Also of note: New York State, where a moratorium currently bans fracking until the state can decide how to regulate it, has more than 15,000 active oil and gas wells, mostly in western New York at ...

The map shows oil and gas wells in Colorado as of April 27, 2017. Enter an address or ZIP code into the map’s search box in the upper right corner to zoom in to a location.

The United States is home to a staggering number of abandoned oil and gas wells, remnants of nearly two centuries of hydrocarbon extraction. Many of these wells, classified as undocumented ...

Abandoned oil wells pose a significant environment and health risk, as they can leak methane — a potent greenhouse gas — into the atmosphere and contaminate groundwater. The total estimated ...

There are more than 900,000 active oil and gas wells in the United States, and more than 130,000 have been drilled since 2010, ... Six maps that show the anatomy of America’s vast infrastructure ...

Below are four charts and two maps that help tell the story of America's amazing shale oil revolution: 1. The Big Three. Yesterday, the Department of Energy's Energy Information Administration ...

The continental United States is jam-packed with reminders of our ravenous oil appetite. Since the 1850s, there have been an estimated 3.5 million oil and gas wells drilled across the country.

In fact, of all 3,486 oil and gas wells drilled on federal and Native American land from 2009 to 2012 that were identified by the Bureau of Land Management as high risk for pollution, 40 percent ...

A Times analysis shows that increasingly complex oil and gas wells now require astonishing volumes of water to fracture the bedrock and release fossil fuels, threatening America’s fragile aquifers.

U.S. Shale Boom Shows Signs of Peaking as Big Oil Wells Disappear America’s biggest oil gushers are shrinking, evidence that companies have drilled through much of their best wells.