oil

Former Exxon Mobil Corp. CEO Rex Tillerson was an outspoken critic of the rule designed to prevent bribery.

In a victory for the oil industry, Congress makes it easier to pay bribes for drilling rights

Economics

Oil and mining industries stand to gain as the US backs out of a rule to prevent overseas oil bribery.

A worker pumps gas into a vehicle at a gas station, which belongs to Venezuela's state oil company PDVSA, in Caracas, on Feb. 12, 2016.

Venezuela’s 6,000-percent gas price hike has a global origin

Economics
A customer holds a nozzle to fill up his tank in a gasoline station in Nice December 5, 2014.

How do low oil prices affect life where you live?

Economics
A man works on the engine of his car, as motorists wait for fuel at a gas station in Abuja.

In oil-rich Nigeria, just getting a tank of gas is an all-day endeavor

Business
Folorunsho Alakija

Sorry, Oprah. You’re not No. 1 anymore.

Economics
Opponents of the Keystone XL oil pipeline rally in front of the White House on February 24, 2015, the day President Barack Obama vetoed a bill circumventing administration review of the project and mandating its construction.

President Obama’s veto isn’t the end of the Keystone XL story

Environment

President Obama vetoed a bill that would approve construction of the Keystone XL pipeline, but that still doesn’t mean the project is officially dead. But with collapsed oil prices and a world moving away from fossil fuels, would Keystone’s builders eventually regret it if they do win approval?

A general view of the Baiji oil refinery, Iraq's largest, in 2009. Today it's being held — barely — by Iraqi forces against ISIS fighters.

As the US bombs ISIS oil in Syria, militants lay siege to Iraq’s biggest refinery

Conflict

ISIS fighters surrounded Iraq’s largest refinery in June, but Iraqi troops have kept control of this key oil facility for three months — even securing a visit by the country’s new oil minister. Taking over the refinery would be a huge boost for the militant group as the US bombs its oil facilities in Syria.

Blue jerry cans, usually used by smugglers ferrying oil from Syria to Turkey, are stacked for sale in front of a shop in the Turkish border town of Hacipasa.

ISIS is selling cheap oil to its enemies — from Syria’s government to the Kurds

Conflict

ISIS is funding its war by selling oil from the fields it controls in Iraq and Syria, to the tune of millions of dollars. Strangely enough, the enemies it is fighting are some of the main customers. That complicates the US goal of crippling the ISIS war machine.

Gas flares at the Suncor Oil Sands Mining Site.

The view over Alberta’s tar sands shows booming wealth — and environmental destruction

Environment

A trillion dollars’ worth of heavy crude oil has attracted the world’s oil titans to western Canada — and they’re making a mess. The World and GlobalPost’s GroundTruth Project head to the skies for a look at the sweeping impact of oil extraction from the Alberta Tar Sands.A trillion dollars’ worth of heavy crude oil has attracted the world’s oil titans to western Canada — and they’re making a mess. The World and GlobalPost’s GroundTruth Project head to the skies for a look at the sweeping impact of oil extraction from the Alberta Tar Sands.