Most of the roughnecks in Big Spring are like Goodwin, who dropped out of school in the 7th grade and has served some time in prison. Working in oil fields since his early teen years, he has been ...

Working in oil fields since his early teen years, he has been in Big Spring for two years. His leathered skin and calloused hands speak to a lifetime of hard labor.

Like many folks in the parched oil patch north of Big Spring, Phillips had taken notice of the football field-sized pits of water popping up at the edges of cotton fields, as well as the fat ...

BIG SPRING, Texas — The Railroad Commission has permitted Sinclair Oil and Gas Company to begin drilling two oil wells in Big Spring south of Farm-to-Market 700 this week.

Texas’ Eagle Ford Shale beats the Bakken to one million barrels of daily oil production. That’s good news for producers like Anadarko Petroleum, EOG Resources, ConocoPhillips and Chesapeake ...

In this article, we discuss the 15 biggest oil companies in Texas. To skip the detailed analysis of the Texas oil industry, go directly to the 5 Biggest Oil Companies in Texas. The United States ...

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 ...

Travel & Outdoors Relive Big Spring’s Glory Days at the Historic Hotel Settles Where to spend a weekend in this Permian Basin town, known for rail, oil, and Midnight Cowboy.

In addition to West Texas Gas’s Mako site, AP observed a large plume of gas escaping from tanks at a WTG compressor station about 15 miles away in the Sale Ranch oil field.

On Jan. 6, 2024, nine minutes before midnight, the police department in Ingleside, Texas, uploaded on Facebook a now-deleted public advisory about an oil leak from a tank at the Flint Hills crude ...

Early on Saturday, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia announced that 50 oil and gas companies — including Exxon Mobil, Occidental Petroleum, Shell, and several national oil companies — had agreed to ...