New lease on life for Permian

Projects such as Trinity Co2’s Wellman Co2 enhanced oil recovery plant in the Permian basin, have helped underpin the West Texas renaissance

TRINITY

By Tom Darin Liskey Synder Texas

 28 June 2012 22:59 GMT

Driving across West Texas could make one believe that the Oil Age has reached its apocalyptic end.

Gutted gasoline stations, shuttered motels with oscillating VACANCY signs and weedy roadside cafes line the highways.

Even the blighted open space of a derelict drive-in, with its rusted superstructure and wind-shorn movie screen, stands abandoned like some forlorn recollection of the US’ former Automobile Age.

The days when oil gushers speckled the mesquite peppered landscape with hemorrhaging drops of crude are long gone.

Now gleaming wind farms line the ridges overlooking the rich sediment lands of the Permian basin.

Their slow-moving turbines blinking in the sunlight above pump jacks and cotton farms stand out in…

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