A pumpjack is not a coal mine. No, that's not the opening line to an avant garde poem. It's another way of saying: Coalbed methane mining is not mining for coal. In fact, it's quite different. Coalbed ...

Jul. 17—Oil well pumpjacks are, in general, pretty dumb pieces of machinery. On any given day, about a million of them bob up and down in oil fields across the U.S., pulling crude and sometimes ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NEW MEXICO (KRQE) — An Oklahoma man is facing charges for a scheme to steal pumpjacks from New Mexico oilfields. Jonathan Stamper ...

DNA is unwound by a type of “pumpjack” mechanism, similar to the way one operates on an oil rig, a team of scientists suggests. This finding is based on new close-up images of the proteins that unwind ...