Amid alarm bells from state government staff over mounting costs to the public related to plugging and remediating abandoned oil and gas wells, the State Land Office has found one avenue to force oil ...

Across the country, agencies are grappling with new requirements for federal funding that helps clean up abandoned oil and gas sites. State officials say they are struggling to comply with Interior ...

Oil giant ConocoPhillips said on Monday it had struck gas off the coast of southeastern Australia after beginning its maiden exploration drilling on. Wireline logs indicated gas columns across two ...

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All across the U.S., there are aging oil and natural gas wells no longer in use. A lot of them don't have anyone on the hook to seal them up. Some estimate over a million such "orphan wells" still ...

A Times-Picayune analysis found that more than 3,600 oil wells drilled on land or in marsh are now in open water. To do so, the newspaper used the U.S. Geological Survey’s historical shoreline maps.