Although shutting down oil wells seems like a positive development for the environment, the aftermath of what's happening to some of these wells across Texas could pose an environmental disaster. When ...

Leaking wells have become a scourge on Texas oil fields as the state contends with two overlapping issues: surging numbers of unplugged orphan wells left behind by bankrupt operators, and a growing ...

This story is featured in the September/October issue of ETX View Magazine. The legacy of the oil industry runs deep in East Texas and continues today. An unforgettable discovery of a large oil field ...

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 ...

Texas oil and gas companies celebrated the state winning the authority to permit certain types of carbon capture projects that would inject carbon from the atmosphere into the ground. The ...

The Texas oil and natural gas industry employed 495,501 Texans last year, according to TXOGA's 2025 Energy and Economic ...