Learn about spud, the initial drilling process in oil and gas that protects groundwater and outlines a well's development from spud date to completion.

After more than a decade of community activism, a notorious oil drilling facility operating on land leased from the Los ...

Midland College trustees approved a campus oil well deal with safety limits, a sound wall and projected millions in royalties ...

The MarketWatch News Department was not involved in the creation of this content. LOS ANGELES, Feb. 5, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Last year, permit approvals for drilling new wells continued falling, but in ...

The Trump administration is suing California over a law regulating oil and gas wells close to schools, homes and other sensitive sites. How many schools stand to be impacted?

Maria Burns watched with satisfaction as a three-story-high drilling rig made a racket in her front yard. Normally, the loudest thing on this residential street in Ashland, Ohio, would be the barking ...

The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is proposing to open roughly 850,000 acres across Central California to new oil drilling and fracking, nearly half of which are public lands, including parks, ...

Valeura Energy completed an eight-well drilling campaign at License B5/27 offshore Gulf of Thailand. The drilling rig is being mobilized to Nong Yao field where Valeura plans will drill about 10 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Despite President Donald Trump’s calls to “drill, baby, drill,” many oil companies operating in the Gulf of Mexico will likely do ...

Russia's oil producers have cut drilling to the lowest level in three years, denting prospects for output growth this year as tougher western sanctions and a strong rouble squeeze revenues. Source: ...

Russia’s oil producers reduced the pace of drilling in 2025 to the lowest level in three years, dimming the outlook for output growth this year as Western sanctions and a strong ruble undercut revenue ...

LOS ANGELES, Feb. 5, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Last year, permit approvals for drilling new wells continued falling, but in the first three weeks of January alone, California oil regulators issued more new ...