Casing wear remains a critical issue in oil and gas well operations, particularly as wells become deeper and more deviated. Research in this field focuses on elucidating the mechanisms of wear that ...

In recent years, Schuyler Wight has noticed a growing number of abandoned oil wells coming back to life, gurgling fluids on the surface of his West Texas ranch. Last week he found the biggest one yet.

A knee-high pipe sticking out of the ground not far from a school. A gurgle in a pond on rolling farmland. A patch of forest undergrowth hiding a long-forgotten, leaking oil well. Relics like these ...

On a sprawling ranch in Pecos County in late July, oil well control specialist Hawk Dunlap used a backhoe to uncover an abandoned or so-called zombie well that had sprung back to life despite being ...

Ever since the Nazis started streaking like fire toward Russia’s oilfields, observers have wondered: How do you wreck an oil well? An oil well is a deep, narrow, steel-lined hole in the ground. To ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - BP Plc installed a type of cement casing on its now-ruptured undersea well that it knew ran the risk of leaking gases in order to save money, The New York Times reported on ...