At present, oil extraction in the United States sits at record levels of roughly 13.2 million barrels per day. No wonder oil is so expensive. Wait, what’s that you say? U.S. extraction at record ...

Discover how steam-assisted gravity drainage (SAGD) revolutionizes heavy oil extraction by making deep oil reserves accessible and economically viable.

Report by Global Oil and Gas Extraction Tracker says it took less than five years for fields to come online between 1960 and ...

Fossil fuel companies are experimenting with using carbon dioxide captured from the air in oil extraction to usher in a new era of planet-friendly “net-zero oil” – but the idea is an illusion, ...

Exxon Mobil, Chevron and Occidental Petroleum are betting big on emerging technologies to extract lithium from drilling wastes and salt flats. Since oil and gas drilling began nearly 150 years ago, ...

Alaska’s controversial Willow project has drawn criticism, but a global analysis shows that it’s just one of hundreds of investments approved in the past year or so. By Max Bearak When the Biden ...

The number of employees in the oil and gas extraction industry has dropped by thousands since the start of the year, data on the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics website shows. Image by BitsAndSplits ...