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News Articles: oil

Argenis Dominguez fueling up his SUV at a gas station in Boston. He drives Uber for a living and says the higher gas prices mean less money in his pocket.

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  • Your Money

Record gas prices hit working class Americans with inflation already surging

With each passing day the disruption of oil markets related to Russia's invasion of Ukraine pushes up gas prices in the U.S. to a new record.

March 10, 2022
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By:
  • Chris Arnold
A closed Gazprom gasoline station is shown in Almaty, Kazakhstan, on Jan. 9.

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  • Business

Major oil companies pull out of once-promising Russia

Announcements from Shell and BP will further hit Russia's tanking economy — and batter its image as a go-to place for oil and gas investments.

March 01, 2022
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By:
  • Peter Granitz

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  • Energy

How a wrinkle in the oil futures market has clogged America's oil pump

The U.S. is still the largest producer of oil, but we're a long way from pumping what we were before the pandemic. Blame backwardation.

March 01, 2022
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By:
  • Paddy Hirsch
Specialist Meric Greenbaum, left, works at his post on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange on Black Friday. Stocks dropped after a coronavirus variant appears to be spreading across the globe.

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  • Health

Stocks and oil prices drop as the world reacts to new coronavirus variant omicron

Stock markets around the world tumbled on concerns about the new variant. While it's too soon to tell exactly how the variant functions, virologists are rushing to learn more.

November 26, 2021
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By:
  • Martin Kaste and
  • Joel Rose
A customer prepares to pump gas into her car at a Shell station on Wednesday in San Rafael, Calif. A surge in gas prices this year is leaving the Biden administration looking for options to do something about it. One that's getting recent attention is tapping the country's emergency oil stockpile.

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  • Energy

The U.S. emergency oil stash is in the spotlight as gas prices surge. What to know

President Biden is looking at options to bring down high prices. One possibility attracting a lot of attention is releasing crude oil from the country's emergency reserves.

November 22, 2021
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By:
  • Camila Domonoske
A seawall stretches for hundreds of miles along the coast of Guyana, in northern South America. It protects the low-lying coastal lands where the majority of Guyana's population lives. The region is acutely threatened by rising sea levels, as well as other symptoms of climate change, yet Guyana is embracing the oil industry.

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  • Business

Guyana is a poor country that was a green champion. Then Exxon discovered oil

Guyana, one of South America's poorest countries, is under severe threat by rising seas. That had made it a champion of climate action, but it all changed when ExxonMobil found oil off its waters.

November 07, 2021
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By:
  • Camila Domonoske and
  • Ryan Kellman
Saudi Energy Minister Abdulaziz bin Salman speaks at an investment conference in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on Jan. 27. OPEC and its allies on Thursday decided to gradually boost oil production in anticipation of a rebound in crude demand over the summer.

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  • Business

OPEC+ To Gradually Boost Oil Production Ahead Of Expected Summer Rebound In Demand

Citing vaccination rollouts and various stimulus packages globally, the powerful oil cartel and its allies made a surprise announcement that it would gradually boost oil production over three months.

April 01, 2021
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By:
  • Camila Domonoske
Amin Nasser, president and chief executive officer of Saudi Aramco, speaks during the fourth edition of the Future Investment Initiative conference at the Ritz-Carlton hotel on Jan. 27, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

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  • Energy

Saudi Oil Giant Aramco Reports 44% Profit Slump In 2020 Amid Coronavirus Pandemic

Saudi Arabia's state-backed oil company earned $49 billion last year as the pandemic slashed fuel demand around the globe, in what its CEO called "one of the most challenging years in history."

March 21, 2021
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By:
  • Alex Leff
Rep. Deb Haaland D-N.M., sworn in during a Senate Committee hearing on Feb. 23 in Washington, D.C. She was confirmed as first Native American Interior Secretary on Mar. 15.

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  • National

Energy-Producing Tribal Nation Hopes New Interior Secretary Will Make Drilling Easier

The Osage Nation is one of a dozen tribal nations in the U.S. that have significant oil and gas reserves. Its citizens are optimistic that Deb Haaland will help them keep extracting fossil fuels.

March 18, 2021
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  • Allison Herrera
Oil pump jacks operate at dusk in Long Beach, Calif., on April 21, 2020. After getting burned by the oil industry's previous boom-and-bust cycles, Wall Street now wants energy companies to pump less crude, not more.

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  • Energy

Hold That Drill: Why Wall Street Wants Energy Companies To Pump Less Oil, Not More

After bankrolling oil companies for years and seeing poor returns, investors are now pressuring companies to keep their oil output lower, instead of higher.

March 06, 2021
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By:
  • Camila Domonoske
A pumpjack operates in the desert oil fields in southern Bahrain on April 22, 2020. Bahrain and other members of the OPEC+ alliance decided Thursday to keep output largely unchanged as they hope to push crude prices even higher after a recent rally.

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  • Energy

OPEC And Allies Keep Oil Production Steady As Saudi Arabia Urges 'Caution'

Oil prices have risen remarkably over the last few months. Now the powerful oil cartel is keeping a lid on supply in an attempt to push crude prices even higher.

March 04, 2021
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By:
  • Camila Domonoske
Sheikh Ahmed Zaki Yamani, Saudi Arabia's then-oil minister on Dec. 1, 1973, in London during talks on the oil crisis.

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  • World

Ahmed Zaki Yamani, Key To Making Saudi Arabia A World Oil Power, Dies At 90

He was Saudi Arabia's oil minister for nearly 25 years, rising to fame for engineering the 1973 oil embargo and negotiating Saudi control of Aramco from U.S. fuel giants.

February 24, 2021
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By:
  • Jackie Northam
A sign in the Jonah Field advertises cheap rates at a deserted motel built for oil and gas workers.

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  • National

A Wyoming County Predicts 'Total Economic Devastation' From Biden Leasing Ban

Most of the oil and gas drilled in Wyoming comes from federal land and communities there are bracing for job losses and school funding cuts in the wake of a Biden administration pause on new leasing.

January 28, 2021
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By:
  • Kirk Siegler
Hurricane Laura sends large waves crashing on a beach in Cameron, La., on Aug. 26 as an offshore oil rig appears in the distance. The most active hurricane season on record was just one of many challenges facing the oil industry this year — aside from the attention-grabbing crisis of the pandemic.

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  • Business

It Wasn't Just The Pandemic: Oil's Terrible, No Good, Very Bad Year

The coronavirus-induced collapse in oil demand stole all the headlines. But oil companies faced a myriad of other woes, too, from hurricanes to itchy investors — and, of course, climate change.

January 03, 2021
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By:
  • Camila Domonoske
An Exxon station in Hicksville, N.Y., in March. Exxon Mobil Corp. announced up to $20 billion in write-downs of natural gas assets, the biggest such action ever by the company.

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  • Business

Exxon Writes Off Record Amount From Value of Assets Amid Energy Market Downturn

Exxon, which usually avoids writing down assets, has announced its largest-ever impairment after canceling plans for natural gas projects in the Americas.

December 02, 2020
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By:
  • Camila Domonoske
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