Questions still stir more than two years after the death of a young mechanical engineer near Alaska’s North Slope oil fields. Colby Lord, 23, suffered a severe skull fracture on April 15, 2023. A ...

Former saltwater disposal operator Mike Mercado successfully completed coursework at the Alamo Area Law Enforcement Academy where part of his training including using an immersive 3-D simulator.

Federal investigators have documented a series of illegal oil field waste disposal cases across the American West. Most recently, two Wyoming oil ...

Have you or someone you know been hurt while working in the oil field? Oil field jobs are physically demanding and come with a high risk of accidents due to the challenging working conditions. When a ...

The curse of the oil field for a worker with family elsewhere - Lubbock is a seven-hour round trip drive from the heart of the Permian - is living on the marginal salary of an oil hauler in today's ...

Once, he viewed the world from the top of a 70-foot oil derrick. Eagles would pass as he worked in the Wyoming wind. He would use his whole body to keep balance, attaching solid steel piping that ...

This story was produced in partnership with the Pulitzer Center. It is part one of a four-part series. Jose Gonzalez* wore no mask, despite the toxic chemicals he worked with in the oil field. “One ...

The oil industry touts Texas as a success story in controlling climate-warming methane emissions. The state’s regulator, ...

French giant TotalEnergies, QatarEnergy and Basra Oil Company (BOC) have kicked off construction work at two sizeable ...

Right around noon on Oct. 10, 2019, just outside Pecos, Texas, in the Permian oil patch, Jeff Springman bends down to the desert floor, grabs some dirt, tosses it in the air to see which way the wind ...