Oil workers pull tubing from an orphan well in a field in Luling on March 27, 2025. Credit: Lorianne Willett/The Texas Tribune LULING — Just six minutes from 5,700-person town’s historic city center, ...

An abandoned wellhead in the oil field. Legislative analysts predict New Mexico will have to spend hundreds of millions to address 'orphan' wells. (Getty Images) New Mexico could face ballooning costs ...

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 ...

When it comes to environmental responsibility, New Mexico’s oil and gas industry is not just stepping up — we’re leading the way. In recent years, oil and gas operators plugged over 90% of the wells ...

The billions of dollars approved by Congress to clean up abandoned oil and gas wells have been frozen as part of President Donald Trump’s sweeping cuts to government spending, creating concerns that ...

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 ...

When it comes to environmental responsibility, New Mexico’s oil and gas industry is not just stepping up—we’re leading the way. In recent years, oil and gas operators plugged over 90% of the wells ...

CHARLESTON — A major natural gas producer is teaming up with the State of West Virginia on a 20-year plan to fund the plugging of more than 1,000 orphaned wells in the state. Gov. Patrick Morrisey ...