We found abandoned oil and gas wells were leaking methane into groundwater," study author Samuel Shaheen told Newsweek.

It’s impossible to know who the first person to discover oil on the banks of Oil Creek in Venango County was, because by the ...

Forrest Smith was forced to step down last month as the National Park Service’s chief petroleum engineer. He wasn’t replaced.

A knee-high pipe sticking out of the ground not far from a school. A gurgle in a pond on rolling farmland. A patch of forest undergrowth hiding a long-forgotten, leaking oil well. Relics like these ...

KUWAIT CITY, Nov 6: Kuwait on Thursday commemorated the 34th anniversary of extinguishing the last oil well set ablaze by the ...

An abandoned century-old oil well has wreaked havoc on a remote Texas town and made a family-owned ranch 'unstable.' A ...

Converting Southern California oil wells into commercial projects is a real estate gusher, but comes with enhanced risk.

Geochemists at Penn State’s College of Earth and Mineral Sciences recently found in a study that retired oil and gas wells ...

As season 2 of the popular Paramount+ "Landman" drops Sunday, Nov. 16, Southwest Florida fans of the series probably wonder ...

Dan Arthur, the president and chief engineer of ALL Consulting, stands beside a defunct oil well in the Tallgrass Prairie Preserve in Oklahoma on March 20, 2024. The well has not been used for years — ...