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Researchers in New Mexico are using oil and gas wastewater to grow hemp and sunflowers in an effort to reuse fracking ...

The sand transportation system, used for crude oil production in the Permian Basin, began shuttling proppant in January.

Props to Camden Thompson for breaking Whitehall's career points record, plus looking at the Rockford boys' strong season, a ...

Areas of Central and South Texas, including in the Austin and San Antonio regions, have felt substantial tremors lately. What ...

U.S. drilling activity increased with the Permian Basin leading the surge, as Baker Hughes reports a rise in rig count for ...

Amielle Lake walks us through how industrial water treatment company CarboNet not only survived, but also grew to dominate ...

"This is one of the most horrific tragedies I've dealt with in the oil field," is how Kent Buckingham, an oilfield injury ...

REEVES COUNTY — A man was killed and two others have been reported as injured following an oilfield industrial accident on ...

The Reeves County Sheriff’s Office has released new information about an oil field accident that killed one and seriously ...

Landman’ director-producer-writer Taylor Sheridan’s version of West Texas depicts cartel violence, earthquakes caused by ...