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(CNN) A total of 210,000 gallons of oil leaked Thursday from the Keystone pipeline in South Dakota, the pipeline's operator, TransCanada, said. Crews shut down the pipeline Thursday morning and officials are investigating the cause of the leak, which occurred about...

(4-Traders) In a few months, Brazil's federal government will start receiving crude oil from a huge field, known as Libra, off the coast of Rio de Janeiro. But the government has no tanker ships to unload oil from the...

(Reuters) Venezuela’s cash-strapped government said its plan to refinance some $60 billion in bonds was successfully underway after a creditors’ meeting in Caracas but a rating agency declared the nation in selective default over missed coupon payments. President Nicolas Maduro’s...

(Bloomberg) Exxon Mobil Corp. is drilling shale wells that stretch farther than the length of New York’s Central Park. The world’s biggest oil explorer by market value recently finished four wells in North Dakota’s Bakken region that extend sideways for...

Hess Corporation (NYSE: HES), a 30 percent stakeholder in the Stabroek Block offshore Guyana, said on Monday that production has been halted at several locations resulting from a fire at the Shell Enchilada platform in the Gulf of Mexico. Shell advised in a statement on Nov....

(Bloomberg) A former CEO of oil-services company SBM Offshore NV pleaded guilty Thursday to charges related to the Petrobras corruption scandal in Brazil as the U.S. steps up its pursuit of individuals over corporate misdeeds. ExxonMobil Guyana closely studying Petrobras corruption case...

(Bloomberg) -- Venezuela is set to pump the least oil in almost three decades, just when it needs petrodollars the most. Output is expected to slump to 1.84 million barrels a day next year, the lowest compared with official government...

(Reuters) - China Energy Investment Corp, the world's largest power company by asset value, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to invest $83.7 billion in shale gas, power and chemical projects in West Virginia, the U.S state said...

(Reuters) - Chevron Canada, a unit of global oil major Chevron Corp, is forging ahead with its first ever Canadian shale play development, targeting the East Kaybob region of central Alberta's Duvernay formation. The decision, announced by the company on...

The decision by the United States government this week to withdraw from the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) will have no impact on ExxonMobil’s participation in the anti-corruption body and engagement in implementation activities in countries outside of the...