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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Last week at Big ... oil field for months—looking for cheap oil lands. In 1927 he brought in a little well in Ector County, opening the Ector pool, and promptly sold a half interest to Texas ...

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 ...

LENORAH, Texas — To ... where pumping oil and gas is considered both lifeblood and birthright. At Big John’s Feedlot, a burger and barbecue hut in Big Spring, the parking lot one day last ...

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.

Texas regulators are warning that wastewater from fracking in the biggest US oil basin is causing a “widespread” increase in underground pressure — a development that risks hindering crude ...

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 ...