Foreign Policy (blog)Greasy Palms Dept.: Congress To Repeal Oil and Mining Anti-Corruption RegulationForeign Policy (blog)The House of Representatives geared up this week to repeal an obscure anti-corruption regulation aimed at the oil and gas industry bef …

ReutersAs oil recovers, US firms descend on the Permian Basin in West TexasReutersHere in the Permian Basin of West Texas, the largest U.S. oil patch, the industry poured more than $28 billion into land acquisitions last year - more than triple what they s …