The rapidly-growing sinkhole in Upton County is the latest of many problems caused by old wells in the Permian Basin.
The Permian Basin is the largest oil field on the planet. Tens of thousands of wells dot the 86,000 square landscape that spans West Texas and Southeastern New Mexico. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert!
which centers on an expansive oil-producing region extending across western Texas and eastern New Mexico known as the Permian Basin and has been driven by the increasing use of novel technologies ...
Critical to extreme fire conditions are expected to affect more than 2.7 million people across the Southwest, lower Great Plains and Texas, including the oil-rich Permian Basin. A large low ...
Local leaders say the oil boom has caused strains that their city and county budgets can’t keep up with.