There are thousands of abandoned wells across the country, and governments are often forced to pick up the cost of plugging ...

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 ...

GALETON, Colo. — A state energy agency is calling a blowout at a Chevron-operated oil well in Weld County an "unprecedented" incident. The blowout occurred April 6 at the Bishop Well near ...

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 ...

According to officials, one of Chevron's well locations near Galeton suffered a surface equipment failure that resulted in the release of water and some oil and ... is offering free well testing ...

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 ...