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

Aug. 8—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.

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.

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 ...

Nearly 3,000 upstream workers, about 1.5% of the sector’s workforce, lost their jobs in June and July, a trend industry experts may worsen if the price of crude oil doesn't recover.

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

Imagine searching for oil in western Canada and instead of finding fossil fuel, you find a fossil! That’s just what happened when workers at an oil sand site in Canada found a 110-million-year-old ...

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 ...