An oily water mix began spraying from the well on April 26 and wasn't stopped until May 4 after crews were able to dig their ...

After more than a week of oil shooting vertically out of an unused well off the coast of Louisiana, the U.S. Coast Guard announced Sunday evening that the offshore well blowout — first reported ...

After a week of uncontrolled spillage, a leak pouring more than 70,000 gallons of oil into a Louisiana marsh has been contained, according to the Coast Guard. However, cleanup of the area ...

Louisiana Department of Natural Resources Secretary Tom Harris recently announced contractors have plugged 519 orphaned oil and gas well ... identifies the wells as not having a responsible operator ...

OIL CITY, La. - In the early 1980s, it seemed like nothing could stop the booming oil industry in Northwest Louisiana. Crude ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (Louisiana First News) — The House Ways and Means Committee passed a package of bills that would reduce the amount of severance taxes an oil company pays while extracting crude ...

A light rain washes the contamination toward a channel that drains into the bay, where snaking oil booms aim to hold it back. The leak – significant, yet small by Louisiana standards – has ...

Mike Moncla, president of the Louisiana Oil and Gas Association, says the verdict was expected but worries about its implications on the industry. “It just throws something out there against the ...

While filling state revenue coffers and spurring economic activity, generations of oil and gas drilling has also left thousands of orphan wells in need of closure on the taxpayer's dime.

After more than a week of oil shooting vertically out of an unused well off the coast of Louisiana, the U.S. Coast Guard announced Sunday evening that the offshore well blowout — first reported ...