A conveyor belt more than 40 miles long runs from tiny Kermit, Texas, across state borders into Lea County, New Mexico.

It is a new sight: the longest conveyor belt in the US. Atlas Energy Solutions, a Texas-based oil field company, installed a ...

The rumble of sand-hauling trucks is a familiar sound in the Permian Basin, but soon, that sound may come without a driver ...

The mayor of Amarillo has declared a state of disaster after a massive dust storm caused multiple fatal crashes. The storms ...

In remote West Texas, there are few people to marvel at the unusual machine in Kermit, a city with a population of less than 6,000, where the sand is typically hauled by tractor-trailers.

Atlas Energy Solutions, a Texas-based oil field company, has installed a 42-mile long (67 kilometers) conveyer belt to transport millions of tons of sand for hydraulic fracturing. The belt the ...

The rumble of sand-hauling trucks is a familiar sound in the Permian Basin, but soon, that sound may come without a driver behind the wheel. In a groundbreaking shift for the oil industry, ...