Try as so many private and government organizations might, switching everywhere on Earth over to clean, renewable energy -- including some strange sources being explored-- is still a long way away.

FILE - A plume of smoke rises from fires on BP's Deepwater Horizon offshore oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico on April 21, 2010. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File) NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Fifteen years after the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Feb. 5—Work has started to remove the wreckage and remediate damage after a massive oil rig tipped over and crashed to the tundra ...

Gulf Energy has secured an onshore oil rig in the Middle East, signaling a major boost to its plan of delivering first oil from the South Lokichar Basin in Turkana before the end of the year. In a ...

The U.S. rig count held steady at 551 as oil drilling declined, gas activity increased, and crude production edged closer to record highs despite weakening completion activity.

Kevin O'Connor spends four weeks at a time working on an offshore oil rig. Meredith Wilshere is a Society and Culture writer at PEOPLE. Her work has previously appeared on PS, Stylecaster, Business ...

The total number of active drilling rigs for oil and gas in the United States stayed the same this week, according to new data that Baker Hughes published on Friday. The total rig count in the US ...