The more than $3 billion investment from Australian company Santos is Alaska’s first new oil project in decades.

The drilling rig toppled last week during ConocoPhillips’ winter seismic and exploration work. An oil rig traveling in the far reaches of Alaska’s North Slope crashed last week, renewing concerns ...

An oil drilling rig holding more than 150,000 gallons of diesel, lubricating oil, and hydraulic fluid has run aground near Kodiak Island in the Gulf of Alaska, after it was being towed during a storm.

When John Kurz left Alaska’s North Slope in 2009, he was staring at a grim future for what had once been the country’s ...

ConocoPhillips (COP) said Tuesday it anticipates no impact to its Alaska drilling plans after a rig set for exploration and pre-drilling at its Willow development toppled over last month. The rig - ...

When the Pikka oil and gas field was discovered in 2013, industry leaders hailed it as the beginning of a renaissance on the North Slope that would extend the life of the trans-Alaska oil pipeline.

According to Foreign Policy magazine, recent trends in wireless automation on oil rigs have opened doors to hackers with system knowledge. Earlier this year, federal charges were brought against a ...

NEW YORKNEW YORK — BP brands itself a friend of the environment, an energy company that goes “beyond petroleum.” That image, worth billions of dollars, is being sullied by the company’s inability to ...