This year marked the return to boosting oil and gas production, and with it—increased exploration efforts in key basins and promising new frontiers. Guyana, Suriname, Namibia, and Brazil have seen ...

Oil-based drilling cuttings are a major by-product of petroleum exploration and production, typically laden with petroleum hydrocarbons and heavy metals. Their management and treatment are critical, ...

ConocoPhillips plans to hunt for more oil this winter in the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska where it’s already developing the giant Willow field, according to a statement from the company. The ...

Going against conventional wisdom, explorers at a Norwegian energy company drilled horizontally to find oil in an abandoned natural gas field. A model of a giant rig called the DeepSea Stavanger that ...

(Bloomberg) -- ConocoPhillips is pushing to explore for more oil near its roughly $7.5 billion Willow project in Alaska, betting there are vast reserves of undiscovered crude in the state’s Arctic ...

The Trump administration reportedly has plans to open the waters off California's coast to new oil and gas drilling for the first time in four decades, drawing swift condemnation from Gov. Gavin ...

Last year, one of the world’s biggest oil companies walked away from a handful of promising leases in shallow waters just off the coast of Alaska’s North Slope. The move by Shell, which some observers ...

A plan to expand oil and gas drilling, including seven areas in the Gulf of America off Florida, has been released by the Trump administration. Maps show proposed areas for drilling off Florida, ...

Exploration activity has been picking up of late but spending will have to increase further for oil producers just to maintain their production output, the chief executive of seismic specialist TGS ...