Resolution Copper is set to start exploratory drilling at Oak Flat after a long-sought land swap is completed.

Offshore oil rigs are among the most complex structures ever built, designed to operate in some of the harshest conditions on Earth. This video explores how engineers design, transport, and assemble ...

The $5 billion project in the Gulf of Mexico is expected to help produce up to 10 billion barrels of oil by the end of this decade. Critics say it could endanger people and marine life.

California issued more drilling permits, but producers aren’t drilling despite oil prices over $100 per barrel, citing ...

Shares of Sable Offshore jumped more than 10% in extended trading Friday as the Trump administration evoked a 1950 law to allow the $2.5 billion oil-and-gas exploration company to resume offshore ...

Learn about drilling mud, also known as drilling fluid, which facilitates borehole drilling for oil, gas, and sampling by ...

Researchers are drilling 2,600 feet into ancient Jurassic clay beneath a Swiss mountain to determine if the rock formation ...

The copper and leather device represents the first evidence of mechanical tools from Egypt’s pre-Pharaonic history.

The number of oil and gas rigs actively drilling in the U.S. stayed unchanged at 551 for the second straight week, Baker Hughes reported Friday in its latest weekly survey. During the week ended ...

Total U.S. rig count remained at 551, with oil rigs down three and gas rigs up three. U.S. crude production rose to 13.713 million bpd, nearing an all-time high. Permian rig activity declined again ...

Offshore drilling contractor Transocean has agreed to acquire Valaris in an all-stock transaction valued at about $5.8 billion, creating one of the world’s largest offshore drilling contractors with a ...

A winter oil-drilling campaign planned by ConocoPhillips will proceed without interruption despite the dramatic wreck of an oil rig over the weekend. Doyon 26, claimed to be the largest mobile oil ...