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TYLER, Texas (KLTV) - A trip to the East Texas Oil Museum in Kilgore is a trip back in time to the 1930s oil boom. “Oil was everywhere here,” said Olivia Moore, museum director. At the time of ...

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 ...

DALLAS — If a coal mine has a canary that gives an early heads-up, perhaps an early indicator for the oil and gas industry would be the quarterly Dallas Fed Energy Survey. It’s not as cute as a canary ...

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AUSTIN Statewide and county crude oil and natural gas production for May 2025 reported in the tables below came from 159,047 oil wells and 83,808 gas wells, a press release detailed. The RRC reports ...

AUSTIN Statewide and county crude oil and natural gas production for September 2025 reported in the tables below came from 156,568 oil wells and 83,910 gas wells, a press release detailed. The RRC ...