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A general view of Mes Aynak valley is seen some 25 miles southwest of Kabul, Afghanistan, March 2, 2022. Buildings on top are offices of Chinese mining company MCC that won the contract to exploit the world's second-largest copper mine.
Afghanistan
A Chinese company strikes a deal with the Taliban to extract oil from Afghanistan
After the discovery of commercial quantities of oil in 2006, Hoima, Uganda, is being referred to as “Oil City,” Hoima, Uganda, November 2022.
Energy
Why African countries like Uganda are investing in fossil fuels
A train passes by Republika Power Plant in town of Pernik, Bulgaria, April 21, 2022. The only nuclear power plant, generating over a third of Bulgaria’s electricity, runs on uranium from Russia.
Ukraine
EU proposes oil ban after bloc’s largest economy drops opposition
Pipes at the landfall facilities of the 'Nord Stream 2' gas pipeline are pictured in Lubmin, northern Germany
Energy
The invasion in Ukraine could mean less reliance on energy from Russia, analyst says
People ride their bicycles at the marina port in Oslo, Norway
Environment
Norway has one of the world’s most ambitious climate change targets. But it’s also a major oil producer and exporter.
An unidentified man walks along oil pipelines belonging to Agip Oil company in Obrikom, Nigeria, Monday, March 6, 2006. 
Books
West African villagers take on an American oil giant in a new novel by Imbolo Mbue
Activists stand behind a large banner
Justice
Ugandan farmers take on French oil giant in game changer case for multinationals
An oil tanker is shown from above with a red deck and being sprayed by water by a second, adjacent boat.
Conflict & Justice
Tanker attacks seen as calibrated but risky Iranian response to US sanctions
Jayden Lookinghorse, riding his horse, stands on top of a hill on the Cheyenne River Reservation South Dakota.
Out of spotlight, tribes keep fighting Dakota pipeline
Bits of icebergs can be seen that have broken off the Sawyer Glacier in Alaska, where the effects of climate change are being felt at a higher rate than the Lower 48.
Environment
Alaskan youth sue state government for lack of action against climate change
ANWR porcupine caribou
Economics
Drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is more likely now than ever before
Artillery belonging to Iraqi army are seen southwest of Kirkuk, Iraq, October 17, 2017.
Conflict
Iraq forces take oil fields dashing Kurdish dreams
Oil flows through pipes to the Westridge Marine near Vancouver, BC. A second, much larger pipeline here is part of Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau's plan to increase exports of oil from Alberta's tar sands region. Opponents say that would increase
Environment
This Canadian oil pipeline could cause the next great controversy
Former Exxon Mobil Corp. CEO Rex Tillerson was an outspoken critic of the rule designed to prevent bribery.
Economics
In a victory for the oil industry, Congress makes it easier to pay bribes for drilling rights
Oil facilities at Venezuela's western Maracaibo lake November 5, 2007.
Economics
Rex Tillerson’s long, troubled history in Venezuela
After an extremely warm first half of the year, global surface temperatures were heading for a third-straight record warm year in 2016. This NOAA map from December shows record warm temperatures (red) and record cold (blue) through the first 11 months of
Environment
2016 brought more record temperatures. So what climate course will the US and Trump set in 2017?
Demonstrators against the Dakota Access oil pipeline block a road near North Dakota's Standing Rock Reservation in October. The pipeline would cross historic Native land and pass under the Missouri River, the source of the local water supply.
Environment
It’s not just about a pipeline. Native activists say Dakota battle is their biggest stand in decades.
In a market in Abuja, a vendor named Abba shows me a puny tomato that was selling for 10 times the usual price. Some Nigerians have been calling tomatoes “Buhari’s gold,” after the president.
Development
How a tomato shortage has Nigerians questioning their reliance on oil
Marathon Oil Refinery in Detroit
Blood Oil: Why what you put in your gas tank may be funding terrorism
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Gulf lease protest
Environment
Louisianans rally against new Gulf oil leases
Mississippi Delta aerial view
Environment
Land restoration on the Gulf Coast is showing some progress
Does oil production cause misery?
Conflict
Cursed by oil? Academic says production often leads to misery.
Shell Can't swim sign
Environment
Shell Oil faces a lawsuit in the UK over oil spills in Nigeria
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.
Economics
Venezuela’s 6,000-percent gas price hike has a global origin
Historic lows at Folsom Lake in Northern California.
Environment
Is water the next resource crisis?
Cauliflower
Economics
Forget the canary, in Canada there’s a cauliflower in the coal mine
A customer holds a nozzle to fill up his tank in a gasoline station in Nice December 5, 2014.
Economics
How do low oil prices affect life where you live?
‘The West Wing,’ Powerball Math, Renewing Black America
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Underground Football, Flip-Flopping, Tourism and Terrorism
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Oil Derrick
Business
Why this analyst thinks we could be seeing the beginning of the end of cheap oil
A fighter from Misrata shouts to his comrades as they move to fight Islamic State militants near Sirte.
Conflict
ISIS brings in millions and the US is all but helpless to stop it.
Opponents of the Keystone XL oil pipeline planned to run from the Alberta tas sands to refineries in the US finally got their wish on Friday when president Obama pulled the plug on the project.
Environment
With Keystone down and Exxon under investigation, it’s been a tough week for the oil business
Demonstrators protest against Royal Dutch Shell near the Polar Pioneer oil drilling rig on May 16, 2015, in Seattle.
Environment
$7 billion later, a dry well sends Shell home from the Arctic
Pump jacks
Environment
Fracking in the Bakken comes with a high human cost
"Kayaktivists" demonstrate in Seattle's Elliot Bay against the arrival last month of the Shell's massive Polar Pioneer oil rig, rising behind them above the city's waterfront. Shell is using Seattle as a staging area for its new offshore drilling operatio
Environment
The road to Arctic oil drilling runs through Seattle. People there are trying to block it.
A view of a Baiji oil refinery, 180 km (112 miles) north of Baghdad, February 19, 2008.
Conflict
An Iraqi oil refinery that was too important to destroy has just been destroyed
A man works on the engine of his car, as motorists wait for fuel at a gas station in Abuja.
Business
In oil-rich Nigeria, just getting a tank of gas is an all-day endeavor
Folorunsho Alakija
Economics
Sorry, Oprah. You’re not No. 1 anymore.
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.
Environment
President Obama’s veto isn’t the end of the Keystone XL story
William Rivas drives his own Chevy Malibu as cab. Gas prices are so low in Venezuela that it costs him less than $1 to fill up the tank.
Economics
Venezuela’s 4 cents a gallon gas is set for a major hike
Mourners gather around the grave of Saudi King Abdullah following his burial in Riyadh on Friday.
Global Politics
In a region of turmoil, the new Saudi king promises continuity
A pump jack is seen at sunrise near Bakersfield, California.
Economics
How Saudi Arabia can stop America from producing more fuel
Britain's National Gallerly sells its soul to the villainous "Man from Shell" is this recent guerilla theater presentation by the activist group Art Not Oil. Fossil fuel industry support of cultural institutions has become increasingly controversial in th
Environment
For these activists, oil and art just don’t mix
Houston gas prices
Economics
While the drop in oil prices is a short term boom, there are reasons for concern in the US economy
Russian President Vladimir Putin shakes hands with Turkey's President Tayyip Erdogan after a news conference at the Presidential Palace in Ankara December 1, 2014.
Global Politics
Russia and Turkey’s leaders have similar styles, but an uneasy relationship
Oil tankers in Russia
Business
The decline in oil prices will put the squeeze on Iran and Russia — and give a jolt to American consumers
A salesman stands next to a Hummer for sale at an auto trading center in Shanghai on June 3, 2009.
Economics
The gas-guzzling Hummer makes a comeback as fuel prices plunge
Tar sands oil processing facility
Environment
Big companies are pulling the plug on their projects in Alberta’s tar sands
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.
Conflict
As the US bombs ISIS oil in Syria, militants lay siege to Iraq’s biggest refinery
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.
Conflict
ISIS is selling cheap oil to its enemies — from Syria’s government to the Kurds
oil tanker United Kalavyrta
Business
A ship full of Kurdish oil remains trapped at sea off the coast of Texas
A member of the Kurdish security forces takes up position with his weapon as he guards a section of an oil refinery.
Conflict & Justice
After ISIS advance, Kurds win back important control over northern Iraq’s oil
Gas flares at the Suncor Oil Sands Mining Site.
Environment
The view over Alberta’s tar sands shows booming wealth — and environmental destruction
Alberta tar sands
Environment
Canada approves a new plan for a pipeline to bring oil from Alberta’s tar sands to British Columbia
Smoke rises from a oil refinery in Baiji, north of Baghdad, in this picture taken through the windscreen of a car, June 19, 2014. Iraqi government forces battled Sunni rebels for control of the country's biggest refinery on Thursday as Prime Minister Nuri
Conflict & Justice
The battle is on for one of Iraq’s major oil refineries
Environment
Canada moves to put tougher limits on dangerous oil trains
Vietnam government spokesman Le Hai Binh (C) speaks at a news conference on the deployment of a Chinese oil rig in a part of the disputed South China Sea, in Hanoi May 7, 2014.
Global Politics
Why are China and Vietnam squaring off in the South China Sea?
Vietnam government spokesman Le Hai Binh (C) speaks at a news conference on the deployment of a Chinese oil rig in a part of the disputed South China Sea, in Hanoi May 7, 2014.
Global Politics
Why are China and Vietnam squaring off in the South China Sea?
Gas station in Tehran
Business, Economics and Jobs
In oil-producing Iran, a slight hike in gas prices could cause a jump in discontent
Gas station in Tehran
Business, Economics and Jobs
In oil-producing Iran, a slight hike in gas prices could cause a jump in discontent