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

When oil prices are inflated due to geopolitical tensions like the Iran War, ETFs handling different aspects of the industry ...

Baker Hughes’ U.S. rotary drilling rig count was 581 on July 10, up by one from the previous week and up by 44 from 537 a year ago. The count has increased in 11 of the last 12 weeks. It got into the ...

U.S. oil and gas jobs hit a 2026 low even as production sets records, and the reasons have little to do with falling oil ...

U.S. energy firms this week added rigs for a fifth week in a row for the first time since early June, boosting the total count to its highest since April ​2025, energy services firm Baker Hughes said ...

The number of employees in the oil and gas extraction industry dropped from May to June, data on the U.S. Bureau of Labor ...

Trump wants to politicize scientific research. That’s bad news for Texas’ energy industry, writes Michael E. Webber.

CARACAS, June 29 (Reuters) - An explosion at a rig operated ‌by state-run oil company PDVSA in Venezuela'sLos Llanos central region left at least 17 workers injured late on Sunday, including two with ...

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 ...

The total number of active drilling rigs for oil and gas in the United States rose this week, according to new data that Baker Hughes published on Friday, bringing the total rig count in the US to 573 ...

Oil rigs aren't just one thing, they're a whole family of structures each designed to solve the same problem at greater and greater depths. From steel jackets bolted to the seafloor to giant floating ...

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