Most US oil and natural gas production is concentrated in a handful of states, which together supply much of the nation’s crude. The US is a net exporter of oil and natural gas, though it still ...

An emergency repair to cap an abandoned oil well leaking oil and methane gas under a house on the Balboa Peninsula is taking longer than expected due to unforeseen technical challenges encountered ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Rancher Laura Briggs rises early to care for the livestock scattered across her homestead on the arid plains of West Texas. Briggs ...

TOM GREEN COUNTY — Some Texas oil wells gush hundreds of barrels of oil a day. But many are like the wells on Jackie Chesnutt’s ranch in West Texas that only trickle out a couple barrels a month.

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Southern California’s commercial real estate industry doesn’t want to drink each other’s proverbial milkshakes — they want to build on top of them. Yet redeveloping land used for oil extraction is ...

Contractors have been able to dig their way into an out-of-control oil well through the shallow marshes of southern Plaquemines, cut off a failed piece of the equipment and stop the 82-year-old ...

A sinkhole in Upton County formed around an oil well that was plugged in the 1970s. The property owners and visitors stand on the south side. Credit: Martha Pskowski/Inside Climate News UPTON COUNTY, ...

This article is co-published with ProPublica; it was created as part of the Local Reporting Network in partnership with The Frontier. In January 2020, Danny Ray started a complicated job with the ...