President Trump has said he plans to take control of oil reserves in Venezuela. The president stated the venture will greatly ...

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Trump's exception for Chevron contrasts with the embargo that has been in place since 2019 for the rest of the foreign ...

A Canadian tycoon who heads one of North America's fastest-growing oil companies is advocating for his country to lend its ...

Fracking, or hydraulic fracturing, is a method of extracting oil and natural gas from dense rock or sand where traditional drilling is not an option. Due to the nature of fracking, costs are higher ...

Venezuela sits on 303 billion barrels of oil—more than Saudi Arabia. So why does it pump less than 1% of global supply? The answer involves nationalizations, sanctions and crude that's harder to ...

A series of more than 100 small earthquakes in Surrey in 2018 and 2019 might have been triggered by oil extraction from a nearby well, suggests a new study. A series of more than 100 small earthquakes ...

A technology company is using bacterium to pioneer new methods of extraction in the oil and mining industries.