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McCamey is one of countless Texas towns formed in an oil boom. Wildcatter George McCamey struck oil in 1925 and soon several ...

Get in touch with Chloe Mayer by emailing [email protected] A 200-foot-wide sinkhole is growing at an alarming rate around an abandoned oil well in Texas, according to the family that owns the ...

An abandoned century-old oil well has wreaked havoc on a remote Texas town and made a family-owned ranch 'unstable.' A gigantic sinkhole has formed around an oil well on the Kelton Ranch in the ...

Volatile oil prices are setting ... the Permian Basin straddling Texas and New Mexico. Those two states are already responsible for cleaning up about 7,000 such abandoned wells, a task that ...

Read full article: Man’s decomposing body found near Alvin in Brazoria County A sinkhole in Upton County formed around an oil well that was plugged in the 1970s. The property owners and visitors ...

A sinkhole around an old oil well is growing at an alarming rate on the Kelton Ranch in West Texas. Radford Grocery #17 was originally drilled as an oil well in the 1950s and later converted to a ...