Oil industry
Mexico Finally Opens Auction for Private Oil Exploration, But Gets Few Takers
Mexico's government for years touted the eventual opening up of its national oil industry to private money. But in its first gamble, it auctioned off only two out of 14 exploration fields, a disappointing result.
Blood and Oil: Displaced Yazidi Refugees Making a Dangerous Living in Northern Iraq
Sebastian Meyer profiles a family of displaced Yazidis refugees in northern Iraq who make a potentially lethal living running a small oil refinery.
How Big Oil Became the Perfect Fuel for Corruption
The oil industry is changing, with a whole host of new players jumping on board to profit from the dirty money the trade so easily provides.
Is the Keystone Pipeline Irrelevant?
Sneaky moves by the oil industry have probably made the contentious pipeline superfluous.
The $36B Halliburton-Baker Hughes Merger and the Glut Shrinking the Oil Industry
The US shale drilling boom has led to global glut of oil and low prices, and could signal an expensive future.
Hipster Environmentalists Used Rape Alarms to Disrupt an Oil Conference
The group known as the Future broke into the unironically named Oil and Money Conference in London shouting "Oil is fucking our future and we are fighting back!" They're pretty excited about it.
US Congressman Opens Climate Change Denial Conference with Rant Against Water Fluoridation
The elderly crowd at the Mandalay Bay resort in Las Vegas loved it, but lobbyists for the oil and gas industry can't be happy with such a goofy display.
Alberta’s Corporate Curriculum: Reading, Writing, and Bitumen
In Alberta's Ministry of Education's sweeping new rewrite of public school curriculum, the Ministry has included oil sands operators, tech giants, and textbook publishers among their key stakeholders, claiming their involvement will benefit children...