INDEPENDENCE TOWNSHIP — An explosion at an orphan well site in Independence Township injured six people Monday morning, most of them critically, according to local officials. The Ohio Department of ...

BRIDGEPORT, W.Va. (WSAZ)- West Virginia Gov. Patrick Morrisey announced the creation of the Mountain State Plugging Fund, a ...

At the time, the well was among the nearly 8,600 known orphaned wells across the state. But according to data released from ...

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 ...

Multiple people are seriously hurt after an oil rig explosion in Washington County, Ohio.Washington County is located in eastern Ohio, near West Virginia. According to the fire chief, at least six ...

The dry weather caused the surrounding field to catch fire, but Chief Springer says it was all put out quickly.

UPTON COUNTY — A sinkhole around an old well is growing at an alarming rate on the Kelton Ranch in this West Texas county. Radford Grocery #17 was originally drilled as an oil well in the 1950s and ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Crews made key progress in plugging BP's blown-out Gulf oil well Wednesday as a report said much of the spilled crude is gone, twin victories that heartened leaders who have taken ...

EDWARDS COUNTY, Ind. (WEHT) — An explosion in Edwards County, Illinois injures three workers with Dee Drilling Company, according to the Edwards County Sheriff’s Office. Officials with Edwards County ...