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OPEC’s slipping grasp on the world’s oil market At OPEC’s home base in Vienna last week, Saudi Arabia’s powerful oil minister, Ali al-Naimi, played down the impact of the light, sweet crude that is gushing in record volumes from beneath North Dakota...

Chelsea Manning and the Deepwater Horizon Killings by Greg Palast - Truthdig The military whistleblower’s 2010 Wikileaks dump included information that could have saved the 11 BP workers who died that spring in the Gulf of Mexico oil rig disaster....

A major fire has broken out on an offshore oil platform in Azerbaijan’s waters. While no official casualty count was immediately available, an independent report indicated that the disaster claimed 32 lives. The ongoing rescue operation is hampered...

A major fire has broken out on an offshore oil platform in Azerbaijan's waters. While no official casualty count was immediately available, an independent report indicated that the disaster claimed 32 lives. The ongoing rescue operation is hampered...

Rescuers continue to search for 29 missing oil platform workers who had evacuated when an offshore rig in the Caspian Sea caught fire. Two workers have been confirmed killed in the mishap. Efforts to locate the missing offshore oil workers continued...