Barren County Emergency Management Director Garland Gilliam said an anonymous tip was relayed to EPA officials ...

Brazilian state-run oil firm Petrobras has confirmed the presence of oil in a well at its offshore Buzios field, the firm ...

Two years after lawmakers created a $10 million program to address leaking wells in rural counties, none of the money has ...

Drilling on a new swath of ultra-deep crude oil wells in the depths of the Taklamakan Desert, Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, has started after the Spring Festival holiday, the ...

Teaming up with Clint Murchison Sr. and amassing an oil fortune, his influence lives on through his foundation and the Bass ...

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 ...

GEORGETOWN TOWNSHIP, Mich. — 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 wells in the Bend Area Open Space Park ...

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GEORGETOWN TOWNSHIP, Mich. — Two leaking oil wells from the 1940s have been plugged to prevent further oil spills into an Ottawa County lake. After responding to a kayaker's tip in April 2023 ...

Credit: Pu Ying Huang/The Texas Tribune 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 ...