BACKYARD OIL follows the fortunes of the most boot-strappin' oil men in all of Appalachia - mogul Jimmy Reliford and his sidekick Mad Dog; Coomer, who's raking in $300-thousand a month thanks to an ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Thousands of backyard oil refineries are scattered across parts of Syria, and millions of displaced residents rely on them for fuel to survive. But working inside these ...

The year was 1973, and the Houston oil patch was booming. Half-brothers Dickie Hartis and Lawrence Whitworth were working in the oil industry when they decided to start their own sheet metal ...

I took a geology class not long ago and read about a guy that had massive amounts of coal underneath his ranch. The dude sold the ranch, made millions, and moved into a penthouse. Granted, I live in ...

The initial discovery of oil in Pennsylvania by Edwin Drake in 1859 was to forever change our uses of energy in the United States and globally. This discovery led to multiple oil rushes in the history ...

After two spills among the wind turbines of the Altamont Pass, Shell Oil Co. is replacing more than 12 miles of pipeline that carries crude from Central Valley oil fields. Two ruptures in September ...

It was April 29, 2008, almost 14 years ago now that I wrote my first Ocean Backyard column. Today marks column No. 362 and for those of you who may have missed a few of these and can’t wait to read ...

Thousands of backyard oil refineries are scattered across parts of Syria, and millions of displaced residents rely on them for fuel to survive. But working inside these hellish facilities is dangerous ...