The Railroad Commission's number of orphaned oil and gas wells is rising as the oil industry faces falling oil prices.

What happens to oil & gas refineries when there's not enough water to function? KRIS6 investigates sits down with industry ...

A plugged well on the Scouras’ property in Lee County in 2021. Oil and gas companies will face new rules on plugging wells that are no longer operable. Credit: Sophie Park/The Texas Tribune Texas oil ...

Hawk Dunlap fought fires and blowouts in oil fields around the world over a 30-year career, but nothing prepared him for what he found when he finally came home to Texas. There, on the Permian Basin’s ...

The scientific case for exploration dates back many millions of years to continental drift when Greenland was believed to be ...

There are thousands of abandoned wells across the country, and governments are often forced to pick up the cost of plugging them. The U.S. is now the world’s largest producer of crude oil, and a lot ...

Major oil companies are now drilling in East Texas for lithium and other rare elements, sparking a new mineral rush with ...

Texas has 10,029 orphaned wells, the most since 2006. A new law tightens plugging extensions and transfer oversight, though ...

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But if we do see oil prices kicking around $60 for next year, that means that we should see prices at the pump stay around ...

A Texas company wants to drill for oil off Santa Barbara County's coast. Experts say its path to oil sales is looking more ...

Texas oil and gas companies face new deadlines to plug defunct wells after the Texas Legislature agreed this week to send Gov. Greg Abbott a bill setting new rules for the industry. The bill, which ...