West Odessa is an unincorporated community in the heart of West Texas’ oil patch that has outgrown its water system, leaving ...

A bill in the Texas Legislature would require oil and gas drillers to notify landowners ... These earthen disposal pits are dug next to drilling rigs and are filled with oily waste, including ...

Rather than pulling oil out of the earth, the hole he was helping drill would be used to store clean, transient power from south Texas wind and ... in both the number of rigs and rig workers.

Baker Hughes said oil rigs fell by two to 484 this week, while gas rigs rose by one to 103. In the Permian basin in West Texas and eastern New Mexico, the nation's biggest oil-producing shale ...