Newport Beach officials have launched a 24/7 emergency drilling operation to repair an abandoned 1920s-era oil well that caused methane and oil to seep into a home on the Balboa Peninsula, prompting ...

A gas leak from an abandoned oil well in the middle of a Newport Beach neighborhood has forced the city to declare a local emergency and has put the homes in the center of it all at risk of being torn ...

The price of crude oil is steadily declining, leading to the abandonment of oil rigs in Scotland and other countries. Massive rigs, weighing around a thousand tons each, are being towed into the ...