Oil well

Having to dig deeper to fill up the gas tank? You are not alone as gas prices have steadily risen in the past few weeks.

As OPEC and non-OPEC nations prepare to meet in Moscow on December 10 to discuss oil production limitations, residents of the Eagle Ford Shale region of South Texas are wondering how it all might impact their lives in the coming months.

Scientists believe it will be decades before the Gulf of Mexico sea floor, damaged across almost 60-square-miles, recovers from the 2010 BP oil spill, according to a recently published study.

Name: Perdido Spar Where: Gulf of Mexico Cost: Undisclosed Estimated Completion: First oil, 2010; all wells online, 2016 The Challenge: Moor a skyscraper-size floating rig to the seafloor, then drill the world's deepest subsea well Two hundred miles off the coast of Galveston, Texas, below 10,000 feet of water and another 9,000 feet of mud, salt and rock, lies Shell Oil's most ambitious new target, a swath of seabed the size of Houston that holds enough oil and natural gas to produce up to…

ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson acknowledged that climate change exists while giving a speech at the Council on Foreign Relations, but he said that society will be able to adapt.

The Deepwater Horizon oil rig disaster has generated renewed interest in the way we search for oil. What methods do we use to find and extract this commodity from the Earth?

Vitamin E is not a single vitamin, but a group of fat soluble vitamins along with antioxidant properties.

If you are up in space looking down on America west of the Mississippi, one of the brightest patches of light at night is on the Great Plains in North Dakota. It's not a city, not a town, not a military installation. What is it?

Burning oil field, Ahmadi Oil Fields, Kuwait, 1991

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