Off-shore oil drilling currently accounts for over 35% of the world's total oil production, and that number has consistently risen over recent history. While a majority of oil extraction takes place ...

COLUMBIA, Miss. (WDAM) - More than thee months ago, Columbia native Dakota Johnson was killed while working on a land oil rig during a storm. Johnson’s family remembers his ambition and work ethic ...

Later this spring, barges of heavy equipment will pull away from a launch on Alaska’s road system and begin a journey up the Yukon River. More than 100 miles upstream, a tributary, Birch Creek, ...

A young Black girl learns that her land allotment is rich with oil in this story that aspires to teach us a lesson about white predation.

A year-long effort to block a Louisiana company’s plans to operate a wildcat oil rig along the environmentally fragile Apalachicola River will soon come to a head: An administrative hearing is set in ...

The total number of active drilling rigs for oil and gas in the United States fell this week, according to new data that Baker Hughes published on Friday, after a 5-rig drop in the week prior. The ...

The rig count in Canada fell by 3 units, ending the ended Nov. 14 with 188 rigs working, according to data from Baker Hughes. A 5-rig drop in oil-directed rigs in Canada was partially offset by a ...

North America dropped five rigs week on week, according to Baker Hughes’ latest North America rotary rig count, which was released on May 30. The U.S. dropped three rigs week on week and Canada cut ...

David Callahan is one of a few hundred people who are deep-sea oil rig divers, and he can’t imagine doing anything else Meredith Wilshere is a Society and Culture writer at PEOPLE. Her work has ...