Thirty-five cents per barrel is 10 times what King might earn off his water when he uses it for irrigation. Dozens of irrigators in southeast Wyoming are vying to sell their water to oil drillers.

Federal officials are considering reopening vast areas of public lands in Wyoming and Montana to new coal sales. The ...

U.S. April oil production increased by 18 kb/d to 13,468 kb/d, a new high. The largest increase came from Texas, offset by a ...

Federal officials are undoing a Biden-era rule that ended new coal leasing in the prolific Powder River Basin spanning ...

Gov. Greg Abbott signed all three this month in Midland, saying in a statement that Texas is “bringing the full weight of the law to crack down on oil theft in the Permian Basin to protect the ...

The Bureau of Land Management Wyoming State Office on Tuesday, July 8, announced an oil and gas lease sale scheduled for Sept ...

ODESSA, Texas (AP) — At least three times a week, Darin Mitchell gets the call. Oil drums have been stolen. Copper wires were yanked. Other field equipment at an oil and gas facility was ...

"Texas creating task forces to target Permian Basin oil field thefts" was first published by The Texas Tribune, a nonprofit, nonpartisan media organization that informs Texans — and engages with ...

House Bill 48, by Darby, establishes a DPS-created oil field theft prevention unit. The members comprising it can enforce existing laws, in addition to providing training, resources and strategies ...