Another orphaned oil well in West Texas erupted with black ... that it had inspected the leaking well and it planned to send a rig to plug it. Schuyler Wight, a neighboring rancher who leases ...

The fracking boom that resuscitated the Texas oil fields has also beaten up the infrastructure in the Permian Basin, the ...

On average, respondents expect a West Texas Intermediate (WTI) oil price of $68 per barrel at year-end 2025, slightly lower ...

The rapidly-growing sinkhole in Upton County is the latest of many problems caused by old wells in the Permian Basin. A sinkhole in Upton County formed around an oil well that was plugged in the ...

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Spring in West Texas brings high winds and blowing dust ... noted that the company’s rigs are designed to operate in severe conditions. Their offshore rigs are designed to withstand hypothetical ...

The rig count in the Permian Basin was down one this week, the latest count Friday by Baker Hughes shows, with 304 rigs active in the region. A year ago, 313 rigs were active in the region. Nationally ...

The rig count in the Permian Basin was down three this week, the latest count Friday by Baker Hughes shows, with 301 rigs active in the region. A year ago, 316 rigs were active in the region.

Though it was small, the U.S. rig count posted its first rise in three weeks. Texas was down slightly, but Midland County ...