From railroad tycoons to golden fields, the origins of each county’s name reveal the region’s political, cultural and ...

The Bakken field of western North Dakota and Eastern Montana harbors 3 billion to 4 billion barrels of recoverable oil under today’s technology — 25 times more than the U.S Geological Survey ...

China's state-owned oil and gas firm China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) has brought on stream Wenchang 9-7 oil field development in the western Pearl River Mouth Basin in South China Sea.

WASHINGTON – The Department of the Interior announced it will no longer require the Bureau of Land Management to conduct an environmental impact statement for about 3,244 oil and gas leases ...

Iraqi parliament’s oil and gas committee had criticised the Ministry for awarding the deal to that company on the grounds it is little known and does not have the technology to develop such an immense ...

WASHINGTON – The Department of the Interior announced it will no longer require the Bureau of Land Management to conduct an environmental impact statement for about 3,244 oil and gas leases across ...

This map shows all of the major ... However, the Powder River Basin (in Wyoming and Montana) and the Williston Basin (in North Dakota and Montana – home to the Bakken Shale) are notable ...

DILLON, Mont. — The University of Montana Western has transferred ownership of Vigilante Field to Beaverhead County High School. The Montana University System Board of Regents approved the ...

An oil company developing a large field on Alaska’s North Slope has reached a deal with ConocoPhillips over the use of roads needed to access that field and other prospects. Santos, the ...

Saudi oil firm Aramco (2222.SE), opens new tab has discovered 14 oil and natural gas fields and reservoirs in the kingdom's Eastern Region and the Empty Quarter, state news agency SPA said on ...

DUBAI - Saudi oil firm Aramco has discovered 14 oil and natural gas fields and reservoirs in the kingdom's Eastern Region and the Empty Quarter, state news agency SPA said on Wednesday, containing ...