A West Texas oil well blowout shot a 100-foot-high plume of poisoned water into the air last fall, prompting reforms at the ...

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 ...

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Leaking oil wells threaten Texas water and taxpayer wallets. Join us November 20 at 12 p.m. for a live virtual event on who's ...

The fire broke out on the rig on Monday while it was working in the US state “after a well control incident”, the Oslo-listed company said in a statement. It stated that all employees working on the ...

The state of Texas will infuse more cash into a program for plugging inactive oil and gas wells in 2026 and 2027, as the average cost of sealing each well has rapidly increased. The state is ...

The stench, like rotten eggs smothered in tar, burns my nostrils. “That’s crude oil and methane,” Hawk Dunlap tells me: the smell of a zombie oil well. It’s the scourge that he’s brought me to a ...

LULING, Texas — This article was originally published by our content partners at the Texas Tribune. Read the original article here. Just six minutes from 5,700-person town’s historic city center, ...