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Sandstorm, 1894 Main Street, 1894 Bank of America Building, Midland's tallest. Midland was established in June 1881 as Midway Station, on the Texas and Pacific Railway.Its name came from its central location between Fort Worth and El Paso, but because there were already other towns in Texas named Midway, the city changed its name to Midland in January 1884 when it was granted its first post ...
The Permian Basin comprises several component basins, including the Midland Basin, which is the largest; Delaware Basin, the second largest; and Marfa Basin, the smallest. The Permian Basin covers more than 86,000 square miles (220,000 km 2 ), [ 1 ] and extends across an area approximately 250 miles (400 km) wide and 300 miles (480 km) long.
Location of the Spraberry Trend in Texas, showing major and nearby cities. Black lines are county boundaries. The Spraberry Trend (also known as the Spraberry Field, Spraberry Oil Field, and Spraberry Formation; sometimes erroneously written as Sprayberry) is a large oil field in the Permian Basin of West Texas, covering large parts of six counties, and having a total area of approximately ...
Nov. 15—MIDLAND — The Permian Basin Area Foundation has awarded $2,816,000 to nonprofit organizations serving West Texans during its fall community grant cycle. "Every one of these grantees ...
Dec. 4—MIDLAND — Construction firm Robins and Morton has begun work on the new Permian Basin Behavioral Health Center in Midland. The 200-bed, $225 million facility, which will be built on a ...
Jan. 3—MIDLAND — Permian Basin Area Foundation has announced the opening of the 2024-2025 scholarship cycle. Students and counselors may view eligibility and selection criteria for ...
The Midland Reporter-Telegram is a daily newspaper in Midland, Texas. It is located in the heart of the vast 54-county Permian Basin of West Texas, a geological region which produces 70 percent of the oil in Texas. The newspaper's special coverage includes the "Permian Basin Oil Report", a weekly section devoted to news of the gas and oil ...
This is the first assessment of continuous resources in the Wolfcamp shale in the Midland Basin portion of the Permian. [9] During the 1980s, vertical wells produced oil in the Wolfcamp area. [ 10 ] However, since 2000 in North America, horizontal drilling or porpoising along with hydraulic fracturing have grown tremendously and are tapping the ...