Over the past 15 years, oil drillers turned a stretch of desert in ... reservoirs, Permian oil is stuck in shale rock ...

The Permian Basin ... fracking fluid and sand needed per well — and with wells often down for maintenance — long lines of trucks, their drivers waiting hours in the desert without food ...

In just 40 days, a once barren plot of sand in this landlocked desert nation had become littered with ripe, sweet watermelons swelling under the Arabian sun. For a country that has to import 90% ...

With the rev of an engine and a last tremendous pull, Raghdan Salem Zodeh's SUV was freed from the sand and rising tides near a resort in the desert state of Qatar. Raghdan, 47, a Syrian living in ...