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Nationally, the oil and gas rig count is up one from last week at ... The regional benchmark Plains-West Texas Intermediate Posting ended Friday at $64.76 per barrel, up $1.10 from last Friday's ...

The rig count in the Permian Basin was down one this week, the latest count Friday by Baker Hughes shows, with 304 rigs active in the region. A year ago, 313 rigs were active in the region. Nationally ...

The oil rig count in the US increased by 1 this week, oilfield services company Baker Hughes data showed Friday. The number ...

In the booming Permian Basin oil field, a large unincorporated community just outside of the city of Odessa proper has ...

But the measles cases in West Texas have been concentrated in a "close ... where small towns are separated by vast stretches of oil rig-dotted open land but connected due to people traveling ...

The state produced an average of 1.17 million barrels of oil per day in January, down from 1.19 million barrels per day in ...

LUBBOCK — A person who was hospitalized with measles has died from measles in West Texas, the first death in an outbreak ... area where small towns are separated by vast stretches of oil rig-dotted ...

The outbreak is largely spreading in the Mennonite community in West Texas, where small towns are separated by vast stretches of oil rig-dotted open land but connected due to people traveling ...