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Drilling Regulators Using Old Technology as Industry Booms

Oil and gas drilling continues to buoy the state's economy, but the Railroad Commission, the agency charged with regulating the industry in Texas, is struggling with what one commissioner called technology "stuck somewhere in the mid-'90s."

By Dave Fehling, Houston Public Media
Drilling rig in DeWitt County

Oil and gas drilling continues to buoy the state's economy, but the Railroad Commission, the agency charged with regulating the industry in Texas, is struggling with what one commissioner called technology "stuck somewhere in the mid-'90s." Read the full story at StateImpact Texas.

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