A Free Press investigation of serious incidents ... the day after Thanksgiving — when an explosion occurred at an oil well and tank battery in Oakland County's White Lake Township.

Contractors have been able to dig their way into an out-of-control oil well through the shallow marshes of southern Plaquemines, cut off a failed piece of the equipment and stop the 82-year-old ...

However, cleanup of the area surrounding the 83-year-old oil well at the heart of the spill is still ongoing. The well, operated by Spectrum Opco, was first noted as spilling an oil and gas ...

Federal authorities are seeking to contain and clean up the damage from a decades-old oil well in southeast Louisiana that spewed crude and natural gas for more than a week. “Gaining control of the ...

Around 4pm local time on Saturday, the Coast Guard received reports of a crude oil and natural gas discharge from a shut-in well owned and operated by Spectrum OpCo, a subsidiary of Houston-based ...

Contractors on Tuesday worked to try and control an 82-year-old oil well that is leaking into the marshes of southern Plaquemines Parish as response workers set up absorbent booms and deployed ...

DENVER (KDVR) — A well that was releasing water with some oil and gas at a Chevron oil and gas facility in Weld County was contained Thursday and was sealed on Friday. Weld County announced in a ...

WELD COUNTY, Colo — Five days after an oil well incident near Galeton in northern Colorado, the well is sealed but residents are still waiting for the go-ahead to return home. The incident ...

The Alberta Energy Regulator says there are nearly 500,000 licensed oil and gas wells across the province, although only about 50,000 are active. As a condition of well licenses companies are ...

A decommissioned pumpjack is shown at a well head on an oil and gas installation near Cremona, Alta., Saturday, Oct. 29, 2016. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jeff McIntosh One of those recommendations is to ...