Officials report the old wells have leaked oil, natural gas and brine into the soil. (Photo by J Pat Carter/Getty Images) The number of abandoned wells increased 12% across the U.S. since the ...

In arid West Texas, water seeps and bubbles from old wells, sometimes carrying oil, brackish water or other pollutants to the surface ...

OIL CITY, LOUISIANA - MARCH 8: An orphaned well with a temporary cap sits in the backyard of a home ... [+] owned by Rickey Jordan in Oil City, Louisiana on March 8, 2023. (Photo by Cooper Neill ...

Local media stated that Kamanzi disclosed that 13 wells in Lake Kivu confirmed ... Nigeria and Angola to lead Africa’s oil output According to a Vanguard report, Rwanda-backed forces have ...

Kuwaiti oil wells were set alight en masse, creating towering infernos that blackened the sky. As it turns out, extinguishing a burning oil well is no easy feat. In the face of this environmental ...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California taxpayers could be on the hook for more than $500 million to plug thousands of so-called “orphan” wells drilled and abandoned by oil and gas companies, according to a ...

(Reuters) - The pace of U.S. upstream public-to-public mergers could slow in 2025 from their recent average of five per year ...

According to a 2023 report from Sierra Club California, plugging all of California’s onshore oil and gas wells would cost about $23 billion. Yet the oil industry has set aside only $106 million in ...

"Acting promptly on this report, NB Epe, in collaboration with officials from the Ogun State Government, conducted a joint visit to Oke-Agor-Isekun, the site of the abandoned oil well. Oke-Agor ...

Long-forgotten oil and gas wells are coming back to life in West Texas, harming the environment and confounding Texas regulators. Here’s what to know about the issue. They are wells that should ...