A sinkhole in Upton County formed around an oil well that was plugged in the 1970s. The property owners and visitors stand on the south side. Credit: Martha Pskowski/Inside Climate News UPTON ...

A sinkhole in Upton County formed around an oil well that was plugged in the 1970s. The property owners and visitors stand on the edge of the sinkhole's far side. Credit: Martha Pskowski/Inside ...

WELD COUNTY, Colo — Five days after an oil well incident near Galeton in northern Colorado, the well is sealed but residents are still waiting for the go-ahead to return home. The incident ...

The U.S. Coast Guard has set up over 15,000 feet of boom to contain the spill off of the coast of Plaquemines Parish. An 83-year-old well is gushing a mixture of crude oil and natural gas into ...

However, cleanup of the area surrounding the 83-year-old oil well at the heart of the spill is still ongoing. The well, operated by Spectrum Opco, was first noted as spilling an oil and gas ...

GALETON, Colo. — A state energy agency is calling a blowout at a Chevron-operated oil well in Weld County an "unprecedented" incident. The blowout occurred April 6 at the Bishop Well near ...

The last company to own this particular well was Geomeg Energy Operating Co., an Aransas Pass-based oil and gas company. This March project was a snapshot of what plugging a well looks like ...

“The oil and gas industry says that they're able to extract oil and gas safely without leaks — well, we have yet to see it,” Ferrar said. “And the people, taxpayers, are the ones who are ...

Contractors on Tuesday worked to try and control an 82-year-old oil well that is leaking into the marshes of southern Plaquemines Parish as response workers set up absorbent booms and deployed ...

Contractors have been able to dig their way into an out-of-control oil well through the shallow marshes of southern Plaquemines, cut off a failed piece of the equipment and stop the 82-year-old ...

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 ...