(Nanowerk News) In the process of oil extraction, hard mineral buildup inside the pipes and equipment can cause serious operational damage, safety issues such as pipe explosion and significant ...

Discover how steam-assisted gravity drainage (SAGD) revolutionizes heavy oil extraction by making deep oil reserves accessible and economically viable.

Report by Global Oil and Gas Extraction Tracker says it took less than five years for fields to come online between 1960 and ...

Indigenous women in Ecuador's Amazon tour oil fields to highlight the environmental and health impacts of oil extraction, ...

Fossil fuel companies are experimenting with using carbon dioxide captured from the air in oil extraction to usher in a new era of planet-friendly “net-zero oil” – but the idea is an illusion, ...

A bill in Guatemala’s congress would renew a contract for the current oil and gas pipeline in Laguna del Tigre National Park and make it easier to contract future drilling. The region’s largest oil ...

At present, oil extraction in the United States sits at record levels of roughly 13.2 million barrels per day. No wonder oil is so expensive. Wait, what’s that you say? U.S. extraction at record ...

Martina Jakubchik-Paloheimo works with Global Indigenous Development Trust, a Canadian Indigenous social enterprise and registered charity founded in 2014. As well as Inisha Nunka, an Indigenous led ...