WASHINGTON — Federal regulators on Friday launched a streamlined process for vetting applications for offshore drilling permits in response to complaints from oil and gas companies that the government ...

Drilling in its broadest sense is any process that involves making a circular hole in a solid material or hard surface using a boring tool. With thousands of applications across industries, drilling ...

LAS CRUCES - A hydrologist working with the city to build three new wells recently held a short course to explain the drilling process. “The ideal well is efficient, with very little sand production,” ...

Learn the difference between horizontal and vertical drilling, and why we think vertical drilling is the way to go.

Mike Chadsey, director of public relations for the Ohio Oil and Gas Association, walks down from an Ascent drilling rig in Belmont County. (Photo by Janelle Patterson) ST. CLAIRSVILLE, Ohio — Between ...

DICKINSON, N.D. - The Obama administration on Tuesday will announce plans to speed up the review process for oil and gas companies seeking to drill on U.S. lands. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar is set ...

LOVELAND — Within a few months, McWhinney Real Estate Services Inc., developer of the Centerra neighborhood of east Loveland, plans to submit an application for a permit to drill oil and gas wells on ...

PITTSBURGH (AP) — More than 100 protests against the natural gas drilling process known as fracking are scheduled to take place around the world on Saturday, building on public concerns but also using ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration on Tuesday unveiled new procedures to speed up drilling on public lands, an area where Republicans and the oil industry have pressed the administration to do ...

The Trump administration could be days away from proposing a five-year drilling plan that would open new waters off the Pacific and eastern Gulf coasts to oil and gas rigs.

Concerned community members, Santa Cruz officials and environmental advocates gathered on the Santa Cruz Wharf on a clear ...