The year was 1982, and Odessa, Texas, was making national headlines…not for its changing oil industry or its growing economy, ...

U.S. policymakers have been concerned about the country's dependence on imported energy since World War II. Those concerns were highlighted in the 1970s when episodes of sharply rising oil prices ...

That boom has seen oil and gas output consistently hit record levels in recent ... that allowed surface crews to visualize ...

But the reality is more nuanced. As is oil itself, which comes as light and heavier crude. Before the fracking boom, the US used to produce the heavy stuff, which its refineries were designed to ...

Javier Blas is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering energy and commodities. He is coauthor of “The World for Sale: Money, Power and the Traders Who Barter the Earth’s Resources.” ...

The use of hydraulic fracturing to extract oil and gas from the earth dates back ... alluding primarily to the shale gas boom in the United States and all of the controversy that has accompanied ...

Will Suriname become another oil boom province as neighboring Guyana? Wood Mackenzie hydrocarbons consultants believe it to be possible but exploration efforts have taken longer and the ...

That boom has seen oil and gas output consistently hit record ... crews to visualize the underground world in unprecedented detail. That turn would ultimately squeeze out oil and gas workers ...