CalGEM approved 17 new oil well drilling permits last year, down 77% from all of 2024 (73 permits), according to CalGEM data analyzed byFracTracker Alliance. The total number of rework permits issued ...

Russia's oil producers have cut drilling to the lowest level in three years, denting prospects for output growth this year as tougher western sanctions and a strong rouble squeeze revenues. Source: ...

Russia’s oil producers reduced the pace of drilling in 2025 to the lowest level in three years, dimming the outlook for output growth this year as Western sanctions and a strong ruble undercut revenue ...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom said Wednesday that 21 oil wells have been sealed at the AllenCo drilling site in Southern California, marking the end of a decades-long litigation battle between the City ...

Despite President Donald Trump’s calls to “drill, baby, drill,” many oil companies operating in the Gulf of Mexico will likely do what they’ve done for years: sit on hundreds of untapped oil leases ...

In 2014, the city of Los Angeles sued AllenCo Energy after residents claimed noxious vapors sickened residents living just north of USC.

Traders work in the crude oil and natural gas options pit of the New York Mercantile Exchange years ago. An oilfield operator who owns small stripper wells in Oklahoma is nervous. A long-time ...

The Ogun state government says a technical team from the Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Limited has visited the Eba oil well in Ogun Waterside LGA.

Abandoned oil and gas wells pose environmental and public health risks. For three decades, the state has mismanaged funds earmarked for minimizing the threat.

Valeura Energy completed an eight-well drilling campaign at License B5/27 offshore Gulf of Thailand. The drilling rig is being mobilized to Nong Yao field where Valeura plans will drill about 10 ...

LOS ANGELES, Feb. 5, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Last year, permit approvals for drilling new wells continued falling, but in the first three weeks of January alone, California oil regulators issued more new ...