A knee-high pipe sticking out of the ground not far from a school. A gurgle in a pond on rolling farmland. A patch of forest undergrowth hiding a long-forgotten, leaking oil well. Relics like these ...

A Times-Picayune analysis found that more than 3,600 oil wells drilled on land or in marsh are now in open water. To do so, the newspaper used the U.S. Geological Survey’s historical shoreline maps.

Research from Iowa State University dove into the potentials of using bio-oils to plug abandoned oil wells. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images) A study by Iowa State University researchers shows the ...

Oil and gas producers will need to step up drilling to sustain or increase output due to rapid declines in production from ...

Mikeal Berthelot, Jr., was navigating the mouth of the Mississippi River in his shrimp boat, a stretch of water he’d traversed many times before. The water was calm. The sun beat down. His deckhand ...

A look at the map of global oil reserves for 2024, and all you will see is a handful of countries dominating the scene. According to the Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), world ...