GRAND FORKS, N.D. (AP) — The University of North Dakota said Monday it plans to establish a new geology school with help from $10 million in contributions from a major oil company and its chairman, ...

Amid cautious optimism that a "top kill" effort to cap the leaking well causing the Gulf oil spill is working, President Obama banned new offshore drilling Thursday until further notice.

To some of his colleagues in the inner circles of international rock science, Harry Cook is the Indiana Jones of the U.S. Geological Survey. The Redwood City geologist packs a 9mm pistol and thick ...

AZURE HOLDING GROUP and Vision Oil And Gas has conducted extensive preliminary geological and engineering to evaluate the potential in the company's deep mineral rights associated with their Cochran ...

Brazil's environmental agency Ibama greenlit state-run oil company Petrobras to conduct exploratory research by drilling ...