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 — ...

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) -- New York state regulators claim a strong record of oil and gas drilling oversight, but their own reports reveal thousands of unplugged abandoned wells and other industrial ...

The California Department of Conservation is facing heavy criticism after it determined a colossal merger of two oil and gas companies is exempt from a state law designed to ensure depleted wells are ...

KANSAS (KSNT) – Five abandoned oil and gas wells identified in Kansas pose threats to surface water, groundwater and public safety, according to the Kansas Corporation Commission (KCC). Since the ...

In this file photo, a rig and supply vessel are viewed in the Gulf of Mexico off the cost of Louisiana, April 10, 2011. Thousands of oil and gas wells in the Gulf of Mexico no longer in use need to be ...

A sinkhole around an old oil well is growing at an alarming rate on the Kelton Ranch in West Texas. Radford Grocery #17 was originally drilled as an oil well in the 1950s and later converted to a ...

A 200-foot-wide sinkhole is growing at an alarming rate around an abandoned oil well in Texas, according to the family that owns the land but not the oil. The air around the massive crater in West ...

Contractors have been able to dig their way into an out-of-control oil well through the shallow marshes of southern Plaquemines, cut off a failed piece of the equipment and stop the 82-year-old ...

The global oil market is expected to remain well supplied through the end of the decade, a global energy watchdog said, though rising geopolitical risks in the Middle East and unresolved trade ...

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 ...