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.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) — Gov. Gavin Newsom is proposing a bill to streamline permitting for new oil wells. It’s a proposal ...

In anticipation of the 2025 proposal, the Humboldt County Board of Supervisors narrowly passed a resolution opposing offshore drilling in October. The City of Arcata followed. The Humboldt Bay Harbor ...

The move restores a 2020 plan issued in Trump’s first term that opened much of the 23-million-acre petroleum reserve to drilling. The Interior Department on Monday approved a plan that would reopen ...

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 ...

JUNEAU — ConocoPhillips Alaska can proceed with an oil and gas exploration program in a portion of a vast petroleum reserve in the state after a federal judge denied a request from project opponents ...

Arctic Drilling Alaska FILE - In this undated photo provided by the United States Geological Survey, permafrost forms a grid-like pattern in the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska managed by the Bureau ...

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — ConocoPhillips Alaska can proceed with an oil and gas exploration program in a portion of a vast petroleum reserve in the state after a federal judge denied a request from ...