The Railroad Commission has released drilling permit and completions data for May.

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

At least three times a week, Darin Mitchell gets the call. Oil drums have been stolen. Copper wires were yanked.

“Even the simplest well can take time,” said Nicholas Harrel, a state managed plugger with the Texas Railroad Commission. From the air, the wells look like pinpricks across the Texas landscap ...

Paxton isn’t the only town in East Texas ... drilling well pads. A company called M2T, LLC, owned by Joseph McBride, applied for the permit in January 2022. The Railroad Commission granted ...

The Texas General Land Office works with the commission to plug wells. The GLO even contributed $10 million from its budget to help with the railroad commission's well-plugging initiative.

The name of the Texas oil and gas regulatory agency—unlike its peers in other states—has nothing to do with fossil fuels or natural resources. The Railroad Commission of Texas hasn’t had ...

an oil well control specialist in West Texas and Eddie Espinoza, a retired school teacher and veteran of the Green Party. The Railroad Commission is the oldest state regulatory agency, formed in ...

Well control specialist Hawk Dunlap returns from the base of a geyser of produced water, in Toyah, Texas. The Texas Railroad Commission needs $100 million to fix leaks and erupting wells.

Unable to keep up with the growing number of leaking and erupting wells in the state’s oil fields, the Texas Railroad Commission ... from increasingly common well blowouts.