INVESTIGATION: Texas oil companies are leaking toxic gas near schools and homes. Regulators do little to stop them. The Railroad Commission, which regulates the oil industry, doesn’t map sites ...

An individual who drills exploratory wells in areas not proven to be oil fields. Many successful 20th-century wildcatters became tycoons and helped shape the character of Texas.

Rain pours on this quiet Texas field, but the crew doesn’t stop their steady pace. The job has become all too familiar. They’re sealing one of thousands of unplugged orphaned oil and gas wells ...

Rather than pulling oil out of the earth, the hole he was helping drill would be used to store clean, transient power from south Texas wind and ... have exploited using drills similar to those ...

It stars Billy Bob Thornton as a savvy oil business veteran who handles things in the field for a Texas mogul. Our critic-at-large John Powers enjoyed the five preview episodes and says that ...

drill” may be Texas’s unofficial motto, but “store, baby, store” is becoming more accurate. The Lone Star State may be the heart of America’s oil and gas map, but it's quickly becoming ...