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Iran's Minister of Petroleum Rostam Ghasemi, center, gestures as he speaks to journalists prior to the start of the meeting of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, OPEC, at their headquarters in Vienna, Austria, on Thursday, June 14, 2012. The meeting of the 12 oil ministers of the OPEC focuses on price and production targets.

Middle East Online Sat 20 Apr 2013
Iran sees no need for OPEC emergency meeting over drop in prices
TEHRAN - Iran sees no need for an emergency meeting of the oil cartel OPEC over a recent drop in crude prices before the producers' annual session at the end of May, Oil... (photo: AP / Ronald Zak)
Iran OPEC Oil Photos Wikipedia: Petroleum industry in Iran

Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange Thursday, July 23, 2009 in New York.

The New York Times Fri 12 Apr 2013
Stocks End a Four-Day Advance as Energy Slides
NEW YORK (AP) — A four-day advance came to an end on Wall Street as falling commodity prices brought down the stocks of energy and mining companies. The Dow Jones... (photo: AP / Mary Altaffer)
Energy Photos Stock Exchange Wall Street Wikipedia: Dow Jones Industrial Average

In this Feb. 28, 2012 photo, a pair of specialists work at heir post on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Markets were resilient Thursday, March 1, 2012, despite ongoing concerns that the U.S. Federal Reserve may be turning a bit more hawkish and figures in Europe showing an unappetizing brew of rising unemployment and inflation

The State Fri 12 Apr 2013
A weak start on Wall Street; energy stocks slide
NEW YORK — Energy companies led the stock market lower Friday as the price of oil sank 2 percent. Major indexes were still on track to end the week with strong... (photo: AP / Richard Drew)
Market Photos Stock Exchange Wall Street Wikipedia: Wall Street

Residents wait in line to vote for presidential elections at a polling station in the Petare neighborhood in Caracas, Venezuela, Sunday, Oct. 7, 2012. President Hugo Chavez is running against opposition candidate Henrique Capriles.

Huffington Post Thu 14 Mar 2013
Venezuela Says U.S. Plans To Kill Capriles, Maduro Accused Of Homophobic Slur
By Daniel Wallis and Andrew Cawthorne CARACAS, March 13 (Reuters) - Venezuela's acting president said on Wednesday that "far right" figures in the United States were... (photo: AP / Sharon Steinmann)
Death Plot Henrique Capriles Photos Venezuela Wikipedia: Henrique Capriles Radonski Acting Caracas Photos President Venezuela

A section of Tehran's oil refinery is seen, Iran, Saturday, Nov. 17, 2007. Iran's president said Saturday that the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries is "under heavy economic and political pressures" and that the oil prices are below its real value, state-run-news agency reported. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad made his remarks prior to his trip to Bahrain and Saudi Arabia where he is due to attend the OPEC summ

Reuters Thu 14 Mar 2013
U.S. extends waivers on Iran sanctions to 11 countries
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States extended 180-day waivers on Iran sanctions to Japan and 10 European Union nations in exchange for their cutting purchases of the... (photo: AP / Vahid Salemi)
Iran Oil Embargo Photos United States Wikipedia: Sanctions against Iran

Khaled al Otaiby, an official of the Saudi oil company Aramco watches progress at a rig at the al-Howta oil field near Howta, Saudi Arabia, on Feb. 26, 1997. Energy is the big strand in a web of U.S.-Saudi economic ties that has grown in the six years since an American-led army rolled back Iraqi aggression in the Persian Gulf. (AP Photo/John Moore)hg3

Star Tribune Fri 30 Nov 2012
A new world of American energy independence
The United States is soon to be awash in oil and natural gas, positively brimming with the stuff whose scarcity and unreliability of supply has plagued us since the end... (photo: AP / John Moore)
Energy Photos Politics United States Wikipedia: United States energy independence World

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A Chevron flag flies over the Chevron refinery Monday, April 21, 2008, in Richmond, Calif. Rising gasoline prices tightened the squeeze on drivers Monday, jumping to an average $3.50 a gallon at filling stations across the coun

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In this May 1, 2008, file photo, a customer pumps gas at an Exxon station in Middleton, Mass.

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Workers leave the INEOS refinery as they start the two-day walkout by up to 1,200 workers at the site in protest at plans to close a final pension salary scheme to new workers, which has closed the Forties pipeline, which brings in 700,000 barrels of oil a day from the North Sea, in Grangemouth, Scotland, Sunday April. 27, 2008.

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$This May 22, 2009 picture shows John Fenton, a farmer who lives near Pavillion in central Wyoming, near a tank used in natural gas extraction, in background. Fenton and some of his neighbors blame hydraulic fracturing, or "fracking," a common technique used in drilling new oil and gas wells, for fouling their well water.$