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 ...

A West Texas oil well blowout shot a 100-foot-high plume of poisoned water into the air last fall, prompting reforms at the ...

A Chesapeake Energy drilling site near Big Wells in South Texas uses fracking. The boom in shale gas drilling has created half a million jobs. Hawk Dunlap fought fires and blowouts in oil fields ...

The fire broke out on the rig on Monday while it was working in the US state “after a well control incident”, the Oslo-listed company said in a statement. It stated that all employees working on the ...