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

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.

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 ...

Since then, 34 other oil platforms have been installed along the coast, and more than 12,000 have been installed around the world. These hulking pieces of infrastructure, however, have finite ...

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 ...

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.

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.

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 ...

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.

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 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 ...

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 ...