President Trump ordered a “total and complete blockade” of all oil tankers heading to and leaving Venezuela while labeling the country a “foreign terrorist organization” and demanding the regime ...

President Donald Trump on Tuesday ordered a total blockade of oil tankers entering or leaving Venezuela, declaring the Nicolás Maduro regime a foreign terrorist organization and accusing it of using ...

Both West Texas Intermediate crude and the key benchmark for international oil prices are in position to close at the lowest levels in nearly five years. Renewed hopes for a cease-fire between Russia ...

Venezuela's President Nicolás Maduro has accused the United States of “kidnapping” crew members after the seizure of an oil tanker, calling the act a threat not only to his country, but to global ...

2:47 p.m. Dec. 12, 2025: An earlier version of this story said California law defines “exhausted wells” as those that have yielded an average daily production of two barrels of oil or less. This ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. L.A. County is suing four oil companies for allegedly failing to plug at least 227 idle wells in the Inglewood Oil ...

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said the U.S. plans to take control of the oil currently on a tanker off the coast of Venezuela that was seized by U.S. forces Wednesday. Trump "talks a ...

LOS ANGELES (CNS) -- Los Angeles County filed an environmental lawsuit Wednesday against oil and gas well operators to compel them to address what lawyers called dangers to human health and the ...

Four oil and gas companies that develop heavy oil from the Inglewood oil field were sued Wednesday after being accused of failing to address health and environmental concerns for those who live in the ...

The oil market is grappling with whether sanctioned Russian and Iranian cargoes should still be counted as supply. This may explain why oil prices have been slow to react to a huge glut that is ...