Today, the U.S. District Court in New York rejected the Lago Agrio plaintiffs' attempt to avoid a ruling on the validity of their fraudulent judgment and made important factual findings about the plaintiffs' fraud and misconduct.

7/31/2012 9:19 PM ET (RTTNews) - The Australian stock market is trading lower on Wednesday, tracking the negative lead overnight from Wall Street, as investors await cues from the much anticipated European Central Bank and Federal Reserve policy ...

Gasoline in San Francisco gained for a fourth day after Valero Energy Corp. (VLO) said a process unit at the Benicia refinery in Northern California will remain shut until the middle of August.

"You pay a high price for a cheery consensus." Warren Buffett's words ring particularly true in the energy sector where market participants will gladly pay up substantially for integrated oil companies with less ambiguity in future short-term earnings ...

For some time I have been extolling the virtues of Colombia's Ecopetrol (EC) as the preferred investment for investors seeking exposure to Latin American oil.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) - Shell Oil Co. is downsizing its plan for off-shore drilling in the Arctic this year amid delays completing a spill containment barge required by the federal government, a spokesman said Tuesday.

OAO Rosneft Oil Company (RNFTF.PK), the Kremlin's main national oil company [NOC], is the leader of Russia's petroleum industry, and ranks among the world's top publicly traded oil and gas companies.

There wasn't much to like about BP's (NYSE:BP) second-quarter report. Earnings plunged by 96% to a loss of $1.39 billion and revenues fell from $104 billion to $95 billion.

The table below ranks indicated dividend yields of companies in the Standard & Poor's 500 Index by industry as of today. The yield is calculated by taking the latest declared dividend, annualized and divided by the stock price.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Bernstein Research on Tuesday wrote that Apple Inc (AAPL.O) may be considering a stock split, a move that could lead to the pricy company's inclusion in the Dow Jones Industrial Average .