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The Delaware Basin is a geologic depositional and structural basin in West Texas and southern New Mexico, famous for holding large oil fields and for a fossilized reef exposed at the surface. Guadalupe Mountains National Park and Carlsbad Caverns National Park protect part of the basin.
The Permian Basin comprises several component basins, including the Midland Basin, which is the largest; Delaware Basin, the second largest; and Marfa Basin, the smallest. The Permian Basin covers more than 86,000 square miles (220,000 km 2 ), [ 1 ] and extends across an area approximately 250 miles (400 km) wide and 300 miles (480 km) long.
Delaware River watershed. The purpose of the Commission is to bring the Delaware River under collective and balanced control, and to ensure fair usage by the states. To this end, the Commission conducts programs related to water quality protection, water supply allocation and water conservation, regulatory review and permitting, watershed planning, drought management, flood mitigation and loss ...
Mar. 1—A decision last week by the Delaware River Basin Commission would ban fracking through the Delaware River watershed, including Berks County. There had been a temporary moratorium ...
The Morrow Formation is found in the Delaware Basin of southeastern New Mexico. Map of Delaware Basin. Morrow sand was largely deposited in the NW Shelf of the basin An example of the flatness found in the region. Image from near the Carlsbad Caverns in Carlsbad, New Mexico.
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UpCurve Energy currently operates a leasehold position of 12,000 net acres in the core of the southern Delaware Basin, producing 12,000 boe/d.
The waters of the Delaware River's basin are used to sustain "fishing, transportation, power, cooling, recreation, and other industrial and residential purposes." [ 1 ] : p.9 While the watershed is home to 4.17 million people according to the 2000 U.S. census , these bodies of water provide drinking water to 17 million people, roughly 10% of ...