The Exxon Valdez grounding wasn't just one mistake but a cascade of small failures that lined up at exactly the wrong moment.

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For the most part, 2026 has been a very good year for oil giants and the not-so-giant oil companies. Oil prices are up substantially since the start of the year: 67% for light sweet crude, the ...

Exxon Mobil (XOM) and Chevron (CVX) shares maintain 20% or greater year-to-date gains, though a fading one-month trajectory is what has traders doubting the long oil trade. The geopolitical premium ...

Iran’s closure of the Strait of Hormuz has sent crude prices soaring, but while most investors reflexively buy integrated oil majors like Exxon or Chevron, Texas Pacific Land (TPL) offers a purer play ...

Exxon Mobil (XOM) has unveiled proposals to spend as much as $24B in a pair of long-stalled deepwater oil projects offshore Nigeria, UpstreamOnline.com reported Monday. Exxon's (XOM) top deepwater ...

An oil spill has contaminated 933 kilometers (about 580 miles) of shoreline along the western Gulf of Mexico, impacting the Mexican states of Veracruz, Tamaulipas, Campeche and Tabasco in eastern ...

Reporter Ashley Grams joined WCCO in the summer of 2025. She's excited to be in Minnesota after spending much of her life on the West Coast. A barge spilled up to 3,500 gallons of crude corn oil into ...

An oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico that soiled beaches, killed wildlife and sparked outrage from environmental groups was caused by a leaky pipeline owned by state oil company Petroleos Mexicanos, the ...

LONDON/HOUSTON, April 16 (Reuters) - Exxon ‌Mobil (XOM.N), opens new tab has withdrawn an offer to sell two initial cargoes of liquefied natural gas from its Golden Pass export plant in Texas that's ...

Two private citizens are alleging that the sale of so-called "stripper wells" was calculated to evade cleanup costs.

In an interview with CNN, Energy Secretary Chris Wright doubled down on his belief that gas prices will go down, but he couldn’t estimate when that would happen. Photo: Nathan Howard/Reuters ...