All across the U.S., there are aging oil and natural gas wells no longer in use.A lot of them don't have anyone on the hook to seal them up. Some estimate over a million such "orphan wells" still ...

Monumental Energy Corp. ("Monumental" or the "Company") (TSX-V: MNRG; FSE: ZA6; OTCQB: MNMRF) is pleased to announce good progress on the second workover in the Copper Moki campaign, i.e., at the ...

Choke killing is a common method to control well kick and implement well pressure control of oil and gas in the process of drilling. By adjusting choke valve opening, casing pressure and standpipe ...

An abandoned West Texas oil well has created a 200-foot-wide sinkhole The rapidly-growing sinkhole in Upton County is the latest of many problems caused by old wells in the Permian Basin.

A sinkhole around an old oil well is growing at an alarming rate on the Kelton Ranch in West Texas.

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

A new premilled window system provides another option for completing multilateral wells in the Orinoco heavy oil projects in Venezuela.

Decades underground had corroded the metal casing and cement that sealed the half-mile deep well. Leaking crude oil had stained the casing black. Gas hissed from the rusted, stained well head.

Water is mysteriously bursting from yet another West Texas oil well, continuing a troubling trend.