Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, and Qatar — hold approximately 32.6% of the world’s proven crude oil reserves.

In a legal setback for fossil fuel advocates, a federal court has invalidated a large offshore oil and gas lease sale in the ...

As the Iraqi army retreated at the end of the first Gulf War, they took the term “scorched Earth policy” quite literally. Kuwaiti oil wells were set alight en masse, creating towering infernos ...

Shell Offshore Inc. (Shell), a subsidiary of Shell plc, has announced the start of production at Dover, the second subsea ...

This story appears in the October 2010 issue of National Geographic magazine. On a blistering June day in Houma, Louisiana, the local offices of BP—now theDeepwater Horizon Incident Command ...

In late January 1991 US president George Bush announced the beginning of Operation Desert Storm. Photojournalist Steve McCurry: "The camels fleeing for their lives, trying to find safe-haven ...

This week, we’re on the water. The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management made some new rules to help clean up old oil wells in the Gulf. WWNO's Eva Tesfaye talks with environment and communities ...

A federal district judge on Thursday ruled against a Biden administration sale of oil and gas drilling rights in the Gulf of ...

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