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Oil fields

Greater natural gas production is boost to U.S. at home and abroad

by Elizabeth Trovall
Oct 31, 2024
The expansion has boosted U.S. exports and brought down energy costs here at home.
An oil pumpjack in the Permian Basin, where natural gas production has tripled in the past decade.
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A Warmer World

Oil jobs abound in West Texas, but obstacles hamper hiring

by Andy Uhler
Jan 12, 2022
Is it the Great Resignation? A clean-energy future? Higher wages? Or all of the above?
Unemployment in Midland, Texas, has dropped since the summer, but the city's labor market remains tight.
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Chesapeake Energy bankruptcy raises new questions about oil and gas failures, abandoned wells

by Scott Tong
Jun 30, 2020
The company is being delisted from the New York Stock Exchange and seeking to reorganize.
A pump jacks draws crude oil in Signal Hill, California, in March.
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