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The total includes 607 to drill new oil or gas wells, six to re-enter plugged wellbores, and 53 for re-completions, the RRC ...

It was the first time in nearly 13 years that Arlington, situated atop the gas-rich Barnett Shale, has approved a new tract ...

ELYSIAN FIELDS, Tx. - Three East Texas communities are fighting to protect their water from possible contamination from an ...

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New technology is letting them oversee drilling, fracking and production from afar, with fewer people on-site ... In Texas, roughly 500 people lost their jobs as part of the oil producer ...

NEW YORK, Jan 14 (Reuters) - Oil prices will be under pressure over the next two years as global production growth outpaces ... from the Permian Basin of Texas and New Mexico, the world's largest ...

AUSTIN Statewide and county crude oil and natural gas production as reported to the Railroad Commission of Texas for October 2024 came from 159,986 oil wells and 83,497 gas wells, a press release ...

Feb. 3—AUSTIN — Statewide and county crude oil and natural gas production as reported to the Railroad Commission of Texas for November 2024 came from 159,727 oil wells and 82,958 gas wells ...