In the oil-rich Williston Basin, a Shell Oil Co. wildcat crew last week brought in a well near Baker, Mont. that gushed oil at the rate of 4,253 barrels a day. It was the richest well yet drilled ...

With high hopes, Allen Moye, 39, a hard-scrabbling cotton planter and hog raiser, gave rights to Humble Oil & Refining Co. to drill a wildcat well on his 100-acre farm, just five miles above the ...

The day after Wild Mary was brought under control, another well in the same 160-acre lease came in as a gusher, but it was brought under control relatively soon.

BEAUMONT, Texas — After a well at Spindletop in Beaumont struck oil on Jan. 10, 1901, the birth of the modern petroleum industry came to be. Now 123 years later, the Spindletop Gladys City ...

The Lucas Gusher at Spindletop, which gave birth to the modern petroleum industry and transformed Beaumont into an oil boom town, marks its 124th anniversary today.

An oil leak caused by an over 8-year-old-well spewed into a Louisiana marshland for a week. Responders are now beginning the cleanup.

When Spindletop blew open, sending columns of oil gushing 150 feet into the air over Beaumont for nine days, it ushered in a new age for Texas and the world. The economic boom that ensued made Texas ...

From Spindletop — the Texan oilfield whose 1901 blowout kickstarted the oil era and sparked nearby Houston’s transformation into one of America’s biggest cities — to the disaster 109 years ...

HOUSTON -- As engineers bore deeper into the seafloor toward the source of the oil still spewing into the Gulf of Mexico, BP PLC is growing more confident that the relief well it expects to ...

With crippled equipment littering the ocean floor, oil company engineers scrambled to devise a fresh method to cap the ruptured well.