Construction to cap a methane-emitting oil well underneath a Balboa Peninsula neighborhood missed its Christmas Day deadline ...

Despite around-the-clock efforts, crews in Newport Beach have yet to fix a gas leak from an abandoned oil well that's caused ...

Oil workers pull tubing from an orphan well in a field in Luling on March 27, 2025. Credit: Lorianne Willett/The Texas Tribune LULING — Just six minutes from 5,700-person town’s historic city center, ...

An abandoned oil well leak in a Newport Beach neighborhood has sparked a local emergency, and could even lead to homes being torn down.

Police are warning residents to expect noise around the clock for the next 10 days after a 1920s-era abandoned well began leaking oil and methane.

The emergency repairs to cap an abandoned oil well in Newport Beach may miss its Christmas deadline, city staff said.

Hundreds of thousands of old oil and gas wells are spread across Pennsylvania, and some could be leaking harmful chemicals into the atmosphere and groundwater. This is the warning of research led by ...

The number of abandoned oil and gas wells in North Dakota has grown 10% over the past two years to more than 700 amid low oil prices, and state regulators are considering new rules to try to keep the ...

Thousands of abandoned oil wells or platforms dot the waters off Louisiana’s coasts, creating hazards the state isn’t doing enough to mitigate. It’s not that the only responsibility belongs with the ...

State regulators are pushing to plug three oil wells in southern Arkansas that were owned and run by a company that can no longer be located. The Arkansas Oil and Gas Commission wants to plug the ...

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