Drilling for oil and gas has a long history in the U.S., dating all the way back to 1859 when the first successful commercial oil well — the Drake Well — was drilled in northwestern Pennsylvania. This ...

(The Center Square) — Pennsylvania has hundreds of thousands of orphan and abandoned gas and oil wells scattered across the state. More state and federal money has been dedicated to cleaning them up, ...

MIDLAND, Texas — In the oil and gas industry, there is a focus on plugging wells that have likely reached the end of their production period. Texas has its own fund that helps plug abandoned wells, ...

The agency under-counted abandoned wells by more than half, which means the effort covers only a fraction of the cost. In January, the Department of the Interior stated what many have suspected: there ...

The Pennsylvania governor has been focused on filling abandoned wells, burnishing his green credentials as Vice President Kamala Harris prepares to pick a running mate. CLARION COUNTY, Pennsylvania — ...

WELL, MIKE SHANNON, A CONTRACTOR, IS AT WORK PLUGGING IN ABANDONED GAS. WELL, THERE’S ACTUALLY BENEATH THE DRIVEWAY OF THIS HOME IN EMSWORTH FOR DECADES, IT WAS COVERED BY NOTHING MORE THAN A FRYING ...

This article was originally published by Thomson Reuters Foundation, the charitable arm of Thomson Reuters. CLEVELAND, Ohio — For years, the smell of gas wafting through the grounds of the Franciscan ...

An abandoned well is seen on the property of Cheryl and Joe Thomas in Duke Center, Pa., on April 25, 2023. With the help of millions of dollars in federal funding, Pennsylvania has plugged more oil ...

In 1927, during the prolonged drought that spanned from the early 1920s to the late 1930s in the midst of Montana’s oil boom, a small outfit named L.W. Hill drilled a 900-foot well into the dusty ...