(Bloomberg) --Equinor ASA will make a $1.8 billion impairment on its Mariner field after slashing reserve estimates for the U.K. North Sea oil deposit. The Norwegian company cut total recoverable reserves to about 180 million barrels from a previous estimate of 275 million barrels, it said on Wednesday. The revision is linked to an updated inter...

(Bloomberg) --Environmental activists in Argentina are trying to prevent new oil exploration in the resource-rich South American nation just days after forcing a governor in Patagonia to reverse course on silver mining. The government has been lobbying the case for drillers to search for oil in the Atlantic Ocean ever since protests last week in...