The State Lands Commission has finished abandoning two more legacy oil wells on the Summerland coast. These leaking wells in ...

Wight is no stranger to the issue of leaking wells. He has dealt with many on his neighboring 20,000-acre cattle ranch, which has about 250 orphaned and neglected oil wells threatening to spring ...

The Kelton Ranch is a few miles outside McCamey in rural Upton County. McCamey is one of countless Texas towns formed in an ...

The oil-filled hole around a plugged well on an Upton County ranch is one on a growing list of problems cropping up with old ...

A sinkhole around an old oil well is growing at an alarming rate on the Kelton Ranch in West Texas. Radford Grocery #17 was ...

The bill would have set deadlines for the oil and gas industry to plug inactive wells, which can pose a danger to the ...

New research has revealed that soils surrounding onshore oil and gas wells are able to absorb methane leakage, preventing the potent greenhouse gas from entering the atmosphere and contributing to ...

Wildcatters searching for oil have punched thousands of holes ... which created the Leaking Water Wells Grant Program under the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality and committed $10 million ...

“Abandoned wells can pose a hazard to human health and safety by potentially leaking oil into surface and subsurface waters,” the statement said. “Inventorying and assessing these wells for ...

Another orphaned oil well in West Texas erupted with black, salty water this month as state regulators struggle to address problems associated with oil field pollutants. The latest known leak, in ...