Oil prices

Low oil prices affect all producer nations. Each has different vulnerabilities.

Companies are using less oil to make and ship things. As consumers curtail travel, they use less oil, too.

There was talk that OPEC and Russia might together cut the world's supply of oil by one million barrels a day.

Nervous traders are selling oil contracts first and asking questions later.

How long will lower oil prices persist?

Some analysts say Iran’s most likely initial target for retaliation? Oil facilities in Iraq.

Some energy companies are questioning whether they can wait out the current dip in prices.

Members of the OPEC coalition of oil producers meet tomorrow in Vienna to discuss an excess of oil supply. The group will be joined by Russia on Friday for further talks. That combined group, known as OPEC-Plus, previously agreed to reduce production in order to keep prices up. Now, there’s too much oil with nowhere […]

A string of recent oil tanker attacks is leading the industry to take extra precautions and raise shipping and insurance rates.

We break down the numbers behind a barrel of oil with Amelie Carlton of Rice University.