The Texas authority acknowledges the scale of the problem and is setting new rules that may increase manufacturing expenses.

The post is correct that the shaded area of the map, known as the Permian ... Oil and Gas Resources in the Spraberry Formation of the Midland Basin, Permian Basin Province, Texas," May 2017 ...

More: Shaky Ground: The link between the Permian Basin's fossil fuel industry and ... “These tremors can be used to study the rocks in a formation, and how and where it’s moving,” he said.

While the Permian Basin—including its Midland eastern lobe and Delaware western lobe—in West Texas is by far the king as it amazingly produces almost half of record-high U.S. crude oil ...

Higher gas-to-oil ratio and water-to-oil ratio in the Permian suggest that some formations in the basin are reaching geological constraints, and more drilling isn’t necessarily proportionate to ...

Wallace was no longer working as a roughneck by this time; he had built a career as a journalist at TM magazine and was making a podcast called “Boomtown” about the Permian Basin oil patch.