Companies are using advanced technology to drill many miles underground to reach the hot rock below. Their quest is to make ...

These individuals, including the Koch brothers, Kelcy Warren, Harold Hamm, George Mitchell, and Monty Moncrief, were ...

An aged oil rig platform standing in the middle of a vast body of water, surrounded by nothing but the endless ocean.

The rig was there at Burns' request — and the state of Ohio's expense — to solve a problem that dates back more than a century. There's an old natural gas well in this yard, extending nearly a ...

There was a circle in Maria Burns' yard where grass wouldn't grow and trees died. She knew what it was: An old natural gas ...

The rig was there at Burns' request — and the state of Ohio's expense — to solve a problem that dates back more than a century. There's an old natural gas well in this yard, extending nearly a ...

Any remaining oil and gas, or other underground deposits of chemicals like hydrogen sulfide, could use the old well as a path to migrate up and into the atmosphere.