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 ...

Iraq announced on Wednesday the discovery of a new oil field in Najaf province, near the Saudi border in the southwestern ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A driver for Allied Eagle Transports monitors the transfer of a load of salt water, a byproduct of fracking, to a salt water ...

On a sprawling ranch in Pecos County in late July, oil well control specialist Hawk Dunlap used a backhoe to uncover an abandoned or so-called zombie well that had sprung back to life despite being ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Rancher Laura Briggs rises early to care for the livestock scattered across her homestead on the arid plains of West Texas. Briggs ...

Our investigation found that many operators are paying to keep oil wells idle, avoiding the costly process of sealing them. Central California is home to thousands of oil and gas wells. Some have ...

The blaze lit up the night sky and nearby residents report feeling there house shake from the initial blast with a strong smell of burning across the area ...

The vast majority of U.S. oil wells produce very little oil. That might sound like a paradox, but it's just what happens when geology, economics and policy collide. NPR's Camila Domonoske reports on ...

After a 22-year campaign to close "one of California's most dangerous abandoned oil facilities," state officials have permanently sealed 21 oil wells near USC, according to Gov. Gavin Newsom's Office.

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 ...