Old wells also pose a risk of blowouts — and in extreme cases, explosions. In January 2019, a 1930s-vintage oil well erupted in Marina del Rey, where a hotel was under construction. No one was injured ...

An estimated 880,000 abandoned oil and gas wells dot the United States. These orphaned wells, some of which were deserted as long as a century ago, can leak toxic oil and gas into the groundwater ...

The cost of plugging an oil or gas well varies, but states report average costs between $3,500 and $80,000 per well. (Wright said the average cost of plugging in Oklahoma is around $25,000.) ...

The Los Angeles City Council voted Friday to phase out all oil drilling in L.A. and ban new wells, a historic move in a city that was built by a once-booming petroleum industry and whose residents ...

A Times analysis shows that increasingly complex oil and gas wells now require astonishing volumes of water to fracture the bedrock and release fossil fuels, threatening America’s fragile aquifers.

More than three-quarters of U.S. oil wells, collectively, make just 6% of the country's oil. They're called marginal wells because of how small their output is. But they're a big deal.

Fixing oil wells with emulsion or wettability problems is a huge portion of the remedial stimulation industry, which is itself cozily connected to the initial completions industry.

As oil-well backlog shrinks, U.S. shale may upset investors and drill more. By Arathy Somasekhar. September 14, 2021 2:04 PM UTC Updated September 14, 2021 A pump jack operates ...

Old oil wells crowd the Louisiana coast. Many wells are old and poorly maintained. An increasing number are being abandoned and put under the care of the state.

The claim: Images show comparison of lithium mine and oil well. An April 3 Facebook video (direct link, archive link) shows an image of an oil rig in a green field followed by an image of an open ...

Global demand for oil from combustible fossil fuels could peak as early as 2027, according to the International Energy Agency ...

Tidelands Oil Production Co. is one firm that has skirted such cleanups. A subsidiary of the drilling company California Resources Corp., Tidelands operates wells in Wilmington, some of which have ...