A conveyor belt more than 40 miles long runs from tiny Kermit, Texas, across state borders into Lea County, New Mexico.

The rumble of sand-hauling trucks is a familiar sound in the Permian Basin, but soon, that sound may come without a driver ...

The culprit was a dust storm (sand storm) over Texas that occurred earlier in the week on March 4th. The dust and sand were ...

It’s been called the longest conveyor belt in America and it’s right here in the Permian Basin, the heart of America’s oil ...

Atlas Energy Solutions, a Texas-based oil field company, has installed a 42-mile long (67 kilometers) conveyer belt to transport millions of tons of sand for hydraulic fracturing. The belt the ...

A more than 40-mile long conveyor belt filled with sand stretches from the oil fields of West Texas to New Mexico, all for the purpose of one mission: oil production KERMIT, Texas -- It's longer ...

This 'Dune' Isn't Fiction. It's the Longest Conveyer Belt in the US and Moving Sand in Texas KERMIT, Texas (AP) — It's longer than the width of Rhode Island, snakes across the oil fields of the ...

In remote West Texas, there are few people to marvel at the unusual machine in Kermit, a city with a population of less than 6,000, where the sand is typically hauled by tractor-trailers.

A 42-mile conveyor belt by Atlas Energy carries sand needed for hydraulic fracturing Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2025, in Kermit, Texas. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez) KERMIT, Texas (AP) — It's longer than the width ...