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 ...

just west of Big Spring. In the years since, the oil industry has converged on this part of West Texas like never before, using fracking to tap a vast, 20 billion-barrel reserve once thought to be ...

Texas’ Eagle Ford Shale beats the Bakken to one million barrels of daily oil production. That’s good news for producers like Anadarko Petroleum, EOG Resources, ConocoPhillips and Chesapeake ...

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

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 ...

ODESSA, Texas (AP) — The fracking boom that resuscitated the Texas oil fields has also beaten up the infrastructure in the Permian Basin, the state’s biggest oil and gas drilling region.

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.

The Spanish Arrive in Texas.” Amid such a crush, you might easily overlook Bryan Mealer’s “The Kings of Big Spring: God, Oil, and One Family’s Search for the American Dream.” That would ...