Leaking wells have become a scourge on Texas oil fields as the state contends with two overlapping issues: surging numbers of unplugged orphan wells left behind by bankrupt operators, and a growing ...

Oil workers pull tubing from an orphan well in a field in Luling on March 27, 2025. Credit: Lorianne Willett/The Texas Tribune LULING — Just six minutes from 5,700-person town’s historic city center, ...

A “first of its kind” lawsuit contends that oil companies including Chevron failed to properly plug and decommission wells on private property, challenging common assumptions about plugged wells. In ...

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply. Across Texas, abandoned wells are erupting with chemical-infused liquid ...

The two related problems — uncapped orphan wells and plugged wells failing, known as “zombie wells” — threaten Texas groundwater. Oil, fluids and the industry’s salty wastewater can flow up the well ...

LULING, Texas — This article was originally published by our content partners at the Texas Tribune. Read the original article here. Just six minutes from 5,700-person town’s historic city center, ...

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LULING Just six minutes from 5,700-person town’s historic city center, where an old oil museum still nods to the boom days, the ground groans as oil workers pull steel tubing — each piece is longer ...