Oil and gas companies have used billions of gallons of Rio Grande and Pecos River water for drilling in the past four years, ...

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Upstream oil and natural gas employment climbed by 1,700 in April over the month, representing an increase in 900 jobs in the services sector and 800 jobs in oil and natural gas extraction.

Across Texas, abandoned wells are erupting with chemical-infused liquid and some have created massive lakes of contaminated ...

Senate Bill 1146 would encourage the owners of leases or mineral rights to which abandoned oil and gas wells are attached to ...

Rain pours on this quiet Texas field, but the crew doesn’t stop their steady pace. The job has become all too familiar. They’re sealing one of thousands of unplugged orphaned oil and gas wells ...

The RRC reports that preliminary total Texas reported production for February 2025 was approximately 114 million barrels of crude oil and 901 billion cubic feet of total gas. Updated total ...

“The Railroad Commission of Texas continues to make great strides in digitizing oil and gas records as the agency improves both transparency and efficiency in its daily functions,” the RRC ...

Texas Pacific Land Corp (NYSE:TPL) set quarterly records in both oil and gas royalty production and water segment revenues. Oil and gas royalty production increased by 25% year over year ...

Oil and gas leases in Texas typically include force majeure clauses to prevent lease termination when events beyond the lessee’s control impede operations. However, the contractual language used ...

This is a quote from Congressman Gonzales during the hearing: “There's a part of my district, one of my counties [Reeves County], that produces more natural gas ... Oil theft in West Texas ...