The price of crude oil is steadily declining and in Scotland as in many other countries, this means the abandonment of oil rigs. To disassemble the machines is not just costly, it also might prove to ...

The rule, finalized last year, would also protect taxpayers from shouldering the cost. The states suing, however,, say it will crush independent oil companies.

Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas asked the administration to toss a regulation they sued to overturn last year.

There are more than 20,000 abandoned oil and gas wells in Oklahoma. The Oklahoma Corporation Commission uses state and federal funds to plug them.

The Center for Biological Diversity filed a notice today of its intent to sue the federal government for allowing Platform Elly and other offshore oil production in the Beta oilfield to operate under ...

Oklahoma has over 20,000 abandoned oil and gas wells ... and boots splattered with mud surrounded a pump jack and a 70-foot rig in Glenpool, near Tulsa. In early February, the ground was slick ...