• Oil giant Shell is to launch a bid to leave the 10 vast concrete legs of three oil rigs standing in the North Sea for up to 500 years after the platforms have been decommissioned.

When developing oil and gas well pads, the vegetation and soil are removed to level the areas for drilling and operations.

With India becoming the world's third largest oil consumer and its energy consumption projected to grow 128 per cent by 2035, the annual Petrotech international conference in December will play a k

The Obama administration on Friday blocked new exploration for oil and gas in Arctic waters, in a win for environmental groups that had fought development of the ecologically fragile region.

A five-year offshore drilling plan has been set out by the Obama administration to block off any possible oil drilling activities in the Arctic Ocean, specifically in the Chukchi and Beaufort seas

State-run Oil India has received environment clearance for Rs 220-crore development drilling project in Jaisalmer district of Rajasthan.

Ecuador began drilling for oil on Wednesday near an Amazon nature reserve known as Yasuni, a site that President Rafael Correa had previously sought to protect from development and pollution under

Chemists at the University of Texas at Arlington have published a new study that indicates that highly variable contamination events registered in and around unconventional oil and gas developments