The Railroad Commission reports Texas produced over 2 billion barrels of oil in 2024, crossing the 2-billion-barrel threshold for the first time ...

The fracking boom that resuscitated the Texas oil fields has also beaten up the infrastructure in the Permian Basin, the ...

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KERMIT, Texas -- It's longer than the width of Rhode Island, snakes across the oil fields of the southwest U.S. and crawls at 10 mph -- too slow for a truck and too long for a train. It's a new ...

Critical to extreme fire conditions are expected to affect more than 2.7 million people across the Southwest, lower Great Plains and Texas, including the oil-rich Permian Basin. A large low ...

Beach Petroleum Limited is largely protected from declining oil prices for the remainder of ... which has traded at a premium for most of 2008 to the West Texas Intermediate (WTI) price that ...