Oil rigs checker the landscape around Loco Hills, New Mexico. Thousands of drilling platforms like these can be seen throughout southeastern New Mexico and western Texas, covering a region known the Permian Basin. This basin, which contains one of the world’s thickest deposits of rock from the Permian geologic period, accounted for more than one-third of U.S. domestic oil production in 2019.
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