Oil

Juli Niemann, analyst with Smith Moore and Company, takes a look at today's gas prices and price trends, and predicts the future of what we will pay at the pump.

Stephan Richter, editor-in-chief at TheGlobalist.com, discusses which country has the highest gas price worldwide, and where the U.S. ranks out of 170 markets.

Royal Dutch Shell has given the go-ahead to construct the floating vessel which would cut costs by avoiding pipelines. The "Prelude" will be a natural gas processing plant longer than four football fields and more massive than any aircraft carrier.

Senate Democrats want the Federal Trade Commission to investigate whether the oil industry is fixing gas prices.

Russian state oil company Rosneft is dropping out of a deal with BP, leaving BP's investors concerned over the company's leadership.

International sanctions aimed by Muammar Gaddafi are blocking the shipment of oil held by rebels from east Libya.

It's depressing standing next to the pump watching the dollar figure climb higher and higher for less and less gas. But one professor explains why he thinks $5 a gallon will be less shocking for consumers than $4 a gallon.

With much of the country paying more that $4 a gallon for gas, Senate Democrats and Republicans are squaring off over whether to cut tax credits for oil companies.

Oil company executives will come before the Senate Finance Committee tomorrow to defend the tax breaks their companies receive from the government. We get a preview of what's to come.

Mississippi floodwaters are heading south to Louisiana. That's home to more than 10 percent of the nation's refining capacity.