A study by Iowa State University researchers shows the viability of using bio-oils to plug abandoned oil wells, an ...

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 ...

The Department of the Interior announced Thursday that it was awarding the state of Arkansas $5.59 million to plug and reclaim about 274 orphaned oil and gas wells in the state. Orphaned, or abandoned ...

Colorado’s Energy and Carbon Management Commission recently announced that 33 oil and gas well operators would receive grant funding to cover the costs of plugging marginal natural gas wells, which ...

When it comes to environmental responsibility, New Mexico’s oil and gas industry is not just stepping up — we’re leading the way. In recent years, oil and gas operators plugged over 90% of the wells ...

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply. No state has punched more holes in its bedrock than the Lone Star State ...

SACRAMENTO, Calif.— Gov. Gavin Newsom today signed a bill into law that will significantly increase the minimum number of idle oil and gas wells companies must plug each year or pay increased fees.

KANSAS (KSNT) – The Kansas Corporation Commission (KCC) State Plugging Program, a program to save abandoned oil and gas wells across the state from environmental disaster, is waiting for $33.6 million ...

PIERRE, S.D. (KELO) — An Iowa man who’s no longer living on his own has agreed to let permits be revoked for six wells in the Barker Dome oil field in southwestern South Dakota. But the $100,000 ...