Chesapeake Energy spokesperson Gordon Pennoyer has confirmed a third person who was hurt after an oil well blowout in Burleson County has died. A fourth person was also hurt, but their condition at ...

Last year, a 100-foot-high tower of oily saltwater exploded from the West Texas desert like Old Faithful. Poisonous hydrogen sulfide gas billowed from the geyser in plumes so powerful that workers ...

A Chesapeake Energy drilling site near Big Wells in South Texas uses fracking. The boom in shale gas drilling has created half a million jobs. Hawk Dunlap fought fires and blowouts in oil fields ...