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 ...

Federal authorities are seeking to contain and clean up the damage from a decades-old oil well in southeast Louisiana that spewed crude and natural gas for more than a week. “Gaining control of the ...

Around 4pm local time on Saturday, the Coast Guard received reports of a crude oil and natural gas discharge from a shut-in well owned and operated by Spectrum OpCo, a subsidiary of Houston-based ...

Contractors on Tuesday worked to try and control an 82-year-old oil well that is leaking into the marshes of southern Plaquemines Parish as response workers set up absorbent booms and deployed ...

Town near Fort Collins unsure about future effects, proposed benefits On a gusty day in February, Ben Burke and Johanna Ostrum toured Jennings 1, an idle oil well in Pierce. Hemmed in by a fence ...

GALETON, Colo. — An uncontrolled release from an oil well that prompted evacuations and closed a local elementary school in Galeton has finally been shut off, officials announced Thursday afternoon.

WELD COUNTY, Colo — Five days after an oil well incident near Galeton in northern Colorado, the well is sealed but residents are still waiting for the go-ahead to return home. The incident ...

The Alberta Energy Regulator says there are nearly 500,000 licensed oil and gas wells across the province, although only about 50,000 are active. As a condition of well licenses companies are ...

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 ...

Another orphaned oil well in West Texas erupted with black, salty water this month as state regulators struggle to address problems associated with oil field pollutants. The latest known leak ...

Image by connect11 via iStock Talos Energy Inc. has discovered commercial quantities of oil and gas at the Katmai West #2 well in the Ewing Bank area of the U.S. Gulf of Mexico. The Katmai West #2 ...