Neglected oil and gas wells are coming back to life in Texas, harming the environment and challenging Texas regulators.

Fracking wastewater, injected underground for permanent disposal, traveled 12 miles through geological faults before bursting to the surface through a previously plugged West Texas oil well in 2022, ...

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 ...

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 ...

More than three-quarters of U.S. wells make just 6% of the country's oil. They're called marginal wells because of their small output. But they're... Why a tiny bit of oil can be a big deal A century ...

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State-owned Oil India Limited (OIL) has successfully capped a well on GeoEnpro Petroleum’s (GEPL) Kharsang oilfield in ...

Dan Arthur, the president and chief engineer of ALL Consulting, stands beside a defunct oil well in the Tallgrass Prairie Preserve in Oklahoma on March 20, 2024. The well has not been used for years — ...