This determines what types of fluids are present because oil and fresh ... the drilling mud, or drilling fluid, used to provide buoyancy to the drill, as well as remove cuttings from the well.

The lack of regulatory oversight of radioactive waste in the oil and gas industry has created an environment ripe for some ...

(NSF) - An administrative law judge Monday waded into a legal battle about a plan to drill for oil and gas in part ... to reuse or dispose of drilling fluids, cuttings and formation water.

Sheriff Smith expresses concern over potential environmental damage from a proposed oil drilling project near ... The site for the exploratory oil well is in the heart of 230,000 acres of ...

The proposed ban comes after public outcry over a permitted exploratory oil well in the Apalachicola River floodplains. The House bill specifically prohibits drilling within 10 miles of the bay's ...

President Joe Biden is planning to prohibit future offshore oil and gas drilling along most of the ... Florida officials from both parties — as well as Trump, who prohibited leasing there ...

However, recent market conditions and policy changes have many questioning whether an aggressive push to increase drilling is ... that could drive up well costs and an oil price plateau that ...

"Expanding oil drilling across public lands in the Arctic is risky, harmful to the health and well-being of people who reside nearby, devastating to wildlife and bad for the climate,” said ...