The rapidly-growing sinkhole in Upton County is the latest of many problems caused by old wells in the Permian Basin.

Amidst growing concerns over the renewed efforts by the Cross River State Government to reclaim the 76 oil wells ceded to the ...

A sinkhole around an old oil well is growing at an alarming rate on the Kelton Ranch in West Texas. Radford Grocery #17 was ...

The Nigerian Senate has constituted an ad-hoc committee to investigate alleged annexation of maritime territories, mangrove ...

The State Lands Commission has finished abandoning two more legacy oil wells on the Summerland coast. These leaking wells in ...

This story was produced in partnership with the Pulitzer Center. It is part three in a four-part series. Read part one here ...

Moving from fossil fuels to renewable energy sources like wind and solar will require better ways to store energy for use when the sun is not shining or the wind is not blowing. A new study by ...

Companies are legally required to plug spent wells and reclaim the land but ballooning underfunded cleanup liabilities have ...

Amid growing concerns over renewed efforts by the Cross River State Government to reclaim the 76 oil wells ceded to Akwa Ibom in 2012, Governor Umo Eno has urged the people to keep praying and ...

U.S. shale needs much higher oil prices than $50 per barrel, and even higher than the current WTI Crude price in the high ...

Artificial intelligence is speeding up oil and gas drilling and prompting companies to take a second look at places they had ...