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When a well reaches the end of economic production, it must be plugged according to the terms of a plugging permit. Where the onshore oil and gas rights are owned by the federal government, as is the case for much land in the western United States, the various permits must also be obtained from the Bureau of Land Management as well as the state ...
Church and Fields Exploration Company obtained a permit late in 1925 to drill for oil. The first well came in March 1926. [7] By 1927, an estimated 6,000 people were in the county, with 4,500 of them within the city of Crane. [8] Water was trucked in and brought from $1.00 to $2.25 a barrel, though at times the rates could be as high as $5.00 a ...
Oil producers such as Exxon Mobil and Royal Dutch Shell are burning off gas in the largest oil field in the United States without required Texas state permits, the environmental group Earthworks ...
Current API numbers are assigned by regulatory agencies, usually the oil and gas commission for the state where the well was drilled. These numbers are assigned as part of the well permitting process, and they may be the same as the well permit number. Current numbers are numbered sequentially beginning from 20001-60000 with some exceptions.
The Texas Railroad Commission announced in December 2023 that it was suspending permits for oil and gas wastewater disposal in Culberson and Reeves counties along the border of the two states, as ...
The industry’s fears were apparently unfounded. The high number of drilling permits issued under Biden concerns government watchdogs who complain that fossil fuel extraction on public land ...
During the 1990s, the Texas Legislature moved to make natural-resource protection more efficient by consolidating programs. In 1991, it combined the Texas Water Commission and the Texas Air Control Board to create the first version of the TCEQ, known as the Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission until fall 1993. [3]
Three Republican members of the State Board of Education are facing well-funded primary election challenges by opponents with ultraconservative ideologies, setting the stage for a possible tilt ...