A knee-high pipe sticking out of the ground not far from a school. A gurgle in a pond on rolling farmland. A patch of forest undergrowth hiding a long-forgotten, leaking oil well. Relics like these ...

Forrest Smith was forced to step down last month as the National Park Service’s chief petroleum engineer. He wasn’t replaced.

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. The vast ...

There's no denying just what a time commitment working on an oil rig can be, nor how isolated one might feel while doing so. The latter in particular comes with the territory at times: The Perdido oil ...

The U.S. Coast Guard has set up over 15,000 feet of boom to contain the spill off of the coast of Plaquemines Parish. An 83-year-old well is gushing a mixture of crude oil and natural gas into coastal ...

Amplitude Energy’s work at the Basker, Manta and Gummy fields ‘pushed the boundaries of what’s been done in Australia before’ ...

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 ...

First responders look over the site of an explosion Monday at an orphan well in Independence Township within the Wayne National Forest. The Ohio Department of Natural Resources said Tuesday that ...

Ohio state senators are trying to overhaul the program plugging orphaned oil and gas wells. A new measure, Ohio Senate Bill 219, proposes a dedicated fund for the effort, and streamlines notice ...

WASHINGTON COUNTY, Ohio (WTAP) - The Ohio Department of Natural Resources has released an updated statement regarding the orphan well explosion from Monday. The Ohio Department of Natural Resources ...