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.

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.

There could be about a million 'orphan' oil and gas wells across the U.S. As they age, they can leak greenhouse gases or unhealthy chemicals.

A suite of new technologies is enabling independent oil and gas producer Venoco Inc. to find and tap into previously overlooked oil deposits in the Santa Barbara Channel, while improving the ...

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.

Endangered turtle species saved from extinction 01:00. More than a week after the U.S. Coast Guard said that an estimated 1.1 million gallons of crude oil leaked into the Gulf of Mexico near a ...

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.

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.