Experts say Texas rules allow companies to defer plugging wells for far too long.

Pecos Valley Baptist Association Concern is spreading across the Permian Basin after a long-abandoned oil well blew out beneath the parking lot of a small church in Grandfalls, Texas, sending over 1.5 ...

A Texas Tribune investigation has spotlighted disputes between landowners and small oil operators over low-producing wells that may skirt plugging requirements. Critics say state rules allow companies ...

There are thousands of oil and gas wells around Texas like these: low-producing wells leased by companies operating on a shoestring. About two-thirds of the active oil wells in Texas, or 99,000 wells, ...

AUSTIN Statewide and county crude oil and natural gas production for April 2026 reported in the tables below came from 158,173 oil wells and 83,387 gas wells. The RRC reports that preliminary total ...

Oil well plugging company sells 104K carbon credits for Texas project; CFTC: Producers continue to cut CCA net length, financial players build amid summer lull; Digi ...

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