![Dennis Johnson standing in front of an oil well in jeans and a hard hat.](https://img.texasmonthly.com/2019/12/dennis-johnson-henry-petroleum.jpg?auto=compress&crop=faces&fit=fit&fm=jpg&h=0&ixlib=php-3.3.1&q=45&w=270)
That’s Oil, Folks!
Forget the Outer Continental Shelf. There’s a good old-fashioned boom happening in Midland, thanks to a crafty drilling technique that unlocked the secret reserves of the Permian Basin and revived the late, great West Texas oilman.