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Digging deep
Dusty lanes connect the oil well pads of Wasson Field in
Texas. Improved drilling technologies, such as hydraulic
fracturing (better known as fracking), have created a new
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natural gas and oil like that buried deep within western Texas’
Permian Basin. USA
PHOTO: GETTY/DIGITAL GLOBE
Wasson Field,
Texas
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