Maria Burns watched with satisfaction as a three-story-high drilling rig made a racket in her front yard. Normally, the loudest thing on this residential street in Ashland, Ohio, would be the barking ...

Wildflower-covered hillsides at the Carrizo Plain National Monument in San Luis Obispo County, as photographed on April 2, 2019. Mark Nakamura Nearly a dozen oil wells left idle for years in the ...

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Bob Scott keeps so busy trying to plug forgotten oil and gas wells that he has a hard time keeping count. His northeast Oklahoma district is full of abandoned wells so old they have no records, and ...

The Railroad Commission of Texas issued a total of 626 original drilling permits in September 2024. The total includes 580 to drill new oil or gas wells, 6 to re-enter plugged wellbores, 9 field ...

Equinor Energy AS has plugged a North Sea exploration well following drilling that encountered the Sola formation, but reservoir rocks in the form of sandstone were not present. The well is dry.

GRANT TOWNSHIP — The online publication Marcellus Drilling News headlined the item this way: “Bad Guys Win: PA General Energy to Plug Grant Twp Injection Well.” The Community Environmental Legal ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) " BP's blown-out oil well in the Gulf of Mexico is not yet plugged for good, and work on what's been touted as the permanent solution will need to continue, the federal government ...

California state regulators announced Tuesday their plans to cap orphaned oil wells across the state, including wells in a South Central Los Angeles residential neighborhood near USC that caused ...

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There was a circle in Maria Burns' yard where grass wouldn't grow and trees died. She knew what it was: An old natural gas well, plugged when she... The U.S. has millions of old gas and oil wells.