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In March, a sheriff's deputy drove out to an oil field west of Odessa after the owner called in to report two of his storage tanks were short more than 400 barrels of crude, worth about $31,000. There ...

West Texas oil executives, who were some of Donald Trump's biggest supporters last election, say the president's trade and ...

MIDLAND, Texas - Governor Greg Abbott on Thursday signed into law a suite of bills aimed at strengthening the state’s oil and ...

Abbott also signed Senate Bill 529, referred to as the “Economic Development Magnet,” which supports large-scale hotel and ...

Gov. Greg Abbott signed pro-growth bills into law on Thursday to support the oil and natural gas industry and promote ...

Midland and Odessa, with a combined population of more than 200,000, is one of the nation's top oil and natural gas centers. Its situated on the West Texas plains between El Paso and Dallas.

Today, a delegation of members of the oil and gas industry in Nigeria arrived in the Midland/Odessa area all to meet ... There are so many fields, there's so much production coming out of here.

But the push to bolster fossil fuel production is heightening concerns among oil field ... part of Texas was dying,” said Kirk Edwards, CEO of Latigo Petroleum and a Midland-Odessa business ...

Tom Craddick of Midland and Brooks Landgraf of Odessa would redirect ... also devote money to oil field cleanup and emissions reduction programs managed by the Texas Railroad Commission and ...

Practically everyone knows that working in the oil fields of the Permian Basin is not easy. It can be backbreaking work, ...

Texas oil town Odessa and Denver joined the top 10 US metropolitan areas with the highest weekly wages over the past year. San Jose, San Francisco and Midland, Texas, — Odessa’s bigger sister ...