An essential oil extraction process that could cut costs and increase yields

A researcher from Edith Cowan University (ECU) has pioneered an innovative essential oil extraction process that could cut ...
The Washington Post

One of the country’s biggest oil fields just turned to an unexpected power source: Solar

The Belridge oil field near Bakersfield, Calif., is one of the largest in the country. It has been producing oil for more than a century and last year produced about 76,000 barrels a day, according to ...
Mother Earth News

A Pressing Matter: How to Make Oil from Seeds and Nuts

Pumpkin seed oil adds flavor and aroma to cold culinary dishes. Learn how to make oil from seeds right at home! Bevin Cohen shares sunflower oil, pumpkin oil, peanut oil, and walnut oil benefits as ...
Los Angeles Times

Gov. Gavin Newsom fires top official over fracking permits — but won’t ban the oil wells

Reporting from Sacramento — Gov. Gavin Newsom on Friday defended firing California’s top oil industry regulator for issuing too many hydraulic fracturing permits, but offered no details on whether he ...
Oil

Mobile extraction process provides effective site remediation

A mobile version of the dual-phase extraction (DPE) process for remediating sites affected by petroleum product releases has been used effectively in emergency response and where the cost of a fixed ...
The Aspen Times

A return of Colorado’s oil shale boom?

RIFLE, Colo. – A professor from the Colorado School of Mines in Boulder thinks it is possible that oil shale production could return to the Western Slope within a couple of decades. But, stressed ...