From the Amarillo Globe News With the Ogallala Aquifer being an invaluable resource for communities throughout the eight states it lies, studies to keep the water levels steady are continuing in the South Plains in the hopes of delivering more tools and technology to help with conservation in agriculture. The U.S. Department of Agriculture office …
Companies quite familiar in Oklahoma’s oil patch are among the 20 top US energy companies that have agreed to contribute $16.5 million to open new schools in West Texas where they are active in the Permian Basin. Among them are Devon Energy, Cimarex Energy Co., Concho Resources, ConocoPhillips, and Halliburton Co. They are members …
Bloomberg News reports that the promise of the Permian Basin is shrinking. And it cites various reasons including pipeline limitations, wells drilled too close together, low natural gas prices and high land costs. But the most consequential is that shale-well production falls off at such a high rate — as much as 70% in the …
