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The Bureau of Land Management has given expedited approval to a project that will expand oil-by-rail shipments from Utah’s Uinta Basin to Gulf Coast refineries by tens of thousands of barrels a day.
The war with Iran shows why hopes for energy independence are inadequate.
The Coast Guard medevacked a man who was reportedly suffering severe chest pains from an oil rig off the coast of Santa Barbara on Friday.
U.S. Coast Guard medically evacuated a man from an oil rig off the coast of Santa Barbara on June 27, 2025.
– A man working on Platform Heritage off the southern coast of Santa Barbara County was rescued by a U.S. Coast Guard MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter crew after experiencing severe chest pains Friday.
The total number of active drilling rigs for oil and gas in the United States fell yet again this week, according to new data that Baker Hughes published on Friday, following a 1-rig decrease in ...
Drew Shannon’s company United Salvage was passed over for a contract to recycle the Northern Endeavour oil platform. Picture: Jane Dempster ...
U.S. oil and gas drilling rigs hit their lowest count since 2021, with declines in major basins and continued monthly drops.
The National Transportation Safety Board says roughly 1.1 million gallons of crude oil spilled from a pipeline into the Gulf of Mexico in November 2023 because operators failed to shut it down for ...
The Interior Department forged ahead Wednesday with the Trump administration’s offshore oil and gas agenda by announcing a planned lease sale in the Gulf of Mexico.
Authorities say a fiery explosion at a storage and disposal plant in the oil fields of eastern Montana was felt by people 10 miles away but caused no injuries or fatalities. Richland County Emergency ...