Oil

Nearly 3,000 acres of land in the Wayne National Forest were auctioned off for oil and gas development this week. Critics say it will damage the region’s natural resources, but industry officials feel it will be a boon for the area.

Carlos Gutierrez says he does wonder what will happen to Venezuela, but he said President Nicolas Maduro needed to go.

ConocoPhillips is buying Findlay-based Marathon Oil in an all-stock deal valued at approximately $17.1 billion as energy prices soar and big oil companies reap massive profits.

President Biden met with Colombian President Iván Duque days after senior administration officials made a secret trip to meet with Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro, who has strong ties with Russia.

AAA says the national average is $1.997 per gallon and it's expected to drop further in the coming weeks. In a few places it's less than half that, but most Americans aren't driving much these days.

Stock indexes tumbled so fast Monday that marketwide trading was halted temporarily for the first time since October 1997. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 2,013 points, or nearly 8%.

A series of bills that would increase the penalty for protesting infrastructure projects have come before state legislatures all across the country.One…

President Trump is leaving some U.S. troops in Syria, with the goal of controlling Syria's oil fields. But legal experts say exploiting the oil could amount to pillaging — a war crime.

The move reverses former President Barack Obama's 2015 decision to reject the controversial pipeline.

A federal judge denied a request from the Standing Rock Sioux and Cheyenne River tribes to halt construction on the final piece of the pipeline in North Dakota.