Oil

An explosion and fire tore through part of a Southern California oil refinery, shattering both a four-story structure and the peace of people whose nearby homes shook from the blast.

The first nationwide strike at U.S. oil refineries since 1980 is spreading to two BP plants in the Midwest.

Four workers at an oil refinery in southeast Kansas were burned Tuesday in an early morning fire, the Texas company said.

Stock market volatility has fueled growing doubts that the Fed can raise interest rates as fast as central bank policy makers had forecasted last month.

While Americans have cheered tumbling prices at the pump, the companies that work the fields that draw the oil that eventually becomes gasoline have been caught in a vicious price squeeze.

Data showing the U.S. economy grew more slowly than economists expected during the first three months of the year pushed oil prices mildly lower Friday.

T. Boone Pickens says he is not worried about the impact of China and Greece on oil.

Maybe it was appropriate that his last message to his subjects surrounded oil. Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah bin Abdul-Aziz died after a long bout with pneumonia, giving oil a boost even in the face of a soaring dollar and a historic step by the European Central Bank to move towards quantitative easing.

The chief executive of French oil major Total, Christophe de Margerie, was killed when his private jet collided with a snow plow as it was taking off from Moscow's Vnukovo airport on Monday night.

Few geopolitical weapons can undo despots or authoritarian government quite like an oil price plunge. Case in point: The Soviet Union, where power increased when oil and gas prices rose.

Nelson Bunker Hunt, the Texas oilman once considered the world's richest man before his fortunes were undone by Muammar Gaddafi and his own epic overreaching in the silver market, died on Tuesday at age 88.

OPEC agreed to renew its oil production cap of 30 million barrels a day for the first half of 2014, as oil prices remain well above the cartel’s threshold.

The company agreed to sell a stake in an East Africa natural-gas field to a subsidiary of India’s Oil & Natural Gas Corp. for $2.64B in cash.

Commodity traders relying on weekly government energy stats will fly blind as the fiscal impasse in Washington lingers.

Chevron's third-quarter earnings were down 5.8%, as lower refining margins dampened the company’s downstream profits.

Egypt may not be a big energy producer, but disruptions to the country's key energy transit routes could have wide ripple effects.

The company, which will include some transportation assets of refining and marketing company Phillips 66, plans an IPO of up to $315 million.

The U.S. shale oil boom will likely cut into OPEC’s share of the world market in 2014 even as world demand grows at its fastest clip in four years.

Oil prices jumped 3% on Monday after China moved to boost its slowing economy and Saudi Arabia pledged to work with other crude producers to limit market volatility, developments that fed hopes the oil selloff would end.