Chesapeake Energy spokesperson Gordon Pennoyer has confirmed a third person who was hurt after an oil well blowout in Burleson County has died. A fourth person was also hurt, but their condition at ...

WELD COUNTY, Colo. — It's expected to take five years to clean up after a Chevron-operated oil well blowout in Weld County in April. Chevron has already hauled out 7,000 cubic yards of soil and 89,000 ...

Ten years after an oil rig explosion killed 11 workers and unleashed an environmental nightmare in the Gulf of Mexico, companies are drilling in deeper and deeper waters, where payoffs can be huge but ...

BISMARCK, N.D. _ A blowout at an oil well site four miles south of Watford City will likely take days to stop, a state regulator said Friday. North Dakota Department of Mineral Resources director Lynn ...

GALETON, Colo. — More than six weeks after an uncontrolled blowout at a Chevron-operated oil and gas well near Galeton, only five of the 14 families who evacuated have returned home. The blowout at ...

DENVER (KDVR) — A month after an oil and gas well blowout occurred in Weld County, some of the residents who were evacuated because of potential health impacts are still not back in their homes. On ...

Oil India Limited (OIL) has finalised the capping of oil well KSG 76 at the Kharsang oilfield in the Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh following a blowout that resulted in an uncontrolled gas release.

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WASHINGTON — The Obama administration wants to know when offshore companies will be ready to rein in runaway wells -- a major hurdle it says is holding up new deep-water drilling in the Gulf of Mexico ...

A sinkhole in Upton County formed around an oil well that was plugged in the 1970s. The property owners and visitors stand on the edge of the sinkhole's far side. Credit: Martha Pskowski/Inside ...