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This story was produced in partnership with the Pulitzer Center. It is part three in a four-part series. Read part one here ...

Texas leads the United States in oil and gas production, including producing 43% of the nation’s crude oil and 27% of its natural gas in 2023. Yet its cornerstone industry could be straining the state ...

By integrating cutting-edge digital solutions, the oil and gas sector is undergoing a fundamental shift in how it operates, ...

On any other day, David Rodriguez’s truck would have been helping extract oil, and as he sucked mud from a well beneath a ...

Ohio produced a state record of nearly 30 million barrels of oil ... gas production has steadily declined since a high in 2019 of more than 2.5 million thousand cubic feet, according to the ...