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Leaders of Exxon Mobil, Chevron and four other companies testified about gas prices before a House committee on Wednesday. WASHINGTON -- Amid a swirl of partisan finger-pointing on who is [...]

The ruling is the latest episode in a long legal battle over the alleged dumping of oil in the Amazon region of Ecuador from the 1960s to the 1990s by [...]

LABOR 9.3 Million Job Openings Are Record, Survey Finds Job openings surged to record levels in April, the latest evidence that businesses are struggling to hire workers. American employers had [...]

But it will still take days for gas stations in the Southeast to restock after panic buying depleted their supplies. HOUSTON -- The Colonial Pipeline, which delivers nearly half the [...]

The payment clears the way for gas to begin flowing again, but it risks emboldening other criminal groups to take American companies hostage by seizing control of their computers. WASHINGTON [...]

While drivers scrambled for fuel, Colonial Pipeline said supplies would resume flowing from Texas to the East Coast in the coming days. HOUSTON -- Anxious drivers circled from one filling [...]

The national average for a gallon of regular gasoline rose 2 cents on Tuesday, and some airlines began to take small measures in response to the shutdown. HOUSTON -- Panicked [...]

Growing domestic production of oil and gas has led to reduced refining capacity in the Northeast, increasing the reliance on fuel sent from Texas. HOUSTON -- The operator of a [...]

While the impact has been limited so far, some energy analysts warned of possible shortages and higher prices as the suspension continues. HOUSTON -- The operator of the largest petroleum [...]

The operator, Colonial Pipeline, said it had halted systems for its 5,500 miles of pipeline after being hit by a ransomware attack. One of the nation's largest pipelines, which carries [...]

The group, known as the ''Citgo 6,'' has been held on corruption charges. Their release may be a sign that Venezuela would like to improve relations with the Biden administration. [...]

AUTOMOBILES U.S. Investigates Fires In 1.9 Million RAV4s The U.S. government is investigating complaints of engine compartment fires in nearly 1.9 million Toyota RAV4 small S.U.V.s. The National Highway Traffic [...]

CLIMATE Exxon Says It Will ReduceEmissions by 15% by 2025 Exxon Mobil announced on Monday that it would reduce methane and other greenhouse gas emissions from its exploration and production [...]

HOUSTON -- Fixing the damage done by the attack on the Saudi oil processing plant may be the easy part. The hard part will be calming energy markets, where oil [...]

BUENOS AIRES -- A blackout stripped all of mainland Argentina and Uruguay of power early Sunday, affecting tens of millions of people in an electrical failure that officials called unprecedented [...]

HOUSTON -- Anita Hill had some advice for Christine Blasey Ford. First, she should know she is not alone. Second, she need not talk publicly about her decision to open [...]

HOUSTON -- More than a decade ago, Venezuela seized several oil projects from the American oil company ConocoPhillips without compensation. Now, under pressure after ConocoPhillips carried out its own seizures, [...]

HOUSTON -- ConocoPhillips won a ruling on Wednesday that says it is entitled to more than $2 billion from Venezuela's state oil company over the country's expropriation of several oil [...]

HOUSTON -- A cyberattack on a shared data network forced four of the nation's natural-gas pipeline operators to temporarily shut down computer communications with their customers over the last week. [...]

In August, a petrochemical company with a plant in Saudi Arabia was hit by a new kind of cyberassault. The attack was not designed to simply destroy data or shut [...]

CARACAS, Venezuela -- The administration of President Nicolás Maduro called it a necessary move to ferret out ''putrid'' corruption and end impunity. Outside the government, however, many observers saw it [...]

Just two weeks ago, Saudi Arabia gathered the global business elite in Riyadh, promising a new age for the oil-rich kingdom as it sought to court overseas money and investment. [...]

CROSBY, Tex. -- Residents have returned to their homes here in the shadow of the Arkema chemical plant now that the fires at the plant are out and the immediate [...]

HOUSTON -- Twenty years ago, as Rex W. Tillerson was rising through the ranks at Exxon, he was charged with negotiating with the government of Yemen to build a natural [...]

HOUSTON -- The Securities and Exchange Commission has requested information from Exxon Mobil on the company's longstanding policy of not writing down the value of oil reserves, as other energy [...]

BP and the Norwegian oil company Statoil announced on Monday that they were withdrawing their employees from two of Algeria's largest natural gas fields after Islamic terrorists staged the second [...]

Byline: CLIFFORD KRAUSS HOUSTON -- Aubrey McClendon was the face of the nation's natural gas boom, a swashbuckling innovator who pioneered a shale revolution. He built a fortune as head [...]

HOUSTON -- The Justice Department announced Tuesday night that it had charged Aubrey K. McClendon, an Oklahoma wildcatter who turbocharged the shale revolution by buying up gas fields across the [...]

Byline: CLIFFORD KRAUSS HOUSTON -- The opening of an investigation of Exxon Mobil by the New York attorney general's office into the company's record on climate change may well spur [...]

HOUSTON -- The opening of an investigation of Exxon Mobil by the New York attorney general's office into the company's record on climate change may well spur legal inquiries into [...]

The New York attorney general has begun an investigation of Exxon Mobil to determine whether the company lied to the public about the risks of climate change or to investors [...]

Byline: IAN AUSTEN and CLIFFORD KRAUSS The Supreme Court of Canada has ruled that a group of Ecuadoreans can use an Ontario court in an attempt to collect billions of [...]

The Supreme Court of Canada ruled on Friday that a group of Ecuadoreans can use an Ontario court in an attempt to collect billions of dollars from Chevron for environmental [...]

LONDON -- BP's future no longer has a giant cloud ahead. But it will take years, if not decades, for the company to approach its size of five years ago, [...]

NEW ORLEANS -- In the four years since the blowout on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig killed 11 workers and sent millions of barrels of oil gushing into the Gulf [...]

Halliburton, the company contracted by BP to cement the ill-fated Macondo oil well in the Gulf of Mexico, has reached a $1.1 billion settlement with thousands of businesses, individuals and [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDHOUSTON -- A giant Texas oil company, Anadarko Petroleum, has agreed to pay $5.1 billion for a vast environmental cleanup, a sum the Justice Department said was the largest [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDCAIRO -- Libya's transitional Parliament voted on Tuesday to remove its prime minister as his government conceded that despite days of bluster it was powerless to stop a tanker [...]

HOUSTON -- A tanker that had been sitting for three days in a Libyan port controlled by a regional militia has what every refinery in Europe wants: some of the [...]

Since losing a $19 billion judgment in an Ecuadorean court three years ago, Chevron has drawn the condemnation of human rights and environmental activists by refusing to pay anything in [...]

BEIRUT, Lebanon -- Islamist rebels and extremist groups have seized control of most of Syria's oil and gas resources, a rare generator of cash in the country's war-battered economy, and [...]

For two years Chevron has said that a multibillion-dollar judgment in a pollution case against the company in Ecuador was rigged by an American lawyer, Steven R. Donziger, asserting that [...]

Byline: CLIFFORD KRAUSS NEW YORK -- For the last month, Chevron has presented a parade of witnesses against Steven R. Donziger, the freelance lawyer who has been suing the company [...]

For the last month, Chevron has presented a parade of witnesses against Steven R. Donziger, the freelance lawyer who has been suing the company for 20 years over pollution of [...]

HOUSTON -- In the sharpest challenge yet to the surge in flaring of natural gas in the Bakken shale oil field, North Dakota mineral owners this week filed 10 class-action [...]

HOUSTON -- A federal appeals court gave BP a partial victory on Wednesday by ordering a lower court judge to reconsider his interpretation of a settlement with claimants who filed [...]

Two years after local militias overthrew the Libyan dictator Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi, many of those same fighters have brought Libya's critical oil industry to a halt, as a challenge to [...]

HOUSTON -- Halliburton has agreed to plead guilty to destruction of critical evidence after the Gulf of Mexico oil spill in 2010, the Justice Department announced on Thursday. The oil [...]