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

OnlyFans viewers in sparsely populated counties in the Permian Basin spent more per capita than any others in the state, ...

A Permian Basin landowner alleges in a lawsuit that saltwater injection wells contributed to well blow-outs that caused ...

Andrew West, 34, was working at a site in DeWitt County in 2019 when he was run over by a truck driver who worked for John ...

A Texas jury awarded $46 million to the parents of Andrew Wetz, a 34-year-old oil field worker who was run over by a truck driver and left conscious for up to an hour before he died.

Christian Wallace investigated the real-life West Texas oil boom before co-creating the series with Taylor Sheridan.

Cleaning up oilfield pollution in arid West Texas is costly and complicated. The bankruptcy process allows companies to move ...

Deep beneath West Texas, federal scientists say there is still a massive cache of oil and gas left to tap, enough by their estimates to keep the country running for months. Put into everyday terms, ...

On a cold, windy day in west Texas, a couple hundred people showed up to break ground on a feedlot and education facility near Canyon. Kevin Pond, dean of the Paul Engler College of Agriculture and ...

A new USGS study finds major undiscovered oil and gas reserves in Texas’ Permian Basin. The resources could supply the U.S. with natural gas for 10 months and oil for 10 weeks. Advances in drilling ...

MIDLAND, Texas—For most Americans, cheap oil is good news. In Midland, Texas, it is a problem. Oil prices have mostly slumped since last spring, and the U.S. intervention in oil-rich Venezuela is ...

(The Center Square) – The Texas oil and natural gas industry reported job losses in October and November, according to the latest employment data released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The BLS’ ...