The rapidly-growing sinkhole in Upton County is the latest of many problems caused by old wells in the Permian Basin.

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 ...

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 ...

A sinkhole in Upton County formed around an oil well that was plugged in the 1970s. The property owners and visitors stand on the south side. Credit: Martha Pskowski/Inside Climate News UPTON ...

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 ...

A sinkhole in Upton County formed around an oil well that was plugged in the 1970s. The property owners and visitors stand on the edge of the sinkhole's far side. (Martha Pskowski/Inside Climate ...