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7 unusual facts about Permian Basin


Bill Noël

In 1936, he moved to the Permian Basin of West Texas to work as a chemist in the Gulf Oil Wickett refinery.

Kermit, Texas

The town moved the last working wooden derrick in the Permian Basin from Loving County to Pioneer Park in Kermit in 1966 as a symbol of the importance of the oil industry to the economy of Kermit and Winkler County.

Permian Basin

Permian Basin (Europe), a basin in the subsurface of northern Europe, centred around the North Sea

Richard Crawford White

Originally, White represented a monstrous district stretching from El Paso all the way to the Permian Basin--a distance of over 42,000 square miles.

Rudy Juedeman

Within the next several years, Juedeman exerted a behind-the-scenes role in the development of the Permian Basin division of the Texas Republican Party and did not always receive proper recognition for his role as the original “Mr. Republican” of Ector County.

In Odessa Juedeman became active in many civic causes, including the Chamber of Commerce and the boards of both Odessa College and the University of Texas of the Permian Basin.

Texon, Texas

The town was named for the Texon Oil and Land Company, which drilled the first successful oil well in the Permian Basin.



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Nompatelize

The commune occupies an ancient volcanic plateau which has been coated at the edges with Permian sandstone deposits which become thicker to the south and east in the Permian basin of Saint-Dié.