There was a circle in Maria Burns' yard where grass wouldn't grow and trees died. She knew what it was: An old natural gas ...

Like any athletics official, Murray State Director of Athletics Nico Yantko knew that Racers Head Baseball Coach Dan Skirka ...

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No matter how the fighting unfolds, it promises to increase prices at the gasoline pump just as voters' natural gas and ...

Oil fields are just as quick to make fortunes as break them. The 1901 Spindletop gusher in Texas jumpstarted the petroleum age, crashing oil prices. A mere two years later, over-extraction drove ...

The day after Wild Mary was brought under control, another well in the same 160-acre lease came in as a gusher, but it was brought under control relatively soon.

Oil-price controls, export taxes and capital restrictions long made it hard to do business. Those policies, along with ageing conventional wells, caused oil production to wane during the 2000s.

With high hopes, Allen Moye, 39, a hard-scrabbling cotton planter and hog raiser, gave rights to Humble Oil & Refining Co. to drill a wildcat well on his 100-acre farm, just five miles above the ...

When Spindletop blew open, sending columns of oil gushing 150 feet into the air over Beaumont for nine days, it ushered in a new age for Texas and the world. The economic boom that ensued made Texas ...