Drilling for oil has been going on in the US for over 150 years. Across the country we have bored millions of holes in the ground to pump the liquid gold that has fueled the country's energy appetite.

BP’s Kaskida project would use high-pressure technology to extract up to 80,000 barrels of oil per day. A high-profile BP plan to drill for oil deep underwater in the Gulf of Mexico moved a step ...

The new law allows for yearly permitting of up to 2,000 new oil wells each year for the next decade, marking a major shift ...

Expertise and opinions of authors published by ForbesBooks. Imprint operated under license. When someone is new to the oil industry, they may picture fields full of rigs, spurts of black coming out of ...

In the heart of China’s Taklimakan Desert, a remote stretch of arid land in Xinjiang, an ultra-deep borehole is descending farther into the Earth than any drill in the nation’s history. Launched in ...

The Trump administration is eying the possibility of oil leasing in Arctic Ocean areas more than 200 miles from shore, an area where U.S. territorial rights are unclear. Information about the Trump ...

President Trump posted two things on his social media platform this morning: One calling for “everyone” to “keep oil prices down” and another calling on the Department of Energy to “drill, baby, drill ...

Just 20 days earlier, the Deepwater Horizon oil rig had exploded, killing 11 people and igniting one of the worst ...

FILE - A worker removes oil from the sand at Refugio State Beach, north of Goleta, Calif., May 21, 2015. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File) FILE - A worker removes oil from the sand at Refugio State Beach, ...

Nigeria's Petroleum Minister states no local firms have deep offshore drilling capacity, citing high costs and the need to ...