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ODESSA — The fracking boom that resuscitated the Texas oil fields has also beaten up the infrastructure in the Permian Basin, the state’s biggest oil and gas drilling region. More heavy trucks drove ...

A new Texas bill limiting oilfield inactivity could ease environmental harms and taxpayer burdens from orphan oil and gas ...

ODESSA — When President Donald Trump boasted about falling oil prices on social media early Monday, the Texas oil and gas industry didn’t cheer along with him.

Apr. 2—AUSTIN — Statewide and county crude oil and natural gas production as reported to the Railroad Commission of Texas for January 2025 came from 158,555 oil wells and 83,176 gas wells ...