Christi Craddick, chair of the Texas Railroad Commission, speaks to delegates at the 2024 Texas GOP Convention in San Antonio on May 25. She won reelection Tuesday.

State oil and gas inspectors are not adequately verifying that Texas natural gas production and delivery systems are prepared ...

Rep. Will Metcalf is asking the Texas Railroad Commission to halt a project that will bring a natural gas pipeline compressor ...

Oil has been big business here for nearly 100 years, and thousands upon thousands of older oil wells have long since dried up ...

The drilling report was produced with data from the Texas Railroad Commission from Aug. 3 to 9, 2025: Angelina, Aethon Energy ...

In Texas, surface mine reclamation is a decades-long process requiring scientific precision, environmental insight and strong collaboration.

Texas has nearly 8,900 orphan wells, according to the Railroad Commission’s most recent list. Many are concentrated in oil-rich areas like the Permian Basin, including Reeves, Crockett, and ...

Inspectors for the Texas Railroad Commission are investigating a 5.4-magnitude earthquake that was recorded west of Pecos near the border of Reeves and Culberson counties on Wednesday, the agency ...

The Trump administration said it found a “serious defect” in the Fish and Wildlife Service's 2022 listing decision for the ...

Christi Craddick, chair of the Texas Railroad Commission, speaks to delegates at the 2024 Texas GOP Convention in San Antonio on May 25. She won reelection Tuesday.