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 ...

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 ...

Abu Dhabi’s Upper Zakum offshore oil field is likely to reach its target for expanding production capacity ahead of schedule, said Exxon Mobil Corp. Chief Executive Officer Darren Woods.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — BP said yesterday it discovered corrosion so severe that it will have to replace 16 miles of pipeline at the huge Prudhoe Bay oil field — work that could shut down the nation’s ...

Daily production at the Kashagan oil field has dropped by 60 percent, according to the Kazakh Ministry of Energy, amid planned maintenance work, contributing to a 13 percent decrease in production ...

After a century of oil extraction in the Baldwin Hills, pressure is mounting to free the 1,000-acre oil field for a better use. But long-held plans for a park may now face competition from the need ...

ConocoPhillips (COP) is working with the Iraq Oil Ministry and Russia's OAO Lukoil Holdings (LKOH.RS) on a development plan for the West Qurna field, a ConocoPhillips executive said Wednesday. "We're ...

(Bloomberg) -- Texas regulators are warning that wastewater from fracking in the biggest US oil basin is causing a “widespread” increase in underground pressure — a development that risks hindering ...

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 ...