JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Two corporations bid on a handful of leases during the latest oil and gas lease sale in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge on Friday, a showing critics described as tepid ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Oil company BP scrambled today to assess suspected pipeline corrosion that will shut shipments from the nation's biggest oil field, removing about 8 percent of daily U.S. crude ...

A record-setting lease sale in Alaska’s National Petroleum Reserve contrasted sharply with weak participation in the latest Arctic National Wildlife Refuge auction. Major oil companies avoided the ...

HOUSTON — Global energy leaders have convened here last week, spiffed up in dark suits and polished shoes, to discuss the industry’s most pressing issues: war in the Middle East, Venezuela, artificial ...

Josu Jon Imaz, a former member of European Parliament, runs Spain’s largest oil company. Recently, though, his focus has drifted thousands of miles from Madrid, to the far north. Imaz’s company, ...

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 premiere oil field. Crude production had plummeted to 567,000 barrels per day, ...

Alaska’s long-struggling oil industry is attracting renewed investment as major discoveries in the Arctic and a more supportive regulatory climate revive interest in one of America’s largest untapped ...

As Americans grapple with painful prices at the pump amidst a global oil crisis, some Alaskan lawmakers seem intent on making that pain even worse. The 49th state is debating a tax increase on certain ...