Pressure Mounts on Texas Regulator as ‘Zombie’ Oil Wells Spill Toxic Fluids August 15, 2024 By Valerie Volcovici PECOS COUNTY, Texas – On a sprawling ranch in Pecos County in late July, oil well control specialist Hawk Dunlap...
Damaging West Texas Earthquakes Likely Caused by Oil and Gas Activity: USGS July 31, 2024 By Dorany Pineda Damaging earthquakes that rocked West Texas in recent days were likely caused by oil and gas activity in an area...
Court Ends Challenge to 2021 Gulf Oil and Gas Lease Sale May 1, 2023 By Kevin McGill NEW ORLEANS (AP) – A lawsuit by environmentalists seeking to block the 2021 sale of Gulf of Mexico oil and...
North Dakota Oil Patch Sees Exodus of Workers September 15, 2020 By Amy R. Sisk, The Bismarck Tribune Killdeer City, N.D., Administrator Matt Oase can’t help but notice that the community’s population is not what it was six...
Oklahoma Regulators Probing Oil, Gas Activity Near Site of New Quakes July 14, 2016 Oklahoma’s oil-and-gas regulators are investigating a recent cluster of earthquakes recorded near Blanchard, about 30 miles south of downtown Oklahoma...
UT Study Links Recent Texas Quakes to Oil Activity May 19, 2016 A new study by researchers at the University of Texas at Austin concludes that human activity has been a factor...