Abandoned oil and gas wells can pollute the water ... “Almost half of the remaining active wells in the Gulf of Mexico are either approaching or are already past the end of their useful life ...

The team also looked for leaks in the Gulf of Mexico ... one of the nation’s oldest and most productive oil fields, thousands of abandoned wells lie buried beneath the city’s development ...

The State Lands Commission has finished abandoning two more legacy oil wells on the Summerland coast. These leaking wells in ...

Researchers have found a way to enhance compressed-air energy storage (CAES) by utilizing geothermal heat in abandoned oil ...

Abandoned and orphaned oil wells in West Texas are causing costly environmental hazards like sinkholes and leaks, prompting ...

State Plugging Program, a program to save abandoned oil and gas wells across the state from environmental disaster, is ...

Aging and abandoned oil wells in West Texas are causing significant environmental damage, public health risks, and financial ...

Three Gulf Coast states are calling on the Trump administration to rescind a Biden-era rule that aimed to secure billions of dollars from oil companies for cleanup of abandoned offshore wells and ...

MORE: Abandoned oil and gas wells in US bring fears of leak dangers ... drilling on America's East and West coasts, the Eastern Gulf of Mexico and Alaska's North Bering Sea.

Volatile oil ... and gas wells en masse, particularly in the Permian Basin straddling Texas and New Mexico. Those two states are already responsible for cleaning up about 7,000 such abandoned ...

The Kelton Ranch is a few miles outside McCamey in rural Upton County. McCamey is one of countless Texas towns formed in an ...

Moving from fossil fuels to renewable energy sources like wind and solar will require better ways to store energy for use when the sun is not shining or the wind is not blowing. A new study by ...