Another is California, where 1,200 people just evacuated from fires in Los Angeles, a city still dotted by thousands of wells, including new ones. Despite that new drilling, California’s oil ...

Michigan has 14,000 regulated oil and gas facilities, and serious incidents are rare. But when they do happen, they can be dangerous or even deadly.

A fire broke out on the Song Doc oil rig off Vietnam's southernmost province Ca Mau on Wednesday afternoon while it was being ...

Canada, the world’s fourth-largest crude producer, has long seen its energy output threatened by wildfires that rage through ...

Hot weather sparked a string of wildfires around Alberta over the weekend, including some near oil and gas wells operated by ...

Red Adair has died aged 89. His exploits fighting oil well fires around the globe made him a household name from Kuwait to Texas. John Wayne immortalised Adair in the film Hellfighters. In the final ...

The fire began off Timmerman Road about 6:48 a.m. at the CHK Jamar Pad, according to Encino Energy, which owns the well. It was successfully extinguished around 2:45 p.m. More on oil and gas ...

president of Houston’s Red Adair Oil Well Fires & Blowouts Control Co. Affluence in Red. Flame-haired “Red” Adair learned his rare trade in 16 years with tough old Myron Kinley, dean ...

America is dotted with old oil wells that are no longer producing, but have never been plugged. In a prairie in Oklahoma, between bison and brush fires, a pipe sticking out from the ground is one ...

Almost a year to the day later, on Nov. 26, 2024, it happened again — a very similar explosion and fire at an oil well and storage tank battery, this time about 13 miles away in Livingston ...

That rise is driven by Utah and Texas. The Lone Star State, the nation’s biggest oil and gas producer, had about 10,000 wells at high risk for fire in 2017 — a number that is expected to boom ...