Energy stocks have started 2026 strongly, with the S&P 500 Energy sector up 7.5% year-to-date, driven again by refiners.

Oil refineries continue as normal in Venezuela in spite of political turmoil. (AP/ Matias Delacroix) Copyright 2026 The ...

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuela’s acting President Delcy Rodriguez used her first state of the union address on Thursday ...

Less than two weeks after a U.S. military operation captured former President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, and as his ...

Venezuela has the largest share of oil reserves in the world but hasn't been producing or refining it. See the charts.

U.S. forces in the Caribbean Sea have seized another sanctioned oil tanker the Trump administration says has ties to ...

Trump vows to tap Venezuela’s oil, but political and investment hurdles mean effects on U.S. gas prices will be slow to ...

Rockefeller didn't build his fortune by finding more oil than anyone else. Oil was everywhere. Any idiot with a shovel and a dream could find oil. Pennsylvania was lousy with wildcatters, all of them ...

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President Trump's Venezuelan oil imports serve U.S. energy strategy by optimizing Gulf Coast refineries designed for heavy ...