After more than a week of oil shooting vertically out of an unused well off the coast of Louisiana, the U.S. Coast Guard announced Sunday evening that the offshore well blowout — first reported on ...

CO2 injection risks earthquakes, well blowouts, activists warn Texas leads in carbon injection permit applications, faces regulatory challenges Occidental, others confident in CCS safety despite past ...

The Texas Railroad Commission has urgently requested an additional $100 million in emergency funding from state lawmakers as it faces an escalating crisis of leaking and erupting oil wells. The amount ...

The tricky process of sealing an offshore oil well with cement - suspected as a major contributor to the Gulf of Mexico disaster - has failed dozens of times, according to an Associated Press ...

More than six weeks after an uncontrolled blowout at a Chevron-operated oil and gas well near Galeton, only five of the 14 families who evacuated have returned home. The blowout at the Bishop Well ...

Despite President Donald Trump’s calls to “drill, baby, drill,” many oil companies operating in the Gulf of Mexico will likely do what they’ve done for years: sit on hundreds of untapped oil leases ...

WASHINGTON — The Obama administration wants to know when offshore companies will be ready to rein in runaway wells -- a major hurdle it says is holding up new deep-water drilling in the Gulf of Mexico ...

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TEXAS, USA — This article was originally published by our content partners at the Texas Tribune. Read the original article here. Unable to keep up with the growing number of leaking and erupting wells ...