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 environmental harm of oil and gas wells doesn’t end when the pumping stops. If disused wells remain unplugged — the term of art for closing them up with concrete and remediating the enviro ...

GEORGETOWN TOWNSHIP, Mich. — A pair of abandoned oil wells that were leaking into a lake at an Ottawa County park have been cleaned out and capped off. The wells in the Bend Area Open Space Park ...

But this cherished practice is under threat from a toxic legacy: abandoned and orphaned oil and gas wells. The San Juan Basin, particularly within the Navajo Eastern Agency, has endured over a ...

The state could receive around $212 million to plug abandoned wells. But Trump's funding freeze could threaten nearly $90 million.

The Nigerian Navy has foiled an attempt by oil thieves to exploit an abandoned well at Oke-Agor-Isekun, an island near the Ogun and Ondo states boundary. The commander in charge of the Naval Base ...

In arid West Texas, water seeps and bubbles from old wells, sometimes carrying oil, brackish water or other pollutants to the surface. But the real danger lies underground — where oil ...

12/31/2024 UPDATE: Work is underway to plug an abandoned oil well in a neighborhood near 71st and Harvard. Oklahoma Natural Gas responded to reports of a gas leak last week, but determined it wasn ...