Six idled oil wells leak explosive methane near Bakersfield homes in the past week Janet Wilson Palm Springs Desert Sun 0:05 ...

Oil workers have perished in California and elsewhere after falling into sinkholes created by drilling and so-called surface expressions, as the seeps are known the industry.

The Kuwait Oil Company declared a "state of emergency" Monday over an oil spill on land, in an incident decried by environmental activists as a "recurring problem" in the energy-rich Gulf state.The ...

New oil spill lingo: seep. Time to get worried? Not until we know whether they're new or old, big or small.

Now that oil has stopped flowing from BP's blown out Macondo well in the Gulf of Mexico, a "seep" of undetermined size and nature has been detected within two miles of the cap. Whether that means ...

WASHINGTON — Scientists have detected oil or natural gas seeping from the seafloor near BP's unstable Deepwater Horizon oil well and have also found "undetermined anomalies" near the wellhead ...

The Keystone oil pipeline has been shut down after it ruptured in North Dakota, halting the flow of thousands of gallons of crude oil from Canada to refineries in the U.S.

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A Los Angeles wildlife-rescue group says natural crude-oil seepage in the Santa Barbara Channel has led to an unusual number of seabirds coated in oil and tar. The ocean-bottom leaks afflict birds ...

Researchers are deeply concerned about what the BP oil spill means for the creatures flourishing in the dark, frigid ecosystems known as cold seeps.

Natural hydrocarbon seeps account for up to 47% of the oil released into the oceans. In situ and remote measurements of chlorophyll concentrations suggest that natural hydrocarbons enhance ...

An oil seep was discovered in Brazilian state-run oil company Petrobras' offshore Roncador oilfield, according to Brazilian oil regulator ANP.