A portfolio manager pointed out a “unique” market development that could already be helping to tighten global crude ...

These georeferenced maps provide critical clues about early oil and gas drilling activities. The challenge, however, is sifting through this vast archive to pinpoint potential UOW locations.

Between 1947 and 1992, these maps also used consistent symbols for oil and gas wells: a hollow black circle. “For a human being, looking at this circle and recognizing it is extremely easy ...

Certain oil resources around the world should stay underground to limit rising global temperatures, researchers say. Specific areas of oil reserved should be excluded from extraction in order to ...

The model was trained on about one hundred maps, and was used to sort through topographical maps spanning 45 years. By Mack DeGeurin Published Dec 5, 2024 2:25 PM EST Get the Popular Science daily ...

This map depicts H2S concentrations measured on each oil and gas lease, not at the location of every well. It also does not depict whether, or where, any leaks are occurring or have occurred.

Of the roughly 118,000 western oil wells in high fire risk areas, 103,878 of them — more than 87% — are in California, with 2.6 million residents living in close proximity to them, according ...

SUMMERLAND, Calif. - Another $500,000 is on the way to Heal the Ocean and other groups working to cap leaky oil wells off the nearshore coast in Summerland. The wells were abandoned decades ago ...

HOUSTON—The boom in oil production that over the last decade made the U.S. the world’s largest producer is waning, suggesting the era of shale growth is nearing its peak.

More than three-quarters of U.S. oil wells, collectively, make just 6% of the country's oil. They're called marginal wells because of how small their output is. But they're a big deal.

A Times analysis shows that increasingly complex oil and gas wells now require astonishing volumes of water to fracture the bedrock and release fossil fuels, threatening America’s fragile aquifers.

A Deep Learning Based Framework to Identify Undocumented Orphaned Oil and Gas Wells from Historical Maps: A Case Study for California and Oklahoma. Environmental Science & Technology , 2024; DOI ...