It's becoming harder and more environmentally dangerous to find oil deposits that haven't been tapped and drained — especially as the energy demands of 21st-century civilization grow.

MEXICO CITY, Aug. 30 -- Officials at Mexico's state-owned oil monopoly said Monday that the company has detected massive new oil deposits in the Gulf of Mexico that could potentially double the ...

A Times analysis shows that increasingly complex oil and gas wells now require astonishing volumes of water to fracture the bedrock and release fossil fuels, threatening America’s fragile aquifers.

Oil drilling in Los Padres National Forest has been canceled, a sign that drilling and fracking in SoCal is fading. Skip to content. All Sections. Subscribe Now. 56°F.

Mexico's state-owned oil company has made its first large-scale discovery of deep-water oil deposits in the Gulf of Mexico, President Felipe Calderon announced Wednesday.

The oil eventually clogged the water well completely. It wasn’t until after our FactFinder investigation that Krob and Campbell got the help they’d been looking for from the state.

Oil fields are just as quick to make fortunes as break them. The 1901 Spindletop gusher in Texas jumpstarted the petroleum age, crashing oil prices. A mere two years later, over-extraction drove ...

Enefit American Oil last month notified the Bureau of Land Management that it was voluntarily relinquishing its 160-acre oil shale research, development and demonstration lease, issued in 2007.

BUTLER COUNTY, Kan. (KWCH) - After a FactFinder investigation into oil being found in a Butler County family’s only water source, the state is responding.FactFinder also heard from more people ...