The Well Done Foundation has spent the last year plugging abandoned oil wells, dating back to the early 1900s, in the Deep Fork National Wildlife Refuge.

Researchers at Iowa State University have discovered a unique and environmentally friendly solution of utilizing crop waste to seal abandoned oil wells and capture carbon by permanently sequestering ...

A Times-Picayune analysis found that more than 3,600 oil wells drilled on land or in marsh are now in open water. To do so, the newspaper used the U.S. Geological Survey’s historical shoreline maps.

As land is further developed in Los Angeles County, multiple sources need to shed light on oil well mapping, writes Richard White of LightBox. Oil pumpjacks near Fellows, California, in Kern County. A ...

Oklahoma took on an ambitious project to catalog all of the state’s injection wells, which shoot toxic waste generated by oil ...

Montana’s first oil well was drilled in what is now Glacier National Park near the head of Kintla Lake back in 1901. One hundred and twenty-five years later, Glacier will have the well plugged.