A gas leak from an abandoned oil well in the middle of a Newport Beach neighborhood has forced the city to declare a local ...

An abandoned oil well leak in a Newport Beach neighborhood has sparked a local emergency, and could even lead to homes being ...

The state of California is teaming up with Newport Beach to seal a methane leak from an abandoned oil well that prompted a local emergency in October.

An increasingly hot-button issue, oil rigs have become the physical embodiment of larger economic and environmental debates, garnering praise from conservative politicians and the ire of environmental ...

Later today, oil services and technology company Baker Hughes will release its U.S. rig count, which is the tally of active oil rigs in the country. Since the spring, rig count has declined, reaching ...

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Try as so many private and government organizations might, switching everywhere on Earth over to clean, renewable energy — including some strange sources being explored — is still a long way away.

There's no denying just what a time commitment working on an oil rig can be, nor how isolated one might feel while doing so. The latter in particular comes with the territory at times: The Perdido oil ...

The total number of active drilling rigs for oil and gas in the United States rose this week, according to new data that ...