FARWEST TEXAS

摘要

Exploration in new shale plays,development in tight-gas sands and rejuvenation of old fields are blowing sweeping changes through Texas'portion of the western Permian Basin.This is the legendary Trans-Pecos region of southwest Texas,long a crossroads and hardly ever a destination.Like the area's thick-curtained dust storms,people scoured through as fast as they could on their way to somewhere else.