Defragging Transformation

The biggest company in America is now ExxonMobil ... This article gives you some insight into how they got that way and what they have to deal with in that position. The rest of the Fortune 500 are listed here .

Whereas most news talks about the rising cost of oil & gas as a problem, this article in Wired magazine talks about what the potential benefits might come out of it or be coming out of it. This also has a lot of good, short (one paragraph) briefings on the various emerging technologies associated with the industry, including things like tar sands (aka "oil sands") and oil shale .