Saudi Arabia, the world’s top oil exporter and OPEC's largest producer, has influenced the oil market and oil flows since the middle of the 20th century.

Oil prices jumped to five-month highs this week, pushed higher by a bullish cocktail of supply outages, geopolitical unrest and a sputtering shale sector.

Nuclear may actually be the safest form of power production that we have.

Global oil and gas companies are increasingly facing an uphill battle as global warming policies are taking their toll.

By 2030, oil demand could hit a peak and then enter decline.

“sleepwalking into a tsunami of oversupply”

Industry leaders now appear to be positive that growth can be achieved after several difficult years.

The Saudis have the two key ingredients to continue pumping oil till kingdom come—huge reserves and low production costs.

How this shakes out is anybody's guess, but at a minimum, the explosion in DUCs over the past two years complicates oil production forecasts for this year.

To cut and push up prices or not to cut and preserve market share.

After declining by more than 20 percent from the October peak, oil prices are showing some signs that they have now bottomed out.

To outward appearances, the U.S. oil and gas industry is in the midst of a decade-long boom, however, "America's fracking boom has been a world-class bust."