- The Wall Street Journal: Crude price decline forces major oil companies to shrink
- The Associated Press: Lower crude prices threaten oil companies, communities
- San Francisco Chronicle: Industry spends $7.7M to defeat fracking bans in Calif. counties
- Bloomberg Businessweek: Oil prices to recover next year, Halliburton exec says
- Bloomberg Businessweek: U.S. shale boom transforming global oil flow amid Middle East conflict