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 ...

Capping orphaned oil wells in California to prevent environmental hazards and promote community safety. Solaxy Group Corp. begins capping 6 orphaned oil wells in California, addressing environmental ...

Thousands of oil platforms or related structures dot Gulf waters, including hundreds built on what originally was land. The ...

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 ...

Injecting bio-oil made from corn stalks and forest debris into the deep shafts of abandoned crude oil wells could be a viable form of carbon sequestration, a new Iowa State University study found.

The proposal would allow oil companies to drill new wells, but also require them to abandon and cap existing wells. California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s office is circulating draft bill language that would ...

Filling abandoned oil and gas wells with bio-oil made from plant-based leftovers like corn stalks and forest debris could help remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, returning carbon underground ...