Key TakeawaysExperts estimate there are hundreds of thousands of oil and gas wells in the United States that are not formally ...

AI methodologies from Berkeley Lab identify undocumented orphaned wells, enhancing environmental safety and supporting ...

On USGS quadrangle maps from 1947-1992, oil wells are marked by hollow black circles. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases posted to EurekAlert!

Since 2011, the United States Geological Survey has uploaded 190,000 scans of historical USGS topographic maps made between 1884 and 2006. Crucially, the maps are geotagged, meaning each pixel ...

Artificial intelligence might make the process much faster. Researchers adapted a state-of-the-art vision neural network ...