InvestmentsTop Global NewsMarketsReal Estate North American oil company bankruptcies jump in 2019: report By financialnews_rlv83x - January 22, 2020 0 189 The number of oil company bankruptcies rose 50per cent in 2019 over the previous year, as a slide in prices continued to shake producers in the United States and Canada, Dallas law firm Haynes and Boone said in a report released on Wednesday.