The Permian Basin is the largest oil field on the planet. Tens of thousands of wells dot the 86,000 square landscape that spans West Texas and Southeastern New Mexico. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert!

"We're working to provide a more holistic understanding of the impact of oil field wastewater injection in the Permian Basin region by ... The geologic maps, pressure models, and data trends ...

Over the past 15 years, oil drillers turned a stretch of desert in Texas and New Mexico called the Permian Basin into the ...

Chevron's expansion of the technique, known as triple-frac, comes as the second-largest U.S. oil producer expects to continue growing output in the Permian ... field, the Denver-Julesberg basin ...