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 ...

Wastewater disposal in the Permian Basin is boosting pressure underground, threatening to hinder oil production ...

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 ...

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 ...

Two West Texas lawmakers want to divert 10% of the roughly ... which would also devote money to oil field cleanup and emissions reduction programs managed by the Texas Railroad Commission and Texas ...

Two West Texas lawmakers want to divert 10% ... field cleanup and emissions reduction programs managed by the Texas Railroad Commission and Texas Commission on Environmental Quality — and ...

August Pfluger, the Texas Republican whose District 11 includes the Permian ... to its application,” which designated the Railroad Commission as the agency to oversee the wells, he said.

In arid West ... Railroad Commission form. They’re the result of oil exploration that began nearly a century ago. Wildcatters searching for oil have punched thousands of holes into the Texas ...

Texas Regulators Grapple With a Growing ... For example, the Middle Pecos Groundwater Conservation District has repeatedly asked the RRC over the years to include 40 wells — some of which ...

The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality ... For example, the Middle Pecos Groundwater Conservation District has repeatedly asked the RRC over the years to include 40 wells — some of ...

In West Texas ... the race for 143rd District Attorney - the top prosecutor for Reeves, Ward and Loving counties - Republican Sarah Stogner defeated incumbent Democrat Randy Reynolds. Stogner, a ...