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Midland College holds ribbon cutting for the opening of Jack E. Brown Conference Hall

The building is on the main campus near the Siesta and Garfield St. entrance.

MC to celebrate renovation of conference hall

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TX winter storm: How power outages knocked out natural gas wells

At the same time, natural gas producers reported that “rolling blackouts” caused significant “production shortfalls.” “We saw these vulnerabilities,” said Joshua Rhodes, a research associate at the University of Texas Energy Institute. “We saw these issues. We wrote some reports, and then they sat on the shelf and apparently had no impact. I think Texas deserves better than that.” Credit: KVUE Power outages hit Permian Basin Situated in the Permian Basin, Midland has long been known as an epicenter of oil and natural gas production. “If Permian was a country, it would be like the fourth-largest producer of oil,” said Dr. George Nnanna, dean of the College of Engineering at the University of Texas Permian Basin. “In the last decade, we’ve seen about a 1.1 billion barrel increase in oil production and about 3.6 trillion cubic feet increase in natural gas production.”

TX winter storm: How power outages knocked out natural gas wells