Firms have used billions of gallons of Rio Grande and Pecos River water for drilling in the Eagle Ford Shale and elsewhere, ...

PECOS, Texas — Extreme drought ... or over 450 million gallons, in 2024. District general manager Robin Prewit said the water sales to oil and gas drillers are “a drop in the bucket.” ...

Oil workers pull tubing from an orphan well in a field in Luling on March 27, 2025. (Lorianne Willett/The Texas Tribune ... an oil and gas division district director at the Railroad Commission.

LULING, Texas — This article was originally ... we get to those as wells first,” said Travis Baer, an oil and gas division district director at the Railroad Commission. The Luling well is ...

(Lorianne Willett/The Texas Tribune, Lorianne Willett/The ... get to those as wells first,” said Travis Baer, an oil and gas division district director at the Railroad Commission.

Across Texas, abandoned wells are erupting with ... we get to those as wells first,” said Travis Baer, an oil and gas division district director at the Railroad Commission.

Oil and gas wells with no active owner that are no longer ... old and located near coal seams and residential water wells. A map of locations with vulnerability to groundwater contamination ...

Nueces County Water Control and Improvement District #3, which controls Robstown’s water distribution, did not respond to requests for comment. The South Texas ... s the oil and gas industry ...

The movement is slow — sinking on the scale of millimeters per year in the United States — but the effects accumulate over ...

particularly in West Texas. The region has the most fault zones in the state and is also known for fracking, a process in which liquid is injected into the ground to force oil and gas to the surface.