Refiners on the Gulf Coast are shunning crude oil cargos from Mexico that feature an excessively high water content that makes the feedstock unfit for the production of gasoline and diesel fuel ...

The number of armed attacks off Mexico’s east coast is now ten ... many more unmanned drilling rigs clustered in the southern Gulf of Mexico, employ thousands of oil industry workers.

The 21st century may well be the new age of privateers — armed commercial sailors fighting pirates, terrorists and cartel criminals threatening offshore oil rigs. Why hire private naval security?

Meanwhile, Permian-quality crude at the Magellan East Houston (MEH) terminal, the main price assessment point along the Gulf Coast ... Canadian light sweet oil, said Energy Aspects analyst ...