Texas lawmakers passed a suite of bills that officials said are crucial to combat losses in the state’s largest oil field.

The Railroad Commission has released preliminary oil natural gas production statistics for the month of March. According to ...

Oil theft has been part of doing business in West Texas for as long as people have been drilling, but over the past two years there's been a surge in activity, law enforcement said.

One person who’s not surprised is Sarah Stogner, the district attorney for three West Texas counties in the Permian Basin. She’s been warning of rising subsurface pressure since 2021, when a landowner ...

Texas is a dominant force in the nation’s oil and gas industry, supplying more than 40% of its oil and producing more natural gas than it can store, transport or sell.

Local leaders say the oil boom has caused strains that their city and county budgets can’t keep up with. Two West Texas lawmakers want to divert 10% of the roughly $8 billion that oil and gas ...

Two West Texas lawmakers want to divert 10% of the roughly $8 billion that oil and gas companies pay the state in so-called severance taxes to benefit oil-producing counties.

The current efforts to limit liability in the oil and gas industry are part of a larger pattern of deregulation that has reshaped trucking and oil field work over the past four decades.

President Trump and Texas lawmakers are pushing to loosen the laws and liabilities governing the state’s oil and gas industry and give companies a freer hand to “drill, baby, drill,” dr… ...

ODESSA Less methane escaped into the atmosphere from certain oil and gas equipment and oil wells in 2023, according to a report released earlier this month by an energy analytics firm that ...