NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks to University of Texas engineering professor Hugh Daigle about why the U.S. imports most of the oil it consumes despite being one of the world's largest oil exporters.

With 131 refineries currently in operation, the United States has long been the global leader in oil processing capacity, but ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Two Purdue University researchers have developed a hydrogenation process that could solidify soybean oil for food processing without creating trans fats, which have been linked ...

FPSO crude separation is a staged, three-phase process that uses pressure letdown, heating, and electrostatic coalescence to split well fluids into stabilized crude, export gas, and treated produced ...

The first new oil refinery to be built on U.S. soil in half a century is set for construction in Texas, the president announced Tuesday.

Trump’s push to lure U.S. oil majors back to Venezuela largely fell flat, with Exxon and ConocoPhillips calling the country uninvestable under current laws and citing past expropriations. Venezuelan ...

While fuel is a well-known product, fuels actually represents only a portion of what is produced from crude oil. The refining process generates a wide range of petroleum-based materials used to ...