Oil

The Interior Department announced a second sale of 80 million acres of the Gulf, set for March. The sales stop at the Florida-Alabama state line.

An administrative law judge in Florida has heard arguments from Clearwater Land & Minerals Fla. and Apalachicola Riverkeeper regarding a plan to drill for oil and gas in rural Northwest Florida.

Mexico has sent nearly half a million barrels of crude oil and diesel in just a span of days, oil shipment data shows. It comes as Cuba is roiled by blackouts and a deepening energy crisis.

Government officials tried to reassure the public that power would be broadly restored over the weekend but acknowledged they could not be sure.

Guyana is poised to become the fourth-largest offshore oil producer in the world, placing it ahead of Qatar, the United States, Mexico and Norway.

Authorities in Venezuela have charged with corruption a businessman who is a fugitive in a separate U.S. money laundering case targeting a top ally of President Nicolás Maduro.

The U.N.'s World Court in the Hague has sided with Guyana's request for a ruling on its 124-year-old border dispute with Venezuela — which involves a lot of oil.

The new representative of Venezuela’s opposition in the U.S. is urging the Biden administration to start relaxing crippling oil sanctions on Nicolas Maduro’s government or risk seeing the socialist-run country turn into another Cuba with Washington scapegoated for increasing authoritarianism and economic hardships.

Dozens of obscure brokers are at the center of a new crackdown in Venezuela on corruption in the state-run oil industry that has government insiders scurrying for cover.

Venezuela’s attorney general says 21 people, including senior officials in President Nicolás Maduro's government and business leaders, have been arrested in connection with a corruption scheme involving international oil sales.

Exxon earned nearly $56 billion in profit last year, the biggest annual profit any Western oil company has ever seen. Chevron set its own record with $35 billion in profit.

Exxon's climate research decades back painted an accurate picture of global warming, according to a new scientific paper. Still, the oil company continued climate-denying policy efforts.