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Oil Industry

Business World

“It’s Like a Burning Theater, and Everyone Is Trying to Get To the Door”

An oral history of the day oil prices went below zero for the first time in trading history.

Jessica Camille Aguirre Vanity Fair May 2020 Permalink

Crime

Cain and Abel and Oil

Greed, drugs, dirty cops, and the bitter sibling rivalry burning up an $800 million Louisiana family dynasty.

Ian Frisch New York Jun 2019 20min Permalink

Business Science

The Rockefellers vs. the Company That Made Them Rockefellers

The family that pioneered the oil industry in America wants to expose what Exxon hid from the public about climate change.

Reeves Wiedeman New York Jan 2018 20min Permalink

World Travel

“I am Here Only for Working”

Conversations with the petroleum brotherhood in the UAE.

William T. Vollmann Harper's Nov 2017 30min Permalink

Business

The Incredible Rise and Final Hours of Fracking King Aubrey McClendon

He made billions. He lost billions. He was fired as CEO of the company he created. And on March 2, just hours after he was accused of rigging oil deals, he died in a one-car crash.

Bryan Gruley, Joe Carroll, Asjylyn Loder Businessweek Mar 2016 15min Permalink

Business World

Oil Is the Cheap Date From Hell

On the parasitic relationship between oil and the stock market.

Peter Coy, Matthew Philips Bloomberg Businessweek Feb 2016 10min Permalink

Business Science

The Wreck of the Kulluk

Three years ago, Shell spent millions to send a colossal oil rig to drill in the remote seas of the Arctic. But the Arctic had other plans.

McKenzie Funk New York Times Magazine Dec 2014 35min Permalink

Science

The Deluge

The impact of the oil and gas booms taking place all over the world, and our future on fossil fuels.

Vince Beiser Pacific Standard Mar 2013 25min Permalink

Science

The Avenging Angel

On the dying city of Port Arthur, Texas, and one man’s fight to save it.

Howie Kahn O Magazine Sep 2011 20min Permalink