BP’s out-of-control oil gusher in the Gulf of Mexico isn’t the first to grab the world’s attention. In fact, one of the most infamous blowouts was right here in Oklahoma. The Oklahoma City oil field ...

For the first time since April, the flow of oil into the Gulf of Mexico stopped -- at least temporarily -- Thursday after BP sealed a containment cap during the start of pressure tests on the device.

TAFT, Calif., Nov 4 (Reuters) - Drive too fast through the dusty, rolling hills of California's oil country and you could easily miss the site of the largest oil spill in U.S. history. Sign up here. A ...

InvestorPlace - Stock Market News, Stock Advice & Trading Tips Somewhere around 1910, a self-taught geologist named Patillo ...

ON THE GULF OF MEXICO - A day after icy slush clogged the massive box they hoped would contain an out-of-control oil gusher in the Gulf of Mexico, BP officials said Sunday that they may try again - ...

BEAUMONT, Texas — After a well at Spindletop in Beaumont struck oil on Jan. 10, 1901, the birth of the modern petroleum industry came to be. Now 123 years later, the Spindletop Gladys City Boomtown ...

A cap was back in place on BP's broken oil well after a deep-sea blunder forced crews to temporarily remove what has been the most effective method so far for containing some of the massive Gulf of ...

The company behind the “Gatwick Gusher” oil field in Surrey has asked for permission to restart the shuttered project. UK Oil ...

Any young man who signs up for a job with an oil company nowadays may find himself involved in the business of making toothbrushes, running a motel, selling houses or dredging for diamonds. Oil ...

TAFT, California (Reuters) - Drive too fast through the dusty, rolling hills of California's oil country and you could easily miss the site of the largest oil spill in U.S. history. A plaque, and a ...