Doc Lloyd, Daisy Bradford and Columbus Marion "Dad" Joiner pose for a photo. In 1930, Joiner uncovered the biggest oil field ...

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

In arid West Texas, water seeps and bubbles from old wells, sometimes carrying oil, brackish water or other pollutants to the ...

Despite President Donald Trump’s calls to “drill, baby, drill,” many oil companies operating in the Gulf of Mexico will ...

The Railroad Commission of Texas issued a total of 666 original drilling permits in January 2025. The total includes 607 to drill new oil or gas wells, 6 to re-enter plugged wellbores, and 53 for ...

But industry leaders have also been clear that these and other policy changes floated by Trump won’t lead to more drilling.

This isn't the first time President Trump has sought to reverse drilling bans. As he learned in his first term, it won't be easy.

Standing in his living room, Richard Kabzems brandishes a thick binder stuffed with letters and notes of his two-year fight to stop fracking wells near his home in Farmington, B.C.

A bill preventing future presidents from unilaterally banning hydraulic fracking is on its way to the Senate after passing ...

In 1984, while Ronald Reagan was securing a landslide reelection and Apple introduced the Macintosh, the Railroad Commission ...

They’re the result of oil exploration that began nearly a century ago. Wildcatters searching for oil have punched thousands of holes into the Texas soil in search of black gold over the past 150 ...

AUSTIN The Railroad Commission of Texas issued a total of 666 original drilling permits in January 2025. The total includes 607 to drill new oil or gas wells, 6 to re-enter plugged wellbores ...