Hydraulic fracturing led the town's economic prosperity

For large town, the oil and gas exploration to promote the rapid development of the local economy so that population growth is rising sharply. This allows the mayor has been very busy secretary. "Busy! Busy! Very busy!" Big Town mayor secretary Evelyn Oman said: "The rapid development of oil and gas industry makes us everywhere at once."

About a year, is located in Midland, Texas - Odessa southeast, west of Big Town Shenganjila by the impact of a new round of oil boom, thanks to mining method for  hydraulic fracturing  the effective application. This mining method with water,  Proppant  and sand strata fracturing process will be better then extracting oil and gas. On the railway to do is set up a new site where unloading sand. Exploitation of new wells continue to promote more oil and gas companies have sprung up.

Oman said, according to the 2010 census, the city's total population of 2936 people, and every day 300 to 400 people per year. "Due to traffic congestion, you can not even go to the grocery store in the morning." The periphery of the town, dotted with derricks peripheral scenery. Mention the well lit at night lights, she said, these "Christmas tree" is illusory.

Reagan County Sheriff's Department, Sheriff Jeff Garner said, the town would be more noisy occasionally, most of them occur in different oil and gas companies, but most people who work in the town will be home for the weekend. He said that although the majority of criminal records are in the average, but traffic grew very rapidly. Garner said: "The number of accidents increased five-fold."
All hotels are packed, Oman Who says you can not point out which restaurant to eat, because the car parked in the street everywhere.

Oman think that prosperity will continue for two years. She said the town does not provide for the future development does not make long-term plans. Town secretary said that the current officials are hoping to commandeer a large town of the land surrounding the University of Texas. In the future be part of the funds should be used to repair oil fields, in that case, it will not work as they are now making money.