Oil and gas company Apache Corporation says it’s discovered a large new oil field in a rural part of West Texas that could hold billions of barrels of oil. The company says the “Alpine High” oil field was discovered after two years of exploration in a part of West Texas that’s seen some drilling, but nothing like Apache’s now hoping for. The company’s acquired more than 300,000 acres in a part of southern Reeves County that spokesperson Castlen Kennedy says was previously thought to not contain much oil and gas. “And what Apache really did was kinda challenge that thinking – and through new technology tried to understand that geology – and low and behold that traditional thinking was wrong,” Kennedy says. The new wells that Apache has already drilled have angered some who worry the industry’s creeping into a corner of Texas where it’s had a much smaller presence until now. Some West Texans have been particularly concerned about increased drilling’s effect on Balmorhea State Park –

Source: Texas Public Radio