The Railroad Commission of Texas has partnered with Texas Tech University’s Bob L. Herd Department of Petroleum Engineering to launch the RRC Field Inspector Training program, a new initiative aimed at strengthening the professional development of the commission’s oil and gas inspectors.
The Railroad Commission of Texas has partnered with the Texas A&M Engineering Extension Service on a new fire-prevention training program for its oil and gas field inspectors, the agency announced Aug. 3.
The Railroad Commission of Texas meets Tuesday to take up ExxonMobil's application to bury carbon dioxide beneath Jefferson County — the first big test of a permitting power the state took over from the federal government eight months ago.
The Public Utility Commission of Texas meets Friday on five applications to build the first 765-kilovolt power lines in Texas history, and its chairman has already said the commission will decide none of them.
Texas oil and gas wells surface roughly 24 million barrels of salty water every day — more than a billion gallons — and the state's plan to turn that waste stream into a water supply now hinges on rules still being written and a jurisdictional boundary two agencies admit they cannot locate.
The commission that decides whose radioactive waste may be buried in West Texas meets Thursday with 20 import applications in front of it — from a Michigan reactor, two Minnesota plants, an Army munitions contractor and more than a dozen others.
Texas Land Commissioner Dawn Buckingham announced Aug. 10 that the Texas General Land Office and the Railroad Commission of Texas have plugged 42 orphaned wells on state-owned submerged land, including 16 wells off High Island in Jefferson County, as part of the agencies' ongoing statewide Coastal Protection Project, according to a news release from the GLO.
The Railroad Commission of Texas issued 693 original drilling permits in July 2026, including 612 permits to drill new oil or gas wells, according to an Aug. 6 news release from the agency.
The chairman of the Public Utility Commission of Texas has called his fellow commissioners and the state's grid operator into a special open meeting this Friday, Aug. 14, to talk through the policy questions hanging over the Permian Basin power-line buildout — while promising that no final decision on the Howard-Solstice line, the biggest piece of that buildout, will be made in the room.
The Railroad Commission of Texas reported that statewide crude oil production reached a preliminary 129,523,336 barrels in May 2026, an average of roughly 4.18 million barrels per day.