For most Americans, cheap oil is good news. In Midland, Texas, it is a problem. Oil prices have mostly slumped since last ...

Texas-based oil companies have largely been silent on Trump’s assertion that they would help to rebuild Venezuela’s oil infrastructure.

ODESSA At least three times a week, Darin Mitchell gets the call. Oil drums have been stolen. Copper wires were yanked. Other field equipment at an oil and gas facility was pilfered. The Winkler ...

Although shutting down oil wells seems like a positive development for the environment, the aftermath of what's happening to some of these wells across Texas could pose an environmental disaster. When ...

Leaking wells have become a scourge on Texas oil fields as the state contends with two overlapping issues: surging numbers of unplugged orphan wells left behind by bankrupt operators, and a growing ...

Hawk Dunlap fought fires and blowouts in oil fields around the world over a 30-year career, but nothing prepared him for what he found when he finally came home to Texas. There, on the Permian Basin’s ...

Texas lawmakers hope a series of new laws will help end oil field thefts in West Texas. (Eli Hartman/The Texas Tribune, Eli Hartman/The Texas Tribune) Subscribe to The Y’all — a weekly dispatch about ...

Texas lawmakers have approved bills creating task forces to address oil field theft in the Permian Basin. The task forces, formed by the Department of Public Safety and the Texas Railroad Commission, ...