Blackbuck Resources defies the Texas Railroad Commission by operating near recent earthquakes – a legal battle that will ...

The Permian Basin, a region spanning west Texas ... like fracking and horizontal drilling in the 2010s. But the push to bolster fossil fuel production is heightening concerns among oilfield ...

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West Texas is so expansive that amid all the oil wells, in between towns and across roadways, there exists room for a 40-plus-mile-spanning conveyor belt whose function is to move sand from one ...

Scientists have attributed higher earthquake activity in the Permian Basin in West Texas to an increase in hydraulic fracturing — also known as fracking — in the area, which is the most ...

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Two strong earthquakes hit the Permian Basin, the largest U.S. oilfield, this week, shaking the Texas oil industry and ...

HOUSTON, Feb 18 (Reuters) - Two large earthquakes that hit the Permian basin, the top U.S. oilfield ... both in Culberson County in West Texas, according to the United States Geological Survey.