Shell oil company has cleared another hurdle in its quest to explore for oil off Alaska's northwest coast.
New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson and sportsmen from across the state say they are encouraged that the federal government will be making changes to how oil and natural gas leases are awarded on public lands.
Interior Secretary Ken Salazar on Wednesday announced policy changes he said will bring more scrutiny and a greater public voice in how oil and gas leases are awarded on public lands.
An agreement signed Tuesday is aimed at safeguarding thousands of prehistoric American Indian drawings and carvings from truckers' dust in a famed Utah canyon near where a Colorado company wants to dramatically increase energy development.
Oil and gas companies face more drilling delays and higher costs because of a new U.S. Bureau of Land Management policy for protecting sage grouse in Wyoming, according to the Petroleum Association of Wyoming.
Opponents of a plan to drill dozens of natural gas wells in the southwest Colorado mountains, including roadless forest land, accused federal officials Thursday of playing a shell game with public lands.
The Environmental Protection Agency said New York regulators have much more work to do on proposed regulations that have already held up gas drilling in the state's part of the massive Marcellus Shale formation for more than a year.
Opponents of a federally approved plan to drill dozens of natural gas wells in the HD Mountains in southwest Colorado are taking their fight to court.
Gov.-elect Bob McDonnell wants the federal government to move forward with offshore energy exploration off of Virginia's coast.
New York City's Department of Environmental Protection called on state officials Wednesday to ban natural gas drilling in the Catskills watershed, saying it would pose too great a risk to the city's upstate drinking water system.
An agreement to protect a Utah canyon decorated by ancient American Indian art is expected to allow energy development in the area to move forward.
A Swiss court on Monday acquitted a geologist accused of causing earthquakes while drilling deep into the ground in a pioneering attempt to produce clean energy.
Native Alaskan groups who depend on whaling and a coalition of environmental groups sued the federal government Tuesday, seeking to block a Shell Oil subsidiary from drilling next year in the Beaufort Sea.
Bronco Drilling Company, Inc. said Thursday that it operated fewer drilling rigs but increased its dayrate in November when compared with averages from the previous quarter.
Switzerland has ended a pioneering geothermal project, authorities said Thursday, three years after the deep drilling into the ground caused a series of earthquakes, scaring residents of the northwestern city of Basel.
Environmentalist concerns about elk have prompted the U.S. Bureau of Land Management to suspend coal-bed methane drilling in part of the gas-rich Powder River Basin in northeast Wyoming.
The Minerals Management Service on Monday conditionally approved plans by Shell Oil Co. to drill three exploratory wells next year in the Chukchi Sea off Alaska's northwest coast.
The federal government has acknowledged it never prosecuted anyone who failed to pay a bid for drilling rights in Utah until a college student offered his bogus bids in an act of environmental defiance.
Environmentalists are questioning the legal justification offered for what would be the only active oil well inside the nation's first national forest.
Interior Secretary Ken Salazar lashed out at the oil and gas industry Tuesday, accusing some industry trade groups of acting like an arm of the Republican Party in criticizing the Obama administration's record on energy production.
A Democratic candidate for agriculture commissioner has a response to Republican calls to "Drill, Baby, Drill."
The Obama administration has delayed a decision on a request by Shell Oil Co. to drill for oil and gas in Alaska's rugged Chukchi Sea. The delay came after the oil company asked for time to respond to criticism of its plan to drill in the icy sea, a prime habitat for threatened polar bears.
In a Nov. 16 story about a federal case involving a college student's disruption of an oil and gas auction in Utah, The Associated Press erroneously described a ruling by U.S. District Judge Dee Benson.
Drillers say it's getting so hard to obtain an oil-and-gas lease in the Rocky Mountains under the new administration of President Barack Obama that many aren't bothering to show up for auctions.
A huge increase in the application fee for oil and gas companies to drill on federal land is unfair and won't speed up review of drilling permits, industry officials said Wednesday.
A geologist has gone on trial in Switzerland for allegedly causing earthquakes while drilling for hot rocks to produce clean energy.
The Interior Department today gave the go-ahead for Shell Oil to begin drilling three exploratory wells in the Chukchi Sea, a move that opens the door for production in a new region of the Arctic.
"Drill for oil? You mean drill into the ground to try and find oil? You're crazy." --Associates of Edwin L. Drake refusing his suggestion to drill for oil in 1859.
Construction workers drilling for a geothermal heat source in the traditional spa town of Wiesbaden created a violent geyser that caused flooding contained only by early Friday morning, Hessian authorities said.
OKLAHOMA CITY — A new technique that tapped previously inaccessible supplies of natural gas in the United States is spreading to the rest of the world, raising hopes of a huge expansion in global reserves of the cleanest fossil fuel.
Bonds invested in Ghana's nascent oil industry rose sharply in value over the past year. They nearly doubled between November 2008 and July 2009. Ghana is working to broaden its exports beyond cocoa and gold.
Libya's General People's Committee decided on 09/09/2009 to invest 12.1 billion dinars ($9.92 billion) to develop and maintain 24 oil wells the government described as "technically, financially and economically proven productive fields", the cash will be borrowed from local b …
This month, more than 40 Dollar General Stores stretching from Arkansas to Tennessee have been targeted.
The U.S. is going to lend billions of dollars to Brazil's state-owned oil company, Petrobras, to finance exploration of the huge offshore discovery in Brazil's Tupi oil field in the Santos Basin near Rio de Janeiro.
due to wide opposition to the new oil drilling proposed for the Tranquillon Ridge Oil and Gas Field (T-Ridge) offshore in Lompoc, there will be a LOSS in property tax to Santa Barbara County to the tune of $15 Million dollars annually.
Exploration Company announced today that its affiliate, ExxonMobil Libya Limited, has started drilling the first deepwater exploration well in Libya.
Hopefully, besides mainstream Egyptologists, such as Mark Lehner and IES Edwards, (RIP) other Egyptologists do not suggest that the copper chisels, that can now be found in the Cairo Museum, were representative of the tools used to build the pyramids.
Recent free trade agreements signed with the American and Canadian governments fueled the government to go ahead with changes to domestic laws that would seek to advance mineral, logging, oil and agricultural 'development' into previously untouched areas of the Amazon.
The Washington federal court of appeals upheld a coalition of environmental organizations' claims that the Interior Department's assessment of the environmental sensitivity of some areas was "irrational." The agency must first reconsider its assessment before moving ahead with th …
Dr. Shukri Ghanem, chairman of Libya's NOC, met on Monday 20th April 2009 with Mr. Makoto Koseki President and CEO of NOEX, the meeting was also attended by Mr. Ali Saleh NOC's General Manager, Mr. Azzam Ali Elmesallati Members of the Management Committee and Mr.
The Libyan state-owned National Oil Corporation (NOC) has reported two new oil and natural gas discoveries—one with Algerian partner Sonatrach in the Ghadames basin and the other with Spanish partners Repsol YPF SA and OMV AG in the Sirte basin.
For all his green talk en route to the White House, President Barack Obama remains a cipher on one of the most critical environmental and economic issues facing California: whether to expand drilling for oil and gas off the coast for the first time in a generation.
Lower prices are bringing to an end an ambitious effort to squeeze more oil from aging fields and to tap new sources of natural gas. For the last four years, companies here drilled below airports, golf courses, churches and playgrounds in a frantic search for energy.
It's not what you earn, it's what you keep that often dictates your standard of living. With that in mind, take this quick tour of the ten cities in the nation that have the lowest overall tax burden.
Senate Bill 138 would allow the state's Finance and Administration Cabinet to lease oil and gas rights for state property, including the state's public universities and parks.
The Bush administration, in one of its final acts, is proposing to let energy companies drill for oil and natural gas in half-a-dozen areas off U.S. shores that previously had been off limits.
"House Speaker Nancy Pelosi recently called congressional Republicans who want up-or-down drilling votes "hand maidens of the oil companies." Let's call Pelosi what she is: House girl of the Big Wind boondogglers."
In his Jan. 10 column in the Rocky Mountain News Independence Institute analyst David Kopel significantly misstates the record on the environmental risks posed by the gas drilling technique known as hydraulic fracturing.
Dramatic Rescue From Drilling Platform -- Worker suffers head injury on drilling rig.
A Utah Student throws wrench into land bid, and protects thousands of acres in two national parks from drilling. He could now face prosecution.