HOUSTON - U.S. "stripper well" operators, the nation's smallest oil producers seen as most likely to succumb to the crude price slump, are hanging in tough, reducing the chances of near-term ...

Some of oil reserves may get stuck underground if the industry's pumps keep failing. (Bloomberg) -- Imagine trying to slurp a thick chocolate shake through a J-shaped straw four miles long. That’s the ...

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – Wayde Schafer and his children stood atop a towering butte two decades ago and watched in the distance as a nodding donkey pump sucked oil from underground in an otherwise ...