also said the rig ...

Iraq is preparing to open its doors to foreign oil companies in a big way. Petroleum experts believe the war-torn country is underexplored and could potentially rival Saudi Arabia in oil reserves. And ...

There is plenty of oil available in the world. In fact, the biggest worry of major oil producers is the lack of sufficient growth in demand. And yet, the world has fallen in the grip of a serious oil ...