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The company adds hundreds of wells across multiple basins, marking its first major move outside the Permian and signaling ...

The Odessa American is the leading source of local news, information, entertainment and sports for the Permian Basin.

A report found methane emissions in the Permian Basin to be nearly four times higher than EPA estimates. A senator wants an ...

The EIA has added the Avalon, Barnett, Dean and Woodford to its estimates by formation of Permian tight oil and shale natural ...

West Texas has been a longtime cash cow for the oil industry. Now it holds promise for automated trucking companies, too. The Permian Basin is home to America’s most productive oil field, but soon the ...

Recent satellite monitoring revealed that actual emissions from the West Texas and southeast New Mexico basin are four times ...

The Trump administration has seized and begun selling millions of barrels of Venezuelan oil following the ousting of leader Nicholas Maduro, aiming to control the world's largest oil reserves. This ...

As AI continues its rapid expansion, so does the demand for energy to power it, and the Permian Basin may soon emerge as a ...

Even with oil prices climbing, people in West Texas say it doesn’t feel like the start of another boom, at least not yet.

Gas flares at a Texas oil production and storage facility. This article originally appeared on Inside Climate News, a nonprofit, non-partisan news ...