California

Geo2Watts is transforming abandoned oil and gas wells into renewable energy assets using solar power and sand. In this exclusive Q&A, co-founders Phil Cruver, Bill Bartling, and Ken Murray share their vision and the innovative technology behind their “borehole battery.”

A campaign for a statewide initiative to require buffer zones around new oil and gas wells raises the possibility that California voters could see two similar measures on the November 2024 ballot.

The deal offers bolt-on acquisition to the operator’s Kern County, California, operations.

New well on the South Salinas project encounters commercial quantities of oil.

A town in the oil industry’s shadow grapples with health fears as the state fails to limit companies’ use of fresh water.

California soon will have the largest oil drilling setbacks in the US. Experts say other states can learn from this move.

This paper outlines one of the first efforts by a major oil and gas company to build a net exporting, behind-the-meter solar photovoltaic plant to lower the operating costs and carbon intensity of a large, mature oil and gas field.

Rights to five lease tracts offshore California have been awarded to five separate operators.

A multidisciplinary team of UCLA scientists and health care practitioners will conduct the health study, which will consist of five components—a health and health care use assessment, exposure assessment, community engagement, data management and statistical analysis, and overall program administration.

State lawmakers sent a bill to the governor that would require setbacks between new production sites and residential neighborhoods and other sensitive areas.