Scottish independence advocates are banking on the country's oil resources.

The extremist group ISIS finances itself in part by selling oil on the black market

Ultralight oil made by fracking is seeping through cracks in the U.S. ban on oil exports.

100,000 barrels a day are stolen from Nigerian oil pipelines.

Trains increasingly carry crude from oil fields in the middle of the U.S. to refineries on the coasts.

The boom in U.S. oil production has disrupted global oil’s pecking order and caused fractures inside the once all-powerful OPEC.

After rumors that the U.S. and U.K. might release crude oil stock prices were found untrue — at least for now — prices are climbing back up.

Economist Ellen Zentner discusses what a drop in crude oil prices could mean for consumers, and about the rise in home remodeling in the U.S.