There could be about a million 'orphan' oil and gas wells across the U.S. As they age, they can leak greenhouse gases or ...

Egyptian authorities say an oil-drilling ship capsized in the Gulf of Suez, killing at least four crewmen and leaving four others missing. They say the drilling ship overturned Tuesday evening ...

The agency wants to make it easier to treat and reuse wastewater at drilling sites. Research is advancing, but some skeptics ...

The company is still remediating properties, crops, and testing samples for contamination from a spill in early April.

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How big: 24 acres. How bad: Various metals, PCBs, oil and asbestos were found at the site. It was listed by the state as an inactive hazardous waste site in 1997.

“Sometimes the oil field still surprises us.” One person who’s not surprised is Sarah Stogner, the district attorney for three West Texas counties in the Permian Basin. She’s been warning of rising ...

American energy titan Chevron and French firm TotalEnergies announced the start of production last week from the deep-water Ballymore oil field off the coast of Louisiana and Mississippi, in what ...

Just as climate scientists have warned, new dirty fuel projects continue to move forward despite urgent calls to cut pollution. United Kingdom Prime Minister Keir Starmer recently indicated that his ...

Not only will dirty oil stop performing well, but as more carbon deposits form, even the flow rate will be diminished. Then, a thick goo-like consistency develops, and the oil filter becomes clogged.

FILE - Members of Campaign for a Safe and Healthy California coalition campaign for Keep The Law (SB 1137) next to the Inglewood Oil Field in Inglewood, Calif., March. 22, 2024.

Texas Oil Field Ranked 'No. 1 Worst Polluting Site in the Entire World' in New UN Report "I think of how dirty some of these sites are in Russia and China and so forth.