The newly confirmed reservoir stretches from offshore New Jersey to Maine and may contain enough water to supply New York ...

The Obama administration reversed course today and decided against opening Atlantic waters to oil and gas leasing, likely ensuring that drilling won’t occur off the East Coast for the foreseeable ...

North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory is bashing the federal proposal to include a 50-mile buffer between the coastline and drilling for oil and gas in the Atlantic Ocean, telling a U.S. House subcommittee ...

CHARLESTON, SC (AP) — The federal government has received thousands of comments on the contentious issue of drilling for oil and gas off the Atlantic coast. The federal Bureau of Ocean Energy ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — In a major reversal, the Obama administration said Tuesday it will bar oil drilling in the Atlantic Ocean, a move cheered by environmentalists and consistent with the president's ...

With the United States is currently producing record amounts of oil and natural gas, thanks to fracking and other new technologies, the government is eyeing the possibility of conducting offshore ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) - The five congressmen representing coastal districts in the Carolinas reflect the opposing views in their states on offshore drilling. Govs. Nikki Haley and Pat McCrory are in ...

The Obama administration floated a plan Tuesday that for the first time would open up a broad swath of the Atlantic Coast to drilling, even as it moved to restrict drilling indefinitely in ...

Statoil and its partners have contracted the West Phoenix rig for exploration drilling on the U.K. and Norwegian continental shelves from the summer of 2018. The contract is awarded to the two ...