Every year, the world uses roughly 37 billion barrels of oil. Most is burned to power cars, trucks, planes, ships and other types of transport. For more than a century, this energy-dense hydrocarbon ...

Engineers at the University of New South Wales in Sydney have developed a method to convert discarded peanut shells into high-grade graphitic (graphene-like) carbon for potential use in batteries and ...

The low-grade oil has been used to fuel power plants amid Iran’s international isolation. Tanks of mazut may now be burning ...

Clariant's HDMax™ catalyst successfully achieves complete conversion of plastic waste-derived pyoil to cracker-grade ...

As the US–Israel war on Iran escalates, so too does the global oil crisis. The effective closure of the Strait of Hormuz, through which roughly 20% of the world’s oil and natural gas flows, and the ...

Petrochemicals derived from oil and fossil fuels underlie the production of many consumer goods − and many you wouldn’t know from looking at the final product.

NEW YORK (AP) — As the war in Iran ratchets up, the price of crude oil has been swinging sharply. Consumers are already ...

The $5 billion project in the Gulf of Mexico is expected to help produce up to 10 billion barrels of oil by the end of this decade. Critics say it could endanger people and marine life.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. [Getty Images] A fire at an oil refinery in Cuba has been brought under control quickly, as the country faces a deepening fuel ...

A deepening energy crunch across Asia is impacting all corners of the oil market, with suppliers of everything from shipping fuel to cooking gas beginning to cut back on sales in order to manage ...

The U.S. is a net exporter of "crude oil and petroleum products," but in the narrower measure of crude oil by itself — which is the most important factor in determining gasoline prices — the U.S. is a ...