This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. The last California-bound oil tanker to pass through the Strait of Hormuz since war erupted is at the Port of Long ...

California wants to phase out fossil fuels, but still needs gas. That makes for messy politics and a frontrunner saying "I ...

If you are an oil producer with wells in California and global oil prices have risen to over $100 a barrel in the last week, are you going to drill new wells? It's a question that touches the lives of ...

A worker walks near pump jacks operating at the Kern River Oil Field in Bakersfield on Jan. 16, 2015. (File photo by Jae C. Hong/Associated Press) U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright directed a ...

While oil producers and refineries are closing their doors and leaving California, Patrick McDonald, CEO of Carbon Energy Corporation, has found something of a safe haven in Ventura County — an area ...

The Phillips 66 Los Angeles Refinery, shown here in a Nov. 19, 2024, file photo, has now closed. What happens next could be a test case for how the state and local communities should handle future ...

To the editor: While staff writer Blanca Begert is probably correct in predicting higher prices and an oil shortage, the reasons and solutions suggested are hogwash (“California braces for uncertainty ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. California issued more drilling permits, but producers aren’t drilling despite oil prices over $100 per barrel, ...

The Hong Kong-flagged oil tanker New Corolla is seen off Huntington Beach, bound for the Port of Long Beach, recently. (Allen J. Schaben/Los Angeles Times) The last California-bound oil tanker to pass ...