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

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 ...

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 ...

This story is part of the Iconic Brands series, a USA TODAY network project showcasing the companies and brands that helped shape the nation's identity, economy and culture. The series celebrates ...

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 ...

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- Crews along the Houston Ship Channel have contained an oil spill that occurred Sunday at the PEMEX Deer Park location, according to a message. Through a message on the ...

Shipping traffic around Belgium's Port of Antwerp has been partially halted because of an oil spill that has spread from one of the port's docks into the river Scheldt. Antwerp harbour typically ...

Oil prices skyrocketed in the first quarter due to the war with Iran. Iran caused significant disruptions to the oil market during the quarter. Damaged facilities and production shut-ins impacted ...

U.S. Oil & Gas giant Exxon Mobil (NYSE:XOM) has signaled that surging oil and gas prices triggered by the conflict with Iran could increase its first-quarter upstream earnings by up to $2.9 billion, ...