This story is featured in the September/October issue of ETX View Magazine. The legacy of the oil industry runs deep in East Texas and continues today. An unforgettable discovery of a large oil field ...

Crude oil output reached an estimated 5.9 million barrels per day in November, the highest level ever recorded in U.S.

Hawk Dunlap fought fires and blowouts in oil fields around the world over a 30-year career, but nothing prepared him for what he found when he finally came home to Texas. There, on the Permian Basin’s ...

Texas oil and gas companies celebrated the state winning the authority to permit certain types of carbon capture projects that would inject carbon from the atmosphere into the ground. The ...

Texas is about to deploy a potential solution to the oil industry’s toxic wastewater problem — but it’s a move that carries ...

A Chesapeake Energy drilling site near Big Wells in South Texas uses fracking. The boom in shale gas drilling has created half a million jobs. Hawk Dunlap fought fires and blowouts in oil fields ...

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