State regulators are pushing to plug three oil wells in southern Arkansas that were owned and run by a company that can no longer be located. The Arkansas Oil and Gas Commission wants to plug the ...

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THE TEXAS TRIBUNE – Texas will begin plugging about 800 abandoned oil and gas wells this fall, the state’s oil and gas agency said, after receiving an initial $25 million grant from a program included ...

Aug. 27—WILKES-BARRE — The Shapiro Administration and the United Mine Workers of America (UMWA) have announced a new registered apprenticeship program to train workers to plug oil and gas wells, ...

Aug. 27—HARRISBURG — Abandoned oil and gas wells pose widespread environmental risk to Pennsylvania and a new apprenticeship program unveiled Monday is designed to build out a registered workforce to ...

The number of abandoned oil and gas wells in North Dakota has grown 10% over the past two years to more than 700 amid low oil prices, and state regulators are considering new rules to try to keep the ...

TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) - About $25 million is headed to Kansas to help plug abandoned oil and water wells. The Kansas Corporation Commission says it has been awarded $25 million in grant funds to help ...

BURGETTSTOWN, Pa. (KDKA) -- One hundred orphaned and abandoned wells in Pennsylvania have been plugged in the past 10 months, more than in the past six years combined, Gov. Josh Shapiro said on ...

Brackish water flows from an unplugged abandoned well outside Imperial in Pecos County one of several in the area likely drilled for oil but later tapped for water. On Friday, the Texas Railroad ...

The initial grant will allow Texas to plug a fraction of the state’s approximately 7,400 documented abandoned oil and gas wells. Texas will begin plugging about 800 abandoned oil and gas wells this ...