Undocumented orphaned wells pose hazards to both the environment and the climate. Scientists are building modern tools to help locate, assess, and pave the way for ultimately plugging these forgotten ...

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 ...

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. The vast ...

Outside the small town of Pierce, Colorado, a group of old wells were shut down six years ago when they stopped producing oil. But a startup now wants to repurpose the wells for a geothermal energy ...

Equinor has announced plans to drill 250 oil and gas exploration wells in Norwegian waters over the next decade as part of ...

The State Lands Commission has re-abandoned six oil and gas wells in Summerland, including the Well A and Well B project finished in February. Credit: State Lands Commission photo The State Lands ...

Maria Burns watched with satisfaction as a three-story-high drilling rig made a racket in her front yard. Normally, the loudest thing on this residential street in Ashland, Ohio, would be the barking ...

Until recently, Forrest Smith was the sole employee at the National Park Service responsible for cleaning up dozens of abandoned oil and gas wells at national parks across the country. But in ...

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) are not ...