He went to work in the oil fields for Sinclair Oil Corp. as a 17-year-old high school dropout. He said he earned $12 an hour and worked 80-hour weeks. He moved to Halliburton after about a year, where ...

Have you or someone you know been hurt while working in the oil field? Oil field jobs are physically demanding and come with a high risk of accidents due to the challenging working conditions. When a ...

Cheyenne, Wyoming-based Kenny Ziglar, owner of four-truck Ziglar Transport, pulls tankers hauling chemicals, oils, and both hazmat and non-hazmat products. His decision to hang out his shingle was ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — BP said yesterday it discovered corrosion so severe that it will have to replace 16 miles of pipeline at the huge Prudhoe Bay oil field — work that could shut down the nation’s ...

Actor Robert Redford talks to the press at the General Assembly's High-Level Climate Change meeting at the United Nations in New York, June 29, 2015. Credit - Timothy A. Clary—Getty Images Before he ...

The current efforts to limit liability in the oil and gas industry are part of a larger pattern of deregulation that has ...

The Oklahoma Geological Survey has started work on a set of "best practices" to reduce the risk of oil-field activity's causing earthquakes. "Even though the risk of damaging induced earthquakes is ...

R ight around noon on Oct. 10, 2019, just outside Pecos, Texas, in the Permian oil patch, Jeff Springman bends down to the desert floor, grabs some dirt, tosses it in the air to see which way the wind ...

China's Changqing shale oil field has reached 20 million tons of cumulative production, marking a major leap forward in the nation's drive to expand domestic shale output.