The Railroad Commission issued 613 original drilling permits in November, according to the state’s oil and gas regulator. Permits to drill new oil or gas wells totaled 565. By well type ...

The Railroad Commission of Texas issued a total of 666 original drilling permits in January 2025. The total includes 607 to drill new oil or gas wells, 6 to re-enter plugged wellbores, and 53 for ...

In 1984, while Ronald Reagan was securing a landslide reelection and Apple introduced the Macintosh, the Railroad Commission ...

The legal battle over local oil permitting returned to federal court this week as environmental groups filed suit accusing the U.S. Bureau of Land Management of issuing oil and gas ...

The new rule modernizes some aspects of commercial oilfield waste disposal and recycling. But rules for burying oilfield ...

Texas is now drilling record amounts of oil and ... automatically under RRC procedures and do not require a permit from the Railroad Commission. The new rule allows drillers to keep the pit ...

(Wildcatting refers to the high-risk practice of drilling exploratory wells in areas not known to have established oil or gas reserves.) The permits are for two locations south of Blountstown in ...

WASHINGTON— New federal data shows the Biden administration approved 3,557 permits for oil and gas drilling on public lands in its first year, far outpacing the Trump administration’s first-year total ...