The public has until Jan. 23 to submit comments on the federal proposal to open California waters to offshore oil drilling.

The total number of active drilling rigs for oil and gas in the United States rose by 1 this week, according to new data that ...

California Lt. Gov. Eleni Kounalakis, along with other state officials and environmental advocates, announced her opposition ...

WASHINGTON— The Trump administration’s proposal to dramatically ramp up offshore oil drilling could lead to 4,232 oil spills, dumping 12.1 million gallons of oil into ocean waters, according to an ...

There has been no oil drilling off the coast of California in 40 years, but a recent proposal looks to change that.

The Trump administration reportedly has plans to open the waters off California's coast to new oil and gas drilling for the first time in four decades, drawing swift condemnation from Gov. Gavin ...

Alaska’s state-owned investment bank could get permission to start oil exploration work in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge as soon as the third quarter of this year, according to court documents ...

(Bloomberg) -- ConocoPhillips is pushing to explore for more oil near its roughly $7.5 billion Willow project in Alaska, betting there are vast reserves of undiscovered crude in the state’s Arctic ...

Murphy Oil has made what analysts describe as the largest oil discovery in Southeast Asia in the past two decades, offering Vietnam a rare chance to reverse a long-running decline in crude production.

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And investors in the oil industry aren’t exactly clamoring for a big expansion of domestic production right now. There was a time when investors wanted to see oil companies invest a lot of money in ...

Brazilian state oil company Petrobras said Tuesday that a "fluid leak" had forced it to halt drilling off the coast of the ...