The rapidly-growing sinkhole in Upton County is the latest of many problems caused by old wells in the Permian Basin.

The oil-filled hole around a plugged well on an Upton County ranch is one on a growing list of problems cropping up with old ...

The sinkhole, which is so wide and deep that it could comfortably contain a four-story building, is feared to still be ...

A sinkhole around an old oil well is growing at an alarming rate on the Kelton Ranch in West Texas. Radford Grocery #17 was ...

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A sinkhole in Upton County formed around an oil well that was plugged in the 1970s. The property owners and visitors stand on the edge of the sinkhole's far side. Credit: Martha Pskowski/Inside ...

Such is the case with an oilwell-spawned sinkhole between McCamey and Rankin in Upton County, where an old well was badly plugged in 1973, made a sinkhole and deteriorated underground till the ...