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Following a welcome by Sweetwater Mayor Greg Wortham, the first speaker of the event was introduced. Ben Shepperd, the president of the Permian Basin Petroleum Association (PBPA) discussed the opportunities and innovations within the oil and natural...

It’s all about oil in West Texas. The area is home to the Permian Basin, the most prolific oil-producing formation in the U.S., a hydrocarbon-rich collection of formations that stretch from Texas into New Mexico. Once written off as a place for tumbleweeds...

COMMENTARY: I was prompted to comment on elected officials’ statements after reading about the increasing cynicism in government. Courtesy photo Neal Jones The mistrust I uncovered was in the weekly round up from our congressional representative,...

AUSTIN — There’s no slowdown visible so far. But oil prices slumping below $60 per barrel have started to cast a shadow over booming South and West Texas, where crowded restaurants, expensive hotel rooms, convoys of heavy trucks and “help wanted” signs...

Geologists say a new survey shows an oilfield in west Texas dwarfs others found so far in the United States, according to the US Geological Survey. The Midland Basin of the Wolfcamp Shale area in the Permian Basin is now estimated to have 20 billion...