Texas is covered in oil rigs and storage tanks like this, because it’s more expensive to take them down than to just leave them. They can leak chemicals into the ground and water, as well as methane ...

changing the underground layers where oil wells have been drilled over the past century. Ranchers in West Texas have been seeing a trend in growing numbers of abandoned wells exploding and gushing ...

Volatile oil prices are setting ... the Permian Basin straddling Texas and New Mexico. Those two states are already responsible for cleaning up about 7,000 such abandoned wells, a task that ...

There are seven so-called “super major” oil companies in the world, of which three are American, one is French and another is ...

The Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) announced Thursday the signing of a five-year contract with Chet ...

But the liquid puddle in the heart of New Mexico’s most prolific oil basin was indeed fossil fuel that overflowed from a long-since abandoned tankard. Now, almost exactly four years after the ...

This report presents graphs and tables about the global oil rig industry. Drilling rigs are used to access oil and gas fields either on land or offshore. This report provides key figures of this ...

TRINITY BAY, Texas (KTRK) -- During a hot July morning, smoke billowed from a wooden structure surrounding an orphaned oil rig in the middle ... which tested 10 abandoned wells in Trinity Bay.

A family walking on a trail in Texas this weekend made a startling discovery when they spotted an abandoned newborn baby wrapped in a towel. The baby found Saturday evening was “freshly born ...

The price to rent a deepwater drilling rig may climb to near record levels if demand from oil companies continues to increase in the coming years, according to the head of the world’s biggest ...