At present, oil extraction in the United States sits at record levels of roughly 13.2 million barrels per day. No wonder oil is so expensive. Wait, what’s that you say? U.S. extraction at record ...

About 30 Indigenous women from seven Amazon nationalities have traveled to Ecuador’s northern oil region to witness the environmental impacts of decades of oil and gas extraction.

Indigenous women in Ecuador's Amazon tour oil fields to highlight the environmental and health impacts of oil extraction, ...

Ecuador is failing to comply with key provisions of an Inter-American Court of Human Rights ruling to protect the Tagaeri and ...

Discover how steam-assisted gravity drainage (SAGD) revolutionizes heavy oil extraction by making deep oil reserves accessible and economically viable.

Press releases are posted on Independent.com as a free community service. VENTURA COUNTY, Calif.— Two federal agencies have confirmed the cancellation of applications for permits proposed a decade ago ...

Exxon Mobil, Chevron and Occidental Petroleum are betting big on emerging technologies to extract lithium from drilling wastes and salt flats. Since oil and gas drilling began nearly 150 years ago, ...

The number of employees in the oil and gas extraction industry has dropped by thousands since the start of the year, data on the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics website shows. Image by BitsAndSplits ...

Africa gave the world humanity. The world took almost everything else.” “Africa holds a substantial share of the resources that will sustain the ...