( October 7, 2026, 12:35 PM EDT) -- SANTA FE, N.M. — Two oil trading companies and one trader filed an amended putative class action complaint against several independent shale oil producers as part of multidistrict litigation against an alleged cartel of oil companies accused of conspiring to fix the prices of fracked shale oil and West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude oil in “collusive orchestration” with the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) in violation of federal antitrust laws....