On December 1, 1963, Well No. 11 in the Urta-Bulak gas field suffered a blowout due to a violation of proper drilling procedures. The 2409 meter deep hole opened up a gas reservoir underground ...

In a nutshell, "a blowout is an uncontrolled flow of gas, oil or other formation fluids into the atmosphere or another zone," explained Barry Cooper of Well Control School, an organization ...

WELD COUNTY, Colo — Five days after an oil well incident near Galeton in northern Colorado, the well is sealed but residents ...

Kinder Morgan did not previously own the well. The blowout did not interfere with the ... which was drilled in 1961 by El Paso Natural Gas Company. A spokesperson for the commission said Kinder ...

Emergency workers took four days to stop a major leak at a Chevron well pad in Galeton. Nearby residents are still evacuated ...

A well that was releasing water with some oil and gas at a Chevron oil and gas facility in Weld County was contained Thursday ...

Officials confirmed that a “containment issue” at a Chevron oil and gas facility northeast of Greeley has been resolved, days after the incident began.

Blowouts are easily the most dangerous and destructive potential disasters in the world of oil drilling. Not only can they lead to serious injury and even death, but they can also cause massive ...

It will be sometime Saturday before a crew of specialists from Houston can get a gas well blowout “shut in” after a mishap Thursday west of Peetz began spewing natural gas into the air.

When left unattended, orphaned wells are prone to blowouts ... gas attorney, told the Texas Tribune earlier this month. Stogner has tracked such wells for years. In December 2023, an abandoned ...