INDEPENDENCE TOWNSHIP — An explosion at an orphan well site in Independence Township injured six people Monday morning, most of them critically, according to local officials. The Ohio Department of ...

We found abandoned oil and gas wells were leaking methane into groundwater," study author Samuel Shaheen told Newsweek.

Multiple people are seriously hurt after an oil rig explosion in Washington County, Ohio.Washington County is located in eastern Ohio, near West Virginia. According to the fire chief, at least six ...

Maria Burns watched with satisfaction as a three-story-high drilling rig made a racket in her front yard. Normally, the loudest thing on this residential street in Ashland, Ohio, would be the barking ...

GEORGETOWN TOWNSHIP, Mich. — Two leaking oil wells from the 1940s have been plugged to prevent further oil spills into an Ottawa County lake. After responding to a kayaker's tip in April 2023, the ...

State regulators are pushing to plug three oil wells in southern Arkansas that were owned and run by a company that can no longer be located. The Arkansas Oil and Gas Commission wants to plug the ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Crews made key progress in plugging BP's blown-out Gulf oil well Wednesday as a report said much of the spilled crude is gone, twin victories that heartened leaders who have taken ...

UPTON COUNTY — A sinkhole around an old well is growing at an alarming rate on the Kelton Ranch in this West Texas county. Radford Grocery #17 was originally drilled as an oil well in the 1950s and ...

The program helps states tackle abandoned wells that can leak planet-warming methane into the air and potentially harmful chemicals into drinking water. A federal program that helps states plug ...