You might picture oil deposits as giant underground lakes ... removing oil from them is kind of like squeezing the water out of a soaked sponge. When that rock is harder and more dense, like ...

A suite of new technologies is enabling independent oil and gas producer Venoco Inc. to find and tap into previously overlooked oil deposits in ... larger volumes of water than of oil.

April 10 (UPI) --The Department of Interior on Thursday released an analysis of fossil fuel deposits showing ... 7.04 billion barrels of oil equivalent" under the water. "This new data confirms ...

NEW YORK, May 5 (Reuters Breakingviews) - Oil ... of water, sand and chemicals at extremely high pressure into shale formations, cracking them apart to reveal the natural gas and oil deposits ...

Oil money was also ideal for spending on one-time projects like roads or water systems ... Delaware Basin which has one of the largest oil deposits in the world. Oil is not going anywhere, ...

Mexican state-controlled oil company Pemex plans to carry out infill drilling at the shallow-water Tlalkivak field in the country’s Sureste basin, as it searches for new oil deposits in the area.

long tubes that soak up the oil in the water. The park's waterways were also closed to visitors. According to a city investigator, the oil source was an upstream storm drain in a nearby neighborhood.

“Analyzing the environmental consequences of building the railroad without analyzing what happens when the oil arrives is like diving headfirst into a pool without checking how deep the water is ...