...could go higher if Middle East tensions rise, more refinery problems emerge or hurricanes in the Gulf of Mexico force oil drillers or refiners to shut down. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration this week said this could be a more active...

...heat the house with it. Alaska's Prudoe Bay has many trillions of cubic feet of natural gas. It's a nuisance to oil drillers who must pump it back (reportedly enough to heat half of America's houses) into the earth when it comes up with...

...tree were $165 million in tax breaks over the next five years for mutual life insurance companies, $82 million for oil drillers and $6.5 billion for U.S. companies with offshore financial subsidiaries. The GOP plan would have cost the government...

...Mikles, 55, has never had a problem performing in front of people. In Elk City, Okla., he worked as a farmer and an oil driller, and by night, he played the piano at area dinner clubs. Carl Norquist (Stanley Mikles) gets beat handily in a game...

...tale of Bruce Willis and his team of world-saving oil drillers has been underrated ever since. The headline on the...about the wrong stuff," one character says of the oil drillers. Nah - if you're in the right mindset, this big...

...that we should let corporations write their own environmental impact statements. That is sort of like having the oil drillers write the safety regulations for deep water drilling. I believe that the requirement should be that they have at least...