The U.S. is up, OPEC is down.

Lower crude prices usually mean lower gas prices — but pressures on refineries, including drone attacks on Russian refineries, mean that consumers might not see as much benefit.

Leaders of Russia, China and India met on Monday to show a unified front in light of U.S. trade policies

The United States exported a record 31 quadrillion BTUs of energy last year, about 30% of total domestic energy production.

Conditions favor Gulf Coast and Midwestern refineries over those based on the East and West coasts.

Oil production looks like it could be plateauing. Natural gas, not so much.

There are thousands of abandoned wells across the country, and governments are often forced to pick up the cost of plugging them.

Western sanctions on oil from places like Iran, Russia, and Venezuela have caused a growing number of oil tankers to shut off the tracking system that could alert authorities of their movements.

The expansion has boosted U.S. exports and brought down energy costs here at home.

It’s an international love story of sorts, featuring “thick, heavy, goopy crude oil.”