Aging fields and volatile markets make drilling a tough sell, even with a path cleared for permitting.

About 30 Indigenous women from seven Amazon nationalities have traveled to Ecuador’s northern oil region to witness the environmental impacts of decades of oil and gas extraction.

While oil producers and refineries are closing their doors and leaving California, Patrick McDonald, CEO of Carbon Energy Corporation, has found something of a safe haven in Ventura County — an area he said is more industry friendly.

In the span of just two weeks, global energy markets have been thrown into turmoil. Oil prices have surged past $100 a barrel for the first time in years and even briefly climbed to $120. The cause is no mystery.

A federal deadline came and went this week for oil companies to bid on around 1 million acres of drilling territory off Alaska’s Cook Inlet.

"We won't tolerate the Trump Administration's intent to auction off California's coast for offshore drilling to the highest bidder," Levin said.

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 Newsom, lawmakers and environmental groups who say it would ...