BIG SPRING, Texas — Well before dawn every morning ... oil drilling rig laborers — before heading to work in the oil fields of the Permian Basin. As his rusty Acura bellows across a dark ...

BIG SPRING, Texas — The Railroad Commission has permitted ... but during this time you may see an increase in oil field traffic and noise. Officials of Big Spring say the Kentwood and Highland ...

Like many folks in the parched oil patch north of Big Spring, Phillips had taken notice of the football field-sized pits of ... in the heart of the West Texas oil patch. And like most people ...

If you were to quickly drive through downtown Big Spring, you might mistake it for yet another gritty West Texas outpost bypassed ... Big Spring has ridden the highs (oil discovery, wartime ...

Wastewater disposal in the Permian Basin is boosting pressure underground, threatening to hinder oil production ...

A ramp-up of shale oil production has seen Texas emerge as one of the biggest producers of the key energy commodity. Most of the big oil companies ... of the largest oil fields in the world.

HB 3707, introduced by longtime Texas kingmaker and Permian Basin state Rep. Tom Craddick (R), targets illegal handling of ...

Looking to oust a Democratic district attorney in rural West Texas, Republicans have an unusual ... concern over the region’s aging oil-field infrastructure — corroding pipes, many attached ...