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

Explore the differences between shale oil and conventional oil, including extraction costs and methods, and how these impact ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In certain towns in Northern Jordan, ranchers bubble some portion of their olive natural product gathered before oil extraction to expand the amount of oil, . They perceive it as a way to get a ...

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