Oklahoma powered America in the 20th century through booms and busts. But the flowing black gold also spawned swindling and ...

In 1980, an oil drilling crew on Lake Peigneur started feeling violent vibrations, then watched their $8 million rig tilt and ...

This week will offer the clearest picture yet of the Iran war’s impact on the world’s biggest oil field service providers, with the likes of SLB Ltd., Baker Hughes Co. and Halliburton Co. all expected ...

Andy Burnham will spend the weekend preparing to become British prime minister, with allies saying he intends to make a ...

Why It Matters Video: WSJ's David Uberti explains how the Strategic Petroleum Reserve works to help blunt the impact of oil shocks such as the Iran War. Iran Rushed Out $6 Billion of Oil During Brief ...

Britain first discovered gas in the North sea in 1965. Oil finds soon followed and by the early 1980s the UK was exporting ...

The Strait of Hormuz is closed again after Iran’s July 11 declaration and three straight nights of U.S. strikes, and Brent has climbed back above $86, up about 40 percent this year. The same inflation ...

On July 15, 2010, BP announced it had capped its crippled underwater well that sent millions of barrels of crude gushing into ...

On July 15, 2010, BP announced it had capped its crippled underwater well that sent millions of barrels of crude gushing into ...

Sable Offshore Corp., briefly buoyed by a Trump administration push to boost oil production off the California coast, lost roughly half its market value after it turned to equity and bond investors to ...

Norway's oil services labor dispute escalates leading to drilling disruption. A lockout affecting around 1,000 oil service workers was declared in response to an ongoing strike by several hundred ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: On July 6, 1988, a record-breaking North Sea oil platform suffered a catastrophic chain reaction during a routine night shift. A small maintenance ...