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 ...

Abandoned oil wells pose a significant environment and health risk, as they can leak methane — a potent greenhouse gas — into the atmosphere and contaminate groundwater. The total estimated number of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

An 82-year-old oil well drilled before the Allies turned the tide of World War II was spewing an undefined amount of oil, gas and water skyward and into the coastal marshes of southern Plaquemines ...

HOUSTON, April 9 - U.S. oil major Chevron (CVX.N), opens new tab plans to increase the use of a technique that allows it to fracture subterranean rock in three wells at a time in the Permian basin, ...

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 ...