Despite the boom town’s reputation for lawlessness and excess, Thomas’ story was one of strategic investment and community building.

Christian Wallace investigated the real-life West Texas oil boom before co-creating the series with Taylor Sheridan.

Guyana’s meteoric rise into a global oil powerhouse unfolded under the constant threat of Venezuelan territorial aggression, ...

Venezuela has the largest reserve of crude oil in the world. With Nicolás Maduro no longer in charge, President Donald Trump wants U.S. oil companies to go into Venezuela and revitalize the struggling ...

Mexia’s population surged, businesses sprang up almost overnight and the streets filled with money — and trouble.

It’s boom time in the U.S. oil patch, but storm clouds are gathering. Oil companies are planning to slash payroll — as production surges, demand stagnates and storage tanks around the world fill up.

There was a time, in the first half of the 20th century, when this area was the state’s leader in oil production. In 1882, several wells were drilled south of Owensboro without success. But oil men ...

The world is still processing the dramatic U.S. military raid on Jan. 3 that led to the arrest of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro on long-standing narcoterrorism charges, including cocaine ...

The oil boom in Utah's Dinosaur Country could push a highway through one of last pieces of wilderness in the state. The idea of paving a road through the Book Cliffs for the oil industry was rejected ...

A global crude glut complicates the president’s plans to “get reimbursed for everything that we spend” in the South American petrostate, whose leader was captured by the U.S. on Saturday. Leaders ...

If the U.S. does strike Syria, the price of oil — already at $115 and rising in the Brent index, largely because of political disruptions in Libya, a major producer — is likely to spike. It’s not that ...

American oil refiners stand to be big beneficiaries if Venezuela's vast crude reserves eventually flow more freely into the world market. Refineries along the Gulf ...