All across the U.S., there are aging oil and natural gas wells no longer in use.A lot of them don't have anyone on the hook to seal them up. Some estimate over a million such "orphan wells" still ...

It's a game of hide and seek that could impact your drinking water, the air you breath, or even have explosive consequences.

Shell has been granted environmental authorisation to drill up to five deep-water wells off South Africa's west coast, the ...

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 ...

At the end of their lives, oil and gas wells need to be plugged. But it can be expensive and doesn't always work.

Equinor's latest exploration well in Norway's Barents Sea has hit natural gas instead of the oil that was hoped for. The 7220 ...

In a groundbreaking study published in Communications Earth & Environment, researchers from the University of Manchester have ...

An effort to find abandoned and orphaned oil and gas wells so that they can be plugged will make its way this summer to Ross and Shaler. After metal-detecting drones found 250 such wells in eight ...

Exciting developments in the North Sea! OKEA has started drilling at the Brage field, aiming for new hydrocarbon discoveries. ️ #OKEA #NorthSea #OilExploration #BrageField #EnergyNews ...

Of the yet-to-be-discovered oil on U.S. federal lands, about half is believed to be in Alaska, according to the new estimate.