Join us for our monthly lunch meeting at the Petroleum Club. $25 per person.

Tommy Taylor graduated from Texas Tech University in 1985 with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Petroleum Engineering.  He has worked for Fasken Oil and Ranch, Ltd. for 34 years and is currently serving the company as Director of Oil and Gas Development.  He is a member of SPE, IADC, and past president of the Permian Basin Chapter of the American Association of Drilling Engineers.  He is currently serving on the Executive Committee of the Permian Basin Petroleum Association and is a board member of the Southwest Petroleum Short Course in Lubbock, Texas.  Mr. Taylor is also a member of the Border Trade Advisory Committee with Texas Department of Transportation and was inducted into the Texas Tech University Petroleum Engineering Academy in 2014.

"The Permian Basin:  A Dump for all of America's High-Level Nuclear Waste?"

Holtec International Corporation and Interim Storage Partners/Waste Control Specialists have submitted applications for permits with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to construct two sites in the Permian Basin (located in Andrews County, TX and Lea and Eddy Counties, NM) as interim storage locations for all of the United States’ high level nuclear power plant waste.   “Interim” is defined as 40-100 years and the amount they anticipate storing here is 265,000,000 lbs. of the most toxic substance known to mankind.  The political leaders of Andrews, TX, Hobbs, NM, and Carlsbad, NM purport that their communities are in favor of bring this waste to this region and that the waste it is completely “benign”.   I believe it is important to understand exactly what waste is contained in these 21,000 containers and why one would want to call it "benign".  It is a very real possibility that all this waste will travel through Midland and Odessa via the railroads.