On the Arabian peninsula, U.S. oil giant Chevron has launched a $340-million pilot project to extract heavy oil from beneath the desert sands. WSJ's Ben Casselman reports from Wafra, Kuwait.

have called in daredevil Texan Paul Adair, 46, president of Houston’s Red Adair Oil Well Fires & Blowouts Control Co. Affluence in Red. Flame-haired “Red” Adair learned his rare trade in 16 ...

does not include the western Gulf of Mexico where Shell’s new Whale facility is located. Shell expects the site to produce the equivalent of 100,000 barrels of oil a day at peak output.

(Bloomberg) -- The highway leading west from Saudi Arabia’s capital city weaves through reddish dunes in the Ad-Dahna Desert ... away from a dependency on oil by nurturing industries such ...