Gagging order throws light on Trafigura

Oil trader brings attention to its activities with its attempts to silence the Guardian

World could pass ‘peak oil’ within the next decade

‘Significant’ risk of reserves going into terminal decline before 2020

The Libyan gold rush and the reasons behind it

Searching for oil in the Libyan desert - the story behind the headlines of Lockerbie bomber Megrahi's release

BP in ‘giant’ new oil strike

The oil major has made a potentially huge oil discovery in its fields in the Gulf of Mexico

Shell quarterly profits slide

The oil major's second quarter profits slumped by 70 per cent as the industry suffered a perfect storm

BP profits slump on oil price fall

The oil major's earnings fall 53 per cent from the year before, with the price of oil well off its 2008 highs

Rogue trader pushes up oil price

A dealer at a London brokerage has caused a spike of $2 in the price of crude oil, losing his firm $10m

Oil giant BP sees its quarterly profits plunge

Profits at the multinational slumped in the wake of the decline in oil prices over the past year

Greenland: northern rights

After 300 years of Danish rule, Greenland wants to go it alone as global warming and oil and gas help the economy