More than 100 Iraqi lawmakers have signed a request to summon the oil minister for a parliamentary grilling, deputies said on Wednesday.

”Neither the Constitution nor our people will allow any violation of our sovereignty”, says Hussain al-Shahristani, Iraq’s Oil Minister.

Ministers of the Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (Opec) on Wednesday agreed to keep oil output steady and said record high prices had been driven by factors…

Opec is widely expected to resist consumer calls for more oil when it meets on Friday, worried by a slowing United States economy and the onset of seasonally lower demand in the…

Opec was meeting on Tuesday to consider a modest rise in oil output proposed by Saudi Arabia and other Gulf Arab states in a gesture to consumers worried by the economic impact…