Where another pair of workers fit and guide the 1,200-meters of pipe down 400-meters, and over another 800 to run parallel to the surface A mass of oil, sand, and water keep surfaces slick ...

A more than 40-mile long conveyor belt filled with sand stretches from the oil fields of West Texas to New Mexico, all for the purpose of one mission: oil production.

The caller noticed his foot had oil on it after walking on the sand, FLFR said. Ocean Rescue lifeguards told people to avoid the water from Riomar Street south to the Port Everglades inlet and red ...

An oilfield infrastructure company wants to use deep-well injection to sequester billions of barrels of oil sands mine water ...

The development of "oil shale" (not to be confused with "shale oil") and "tar sands" has been shown to be environmentally destructive, and water and energy intensive. Extracting oil from U.S. public ...

Here Syncrude, Canada's largest oil producer, digs bitumen-laced sand from the ground with electric shovels five stories high, then washes the bitumen off the sand with hot water and sometimes ...

Fracking-the high-pressure injection of water, chemicals and sand into shale deposits to release the gas and oil trapped within the rock-in recent years has been combined with horizontal drilling ...

The development of "oil shale" (not to be confused with "shale oil") and "tar sands" has been shown to be environmentally destructive, and water and energy intensive. Extracting oil from U.S. public ...

During fracking, liquid is pumped into the ground at a high pressure to create holes, or fractures, that release oil. The sand helps keep the holes open as water, oil and gas flow through it.