Outside the small town of Pierce, Colorado, a group of old wells were shut down six years ago when they stopped producing oil. But a startup now wants to repurpose the wells for a geothermal ...

A bipartisan effort is underway to address thousands of abandoned oil and gas wells across Pennsylvania and the nation. U.S.

But this cherished practice is under threat from a toxic legacy: abandoned and orphaned oil and gas wells. The San Juan Basin, particularly within the Navajo Eastern Agency, has endured over a ...

A pair of abandoned oil wells that were leaking into a lake at an Ottawa County park have been cleaned out and capped off.

The environmental harm of oil and gas wells doesn’t end when the pumping stops. If disused wells remain unplugged — the term of art for closing them up with concrete and remediating the enviro ...

In arid West Texas, water seeps and bubbles from old wells, sometimes carrying oil, brackish water or other pollutants to the surface. But the real danger lies underground — where oil ...

12/31/2024 UPDATE: Work is underway to plug an abandoned oil well ... around a hole dug on South Louisville Avenue. The trench was left open because an old oil well is leaking natural gas.

In arid West Texas, water seeps and bubbles from old wells, sometimes carrying oil, brackish water or other ... the 60-acre Lake Boehmer formed when an abandoned well began releasing large amounts ...

The Ondo State government has said the Oke-Agor-Isekun, an island where an abandoned oil well was discovered ... two distinct states in the South West, with well-defined boundaries.