Drilling for oil and gas has a long history in the U.S., dating all the way back to 1859 when the first successful commercial oil well — the Drake Well — was drilled in northwestern Pennsylvania. This ...

CLAIMS OVER RECALLED CPAP, BIPAPS AND VENTILATORS. GOVERNOR JOSH SHAPIRO HAS ANNOUNCED ANOTHER $44 MILLION WILL GO TOWARD PLUGGING ABANDONED OIL AND GAS WELLS TO REDUCE METHANE EMISSIONS STATEWIDE. IT ...

The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection is overseeing a large oil and gas well-plugging project near Chapman ...

Senate Republicans say inconsistent state standards have slowed down efforts to plug abandoned wells and the Department of Environmental Protection has been slow-walking efforts to fix the problem.

The agency under-counted abandoned wells by more than half, which means the effort covers only a fraction of the cost. In January, the Department of the Interior stated what many have suspected: there ...

The Pennsylvania governor has been focused on filling abandoned wells, burnishing his green credentials as Vice President Kamala Harris prepares to pick a running mate. CLARION COUNTY, Pennsylvania — ...

(The Center Square) — Pennsylvania has hundreds of thousands of orphan and abandoned gas and oil wells scattered across the state. More state and federal money has been dedicated to cleaning them up, ...

WELL, MIKE SHANNON, A CONTRACTOR, IS AT WORK PLUGGING IN ABANDONED GAS. WELL, THERE’S ACTUALLY BENEATH THE DRIVEWAY OF THIS HOME IN EMSWORTH FOR DECADES, IT WAS COVERED BY NOTHING MORE THAN A FRYING ...

In 1927, during the prolonged drought that spanned from the early 1920s to the late 1930s in the midst of Montana’s oil boom, a small outfit named L.W. Hill drilled a 900-foot well into the dusty ...

Because plugging conventional wells can be difficult, when unexpected complications arise, companies often decide it’s more cost-effective for them to abandon the well, leaving it improperly plugged ...