Tag: Oil

FILE - In this Nov. 6, 2013, file photo, a BNSF Railway train hauls crude oil near Wolf Point, Mont. The oil industry's lead trade group released new standards on Thursday, Sept. 25, 2014, for testing and classifying crude shipped by rail after prior shipments were misclassified, including a train that derailed in Canada and killed 47 people. Shipping oil by rail has become far more common as domestic drilling booms in North Dakota, Montana, Texas, Colorado and other states. (AP Photo/Matthew Brown, File)

Oil industry offers crude-train testing standards

Matthew Brown · September 25, 2014 11:15 pm

In this Wednesday Sept. 24, 2014 photo, a customer reaches for the regular switch to fill her tank with the $2.92-a-gallon regular gas at a RaceWay gas station in Richland, Miss. The typical autumn decline in gasoline prices is getting a big push lower by falling global oil prices. By the end of the year, up to 30 states could have an average gasoline price of under $3 a gallon. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

Prices at the pump head below $3 in much of US

Jonathan Fahey · September 25, 2014 10:59 pm

Mexican cartels steal billions from oil industry

Mark Stevenson · September 25, 2014 6:28 pm

In this Tuesday, Sept. 23, 2014 photo released by the U.S. Air Force, a formation of U.S. Navy F-18E Super Hornets leaves after receiving fuel from a KC-135 Stratotanker over northern Iraq, as part of U.S. led coalition airstrikes on the Islamic State group and other targets in Syria. U.S.-led airstrikes targeted Syrian oil installations held by the militant Islamic State group overnight and early Thursday, Sept. 25, 2014, killing nearly 20 people as the militants released dozens of detainees in their de facto capital, fearing further raids, activists said. (AP Photo/U.S. Air Force, Staff Sgt. Shawn Nickel)

National Security

US-led strikes hit IS-held oil sites in Syria

Diaa Hadid · September 25, 2014 6:17 pm

FILE - In this April, 1975 file photo, Syria opens its fourth oil field at Jbeissah, 19 miles west of the Iraq Border. Activists say that U.S.-led airstrikes have targeted Syrian oil installations held by the militant Islamic State group, killing at least five people on Thursday, Sept. 25, 2014. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and two local activist collectives say the airstrikes hit refineries and oil fields in the eastern provinces of Deir el-Zour and Hassakeh.(AP Photo/Harry Koundakjian, File)

Syria, Iraq oil controlled by Islamic State group

Bassem Mroue · September 25, 2014 5:47 pm

U.S., Arab allies target ISIS-controlled oil refineries in latest Syria strike

National Security

U.S., Arab allies target ISIS-controlled oil refineries in latest Syria strike

Charles Hoskinson · September 25, 2014 1:08 pm

BP’s Gulf oil spill costs approach $50 billion

BP’s Gulf oil spill costs approach $50 billion

Washington Examiner · September 24, 2014 7:11 pm

Two Captain Planets and a polar bear were among the protesters in New York on Monday. (AP/Seth Wenig)

Energy and Environment

The People’s March against common sense

Washington Examiner · September 24, 2014 9:00 am

FILE - In this Aug. 3, 2014 file photo, an oil pump works at sunset in the desert oil fields of Sakhir, Bahrain. Political turmoil and military conflict in certain global hotspots has typically sent oil prices soaring. There's plenty of that now, but oil is near its low for the year. (AP Photo/Hasan Jamali, File)

Oil near its low for the year despite turmoil

Jonathan Fahey · September 23, 2014 9:45 pm

Oil Company sued by supplier seeking $4.7M

Oil Company sued by supplier seeking $4.7M

Washington Examiner · September 23, 2014 8:19 pm

"This is a problem that can't be attacked by government alone. ... The private sector not only has a role but a responsibility to play along actively," former homeland security adviser Frances Townsend said. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

New nonprofit seeks to cut off funding for extremist groups

Charles Hoskinson · September 22, 2014 5:27 pm

Oil magnate John D. Rockefeller is shown in this 1930 photo. (AP Photo)

Energy and Environment

Rockefellers to withdraw fossil fuel investments

Zack Colman · September 22, 2014 5:09 pm