Oil theft has been part of doing business in West Texas for as long as people have been drilling, but over the past two years ...

Fourth-generation West Texas rancher Schuyler Wight surveys ... From left, Travis Baer, RRC district director of districts 1 and 2, Randy Niedorf, plugging contractor and owner of Bulldog Oil ...

In West Texas, at least eight orphaned wells have ... From left, Travis Baer, RRC district director of districts 1 and 2, Randy Niedorf, plugging contractor and owner of Bulldog Oil Well Services ...

LULING, Texas — This article was originally ... an oil and gas division district director at the Railroad Commission. The Luling well is categorized as a 2H priority well — still high risk ...

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Read more stories about the threats facing Texas’ water supply here. MIDLAND — On any given day, energy companies across the vast Permian Basin in West Texas inject millions of gallons of ...

A significant earthquake shook the sparse desert landscape of West Texas on Saturday evening, marking the largest in a concerning series of tremors that have unsettled the region since early April.