Videos tagged "petroleum"

The process by which an oil or gas well is drilled is complex and the basic process has changed little in the last hundred years. Hard working men and sometimes women, known as roughnecks toil away in every...

Two Stanford professors argue that anyone with a deep bank account and a little knowledge can control the price of crude

Oil prices rose Thursday in Asia above $116 a barrel as investors mulled a fall in U.S. gasoline inventories and a possible output tightening by OPEC at its next meeting in September

Regulators had long classified a private Swiss energy conglomerate called Vitol as a trader that primarily helped industrial firms that needed oil to run their businesses.

A new report released by marketing research firm Emerging Energy Research (EER) highlights the US' booming wind energy market. According to their report, the US is on track to be generating 150 gigawatts of energy from wind power alone by 2020. While this

Oil fell to its lowest price in three months Friday, briefly touching the $111 level after the dollar muscled higher and OPEC predicted the world?s thirst for fuel next year will fall to its lowest point since 2002