The Louisiana Department of Natural Resources has documented about 4,600 orphan wells, but the total number is likely larger and growing by the day as small and mid-sized companies shut down and ...

Plugging all of Louisiana’s orphan wells could employ just over 1,000 oil workers full-time for one year, a report by Columbia University and Resources for the Future, a Washington D.C ...

The red dots show the location of 4,295 orphaned oil or gas well that Louisiana must pay to have plugged. The Department of Natural Resources Office of Conservation estimates it will cost $128 ...

Plugging all of Louisiana’s orphan wells could employ just over 1,000 oil workers full-time for one year and cut methane emissions by 558 metric tons per year, according to a 2020 report by ...

(KLFY) Governor John Bel Edwards says Louisiana is moving away from oil and gas and toward renewable energy. This comes as President Biden continues to shut down oil and gas lease sales in the ...

The U.S. Department of Energy has authorized an emergency exchange from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) with ExxonMobil ...

Over 200,000 people in the oil and gas industry in Louisiana are at risk of losing their jobs, industry leaders say. This comes after President Joe Biden signed an executive order Wednesday ...

The NTSB said the leak off the coast of Louisiana was the result of underwater landslides, caused by hazards such as hurricanes, that pipeline owner Third Coast failed to address even though the ...

In our continuing coverage of the Gulf oil leak, Spencer Michels reports on how the spill may impact Louisiana's lucrative drilling industry as lawmakers impose a moratorium on offshore drilling ...