HARRISBURG — State environmental authorities said Tuesday they were investigating a minor blowout at a natural-gas well in a public forest in northern Pennsylvania that sent polluted drilling ...

Recent enhancements in relief well technology enable operators to drill into prolific reservoirs while maintaining a single relief well contingency plan. Blowout contingency planning is required by ...

Three unrelated problems may have combined to cause a disastrous oil-well blowout last month in the Gulf of Mexico. The blast killed 11 workers and is releasing massive amounts of oil into the gulf.

NEW ORLEANS - Natural gas flowed uncontrolled from a well off the Louisiana coast Tuesday after a blowout that forced the evacuation of 47 workers aboard a drilling rig, authorities said. No injuries ...

COVINGTON, La. (AP) - Senior managers complained oil giant BP was "taking shortcuts" by replacing heavy drilling fluid with saltwater in the well that blew out, triggering the massive oil spill in the ...

New stringent government regulations on offshore drilling are casting another shadow on the long-term outlook for ocean energy extraction in the United States. New stringent government regulations on ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Shell Oil drill vessels are heading to the Arctic. But they will not be permitted to drill into petroleum-bearing rock until a key piece of blowout response equipment, a ...

FORT WORTH, Texas — Before the fracking and shale-drilling boom went national, a gas well blowout left a worker dead and galvanized the debate about regulation in the birthplace of unconventional ...

Chesapeake Energy Corp. and its contractors on Friday quenched the flow of natural gas from an out-of-control well in eastern Wyoming, nearly three days after the well into the Niobrara Shale ...

BATON ROUGE, LA. — The Louisiana Office of Conservation on Tuesday announced a 120-day moratorium on drilling oil and gas wells within a quarter-mile of an interstate highway after Gov. Kathleen ...

I’ve already asked whether President Obama’s deepwater drilling moratorium is a smart policy, given the fact that it won’t do much unless we attack oil demand at the source. But I still thought that a ...