He went to work in the oil fields for Sinclair Oil Corp. as a 17-year-old high school dropout. He said he earned $12 an hour and worked 80-hour weeks. He moved to Halliburton after about a year, where ...

Drillers’ injection of wastewater is creating mayhem across the Permian Basin, raising concern about the future of ...

Gov. Gavin Newsom touted California’s environmental efforts at a UN climate summit, but toxic spills and a new law speeding drilling have tarnished the state's reputation at home.

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. As the end of drilling nears at the century-old Inglewood Oil Field, officials and communities debate whether its ...

Cheyenne, Wyoming-based Kenny Ziglar, owner of four-truck Ziglar Transport, pulls tankers hauling chemicals, oils, and both hazmat and non-hazmat products. His decision to hang out his shingle was ...

NORTH SEA, Denmark (AP) — Appearing first as a dot on the horizon, the remote Nini oil field on Europe’s rugged North Sea slowly comes into view from a helicopter. Used to extract fossil fuels, the ...

Actor Robert Redford talks to the press at the General Assembly's High-Level Climate Change meeting at the United Nations in New York, June 29, 2015. Credit - Timothy A. Clary—Getty Images Before he ...

Public review begins today on a set of revisions to Kern government's third attempt at a comprehensive environmental review that, in combination with a proposed county ordinance, would allow local ...

CALCASIEU PARISH, La. (KPLC) - A Sulphur man was killed in an accident at an oil field Wednesday. Drilling contractor Tiger Well Service confirmed the accident at the Starks Brine Field is under ...

The Oklahoma Geological Survey has started work on a set of "best practices" to reduce the risk of oil-field activity's causing earthquakes. "Even though the risk of damaging induced earthquakes is ...

Before he was a Hollywood icon Robert Redford, who died on Tuesday at the age of 89, was a teenager working on an oil field in California hoping to save up enough money to travel to Europe and study ...

Thousands of gallons of oil and toxic wastewater poured out of a pipe running through a Monterey County oil field on Friday, Dec. 5, in the latest of several recent spills around the state. The pipe ...