Energy companies that need to borrow to keep drilling could be hurt by low prices

Midterms are coming, oil is down and Taylor Swift is up. Let's do the numbers.

It's hard to know where prices will be a year from now

The dip in oil prices is looking like a sustained drop. What are the consequences?

State agencies find that industry offers higher salaries to new college graduates.

Residents of a Texas town are apprehensive about sludge pits planned in their community.

Fracking for oil is expensive, so at some point falling prices will make some wells unprofitable.

Read a passage from Paul Barrett's book about one lawyer's face-off with oil executives.

Some oil boomtown pickup truck owners make a statement by "rolling coal."

Oil companies spend millions for the right to drill in the Gulf of Mexico.