Dossier
Fort Stockton
Coverage of Fort Stockton in the Nexus archive.
- The grueling, 630-mile road race where the only fuel is sunlight
The 2023 Solar Car Challenge, a 30th-anniversary event, features high school students racing solar-powered vehicles in a 630-mile road race from Fort Worth to Fort Stockton, Texas. Participants design and build their own cars using off-the-shelf parts and 3D-printed materials, with the winner determined by the most driven miles.
- An old well began gushing oilfield wastewater in a West Texas church parking lot, sparking a costly cleanup
An old well in the parking lot of the First Baptist Church in Grandfalls, Texas, gushed thousands of gallons of oilfield wastewater, prompting the Railroad Commission to plug the wellbore. The incident occurred in a location southwest of Odessa, between Monahans and Fort Stockton.