But the reality is more nuanced. As is oil itself, which comes as light and heavier crude. Before the fracking boom, the US used to produce the heavy stuff, which its refineries were designed to ...

HOBBS, N.M.—Chip Low’s drive through one of the richest corners of America’s hottest oil field takes him past all the ...

There’s an oil boom going on next door in North Dakota. This drilling boom is motivated by pump higher prices, which make drilling in difficult places profitable. Most of our remaining domestic ...

The Permian Basin, a region spanning west Texas and eastern New Mexico, is the once and future heart of the greatest oil and gas boom in American history, a frenzy of production triggered by the ...

And why should it? It has become the smell of wealth, the sweet odor of Ohio’s first oil boom since the turn of the century. Two Gushers. Ohio was a major oil producer 60 years ago, but its ...

The use of hydraulic fracturing to extract oil and gas from the earth dates back ... alluding primarily to the shale gas boom in the United States and all of the controversy that has accompanied ...

Will Suriname become another oil boom province as neighboring Guyana? Wood Mackenzie hydrocarbons consultants believe it to be possible but exploration efforts have taken longer and the ...

Occidental, the oil giant that has tried to fashion itself as a climate tech leader, is being real clear now about capturing carbon dioxide emissions, which it sees as the next big thing for ...

In other words, the famous Chinese oil boom that helped drive global oil demand growth has finally come to an end. There are a myriad of factors at play here. Over the past couple of decades ...

President Trump wants to boost oil drilling. His allies in the U.S. shale industry and Saudi Arabia are pushing back. Trump for months has encouraged the U.S. shale industry to “drill, baby ...

Oil and gas employment has been climbing in Oklahoma since the pandemic-induced collapse in 2020, though it has yet to reach the highs of the early shale boom. About 43 percent of the state’s ...

Jose Gonzalez* wore no mask, despite the toxic chemicals he worked with in the oil field. “One leak, and no one will hear from you again,” he said. He shrugged. At 31, with three children at ...