The oil industry’s wastewater is becoming a bigger headache for Texas operators and regulators. Here’s what to know about ...

More than 3.5 million abandoned oil and gas wells are littered across the United States and an estimated 14 million Americans ...

State geologists estimate 250 million barrels of oil could be extracted if companies were to build as many as 600 more oil ...

A production forecast is performed on the basis of principle of material balance. The remaining oil and gas in the reservoir determine future inflow performance relationship (IPR) and, therefore, ...

Full financial assurances from buyers for well clean-up costs have stalled all 37 proposed oil well sales in 2023. 41% of California's wells are idle or orphaned, with clean-up costs estimated at ...

Oil wells from the Dutch colonial era lie scattered across Indonesia, polluting the earth and destroying locals' chances at making a living off anything but oil. We visited the workers who risk ...

Scattered across the United States are remnants from almost 170 years of commercial drilling: hundreds of thousands of forgotten oil and gas wells. These undocumented orphaned wells (UOWs ...