The Commodity Futures Trading Commission probe is focused on whether aspects of the strategy that the Russian government pursued last month with other members of the OPEC+ coalition leaked out to market participants ahead of time

The original agreement provided for Hilcorp to pay $4.0 billion near-term and $1.6 billion through an earnout thereafter.

U.S. Rig Count is down 64 rigs from last week to 465, Canada Rig Count is down 4 rigs from last week to 26

Brent was down 73 cents, or 3.42%, at $20.60 per barrel, WTI fell by 84 cents, or 5.09%, to $15.66 a barrel

Energy prices overall (which also include natural gas and coal) are expected to average 40 percent lower in 2020 but see a sizeable rebound in 2021.

the State of Kuwait sensing a responsibility for responding to market conditions has already decreased some of its supplies to the international markets,

Brent was up $1.60, or 7.8%, at $21.97 per barrel, WTI rose $1.74, or 12.6%, at $15.52 a barrel.

The U.S. oil industry was already struggling to satisfy investors unhappy with weak returns, even as the United States surged to become the world’s largest oil producer in the last few years.

The Argentinian government plans to set a minimum oil reference price for local producers at US$45/bbl,

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Brent crude touched $15.98 a barrel, WTI was down 51 cents, or 4.4%, at $11.06 a barrel.

Monday's unprecedented meltdown in oil prices, with front-month NYMEX WTI futures diving deep into negative territory as Tuesday's expiry of the May contract neared, was the exclamation point on what many OPEC+ delegates have described as an alarming and depressing ride.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 631.56 points, or 2.67%, to 23,018.88, the S&P 500 lost 86.6 points, or 3.07%, to 2,736.56 and the Nasdaq Composite dropped 297.50 points, or 3.48%, to 8,263.23.

MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan fell as much as 1% before erasing losses to last stand at 0.4% higher while Japan's Nikkei slumped 0.7%.