An emergency repair to cap an abandoned oil well leaking oil and methane gas under a house on the Balboa Peninsula is taking ...

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Crews in Newport Beach are conducting a drilling operation to fix an abandoned oil well that leaked methane and oil into a ...

The new law allows for yearly permitting of up to 2,000 new oil wells each year for the next decade, marking a major shift ...

The work, which started Saturday to permanently cap an old oil well from the 1920s, will likely last for nine to 10 days.

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An abandoned oil well leak in a Newport Beach neighborhood has sparked a local emergency, and could even lead to homes being ...

The lawsuit filed Wednesday in Los Angeles Superior Court charges four oil companies with failing to properly clean up at ...

New oil well drilling in Russia has accelerated to the fastest in five years despite the recent oil price decline, Bloomberg has reported, suggesting the pick-up in activity anticipates a further ...

The state of California is teaming up with Newport Beach to seal a methane leak from an abandoned oil well that prompted a local emergency in October.

Newport Beach officials have launched a 24/7 emergency drilling operation to repair an abandoned 1920s-era oil well that ...

Brent crude oil prices fell to below $60 a barrel on Tuesday, the lowest since May, amid investor optimism over progressing ...