“A disaster waiting to happen”: How the fracking boom put an oil field in the Guadalupe River floodplain Tags: Politics, Energy, Environment, De Witt, Gonzales County, oil and natural gas, Well A ...

Back at the end of June, when crude oil prices inched to over $40 a barrel after the pandemic-induced plunge, the petroleum industry seemed to breathe a sigh of relief – hoping that the worst was over ...

Well sites with horizontal wells are able to make contact with more surface area of a rock formation compared to vertical well systems, which has also added to the production potential of the ...

Chemicals found in wells near the site of a 2022 incident in Freeport Township indicate a link to nearby fracking activity, according to a recent report by researchers from the University of ...

What is fracking? You may have heard about the effects this oil and gas extraction technique have on the environment, but its impacts extend far beyond that. Between 2007 and 2016, oil production in ...

“Those are not issues that most counties, on an individual basis, are well suited to handle,” said Todd Votteler, former executive manager of science, intergovernmental relations and policy at the ...

Well sites with horizontal wells are able to make contact with more surface area of a rock formation compared to vertical well systems, which has also added to the production potential of the ...

“It’s a disaster waiting to happen,” said Sister Elizabeth Riebschlager, an 89-year-old Catholic nun from Cuero. Lack of a state floodplain policy enabled oil companies to build in parts of Texas hit ...