November 20, 2018
What industry is responsible for one of the largest increases in electricity usage over the past few years?
Why, the marijuana growing business, of course — and electricity producers are starting to work with this new industry to smooth out power usage problems.
Growing pot indoors under a controlled environment takes lots of electricity because of the need for strong lighting, ventilation systems and pumps — it takes about 2,000 kWh to grow a pound of cannabis to be sold on commercial markets, more than a month, maybe two months worth of electricity needed to power the average home…
November 20, 2018
Vistra Energy Corp. continues its stock buyback program by closing on the discounted repurchase of a large number of shares from an unnamed investor…
November 20, 2018
In a major change, the Texas Alliance of Energy Producers‘ board is opening up membership to anyone in the oil and gas business and related industries….
November 15, 2018
The City of Denton is joining with other public utilities in two new contracts for the purchase of electricity from solar energy farms.
The success of the solar purchase project implies that the Gibbons Creek coal plant could be nearing the end of its usefulness….
November 16, 2018
BP Lower 48, the formerly-Houston-based BP spinoff that up and moved its headquarters to Denver, has a new name — and new offices in Denver and, well, Houston……
November 16, 2018
Carrizo Oil & Gas raised its full-year production guidance while beating financial expectations for earnings and revenue in it’s third quarter 2018 report….
November 16, 2018
Comstock Resources‘ third quarter 2018 report is divided in half — before Jerry Jones and after Jerry Jones….
November 16, 2018
Vanguard Natural Resources reports the third quarter closing of divestitures as it notes a net loss to Common Stockholders of $32.1 million, down from a $57.8 million net loss in the second quarter of 2018….
November 16, 2018
A 66 MW Texas solar project is changing hands…
November 16, 2018
Harvest Oil & Gas Corporation on Wednesday reported a Q3 net loss of nearly $10 million, down considerably from the $595.6 million loss for the second quarter of 2018…
November 15, 2018
Wolf Midstream Partners is launching a binding open season for long term shipping commitments on its proposed new pipeline….
November 15, 2018
Today Cheniere Energy announced the opening of its new Corpus Christi liquefied natural gas (LNG) export terminal. The Corpus Christi Liquefaction facility is Cheniere’s second LNG export facility in the U.S. and the first LNG facility in the state of Texas. The following statement can be attributed to Ed Longanecker, president of the Texas Independent Producers & Royalty Owners Association (TIPRO):…
By Alex Mills
November 15, 2018
While crude oil prices have declined 27 percent since Oct. 1, natural gas prices broke through the $4 barrier this week for the first time in four years.
On the crude oil side, worldwide demand has declined while supplies have increased.
Crude oil production in the U.S., Saudi Arabia and Russia reached some of their highest levels in history last month, offsetting supply losses from Iran and Venezuela.
Saudi Arabia announced that it would cut exports by 500,000 barrels per day (bpd) in December, and it is working with OPEC+, which is the new organization that includes some non-OPEC members such as Russia, to cut about 1 million bpd of production.
The Energy Information Administration (EIA) said this week OPEC production for 2018 and 2019 will be revised up by 60,000 bpd to 39.1 million bpd.
U.S. oil production also increased to 11.4 million bpd.
U.S. commercial crude oil inventories increased for the sixth consecutive week from Sept. 21 through Oct. 26, and pushed the U.S. inventories higher than their five-year (2013-17) average. U.S. crude oil inventories are forecast to increase from 421 million barrels in 2018 to 472 million barrels in 2019, putting more downward pressure on domestic oil prices, according to EIA…
November 15, 2018
Texas consumers are no strangers to fraud at the gas pumps — there have been hundreds of “skimmers” found at gas pumps over the past few years, some of them in the Austin area — but there may be a short term solution rather than the credit card company-mandated wholesale replacement of credit card readers….
November 12, 2018
Among the 428 bills — along with 24 proposed amendments to the state constitution — filed on Monday, the first day for filings among those headed for the 2019 Texas legislative session, were a full four in the House and two in the Senate…..
November 11, 2018
A pipeline rupture in West Texas was likely caused by worker sinking a new pipeline….
Environmentalist nonprofit cites benefits in fighting climate change in calling for financially strapped nuclear power plants to remain open, joining increasing activist calls to back nuclear for its low carbon footprint despite longstanding concerns about nuclear’s safety.
November 8, 2018
More than one-third of the United States’ nuclear power fleet—21 of 60 facilities that provide low-carbon electricity—will be or could be shuttered in the next decade before their operating licenses expire and replaced primarily by natural gas and coal, according to an analysis released today by the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) that assessed the economic viability of the U.S. nuclear power industry.
The plants, which are mostly smaller, single reactor plants, provide more than one-fifth of the country’s nuclear power.
According to the report, early nuclear retirements pose no threat to the nation’s electricity reliability and resilience.
The threat is the potential replacement of their low-carbon electricity with fossil fuels.
“The United States is facing a dilemma,” said Steve Clemmer, co-author and director of energy research and analysis at UCS….
November 8, 2018
Funeral services are set for Saturday November 10th for Donald William Clayton, the innovative oil and gas executive whose work took him around the world but who called Texas home….
By Alex Mills
November 8, 2018
The energy industry won three referendums on Tuesday that would have made energy production more expensive in Colorado, Washington and Arizona.
Environmental groups sought to make production of fossil fuels more expensive by mandating restrictions on production, taxing emissions, and requiring increased usage of renewable sources.
The referendum in Colorado, Proposition 112, failed 58 percent to 42 percent. It sought to increase the distance of new drilling locations, processing plants and gathering lines to occupied buildings from 500 feet to 2,500 feet.
Another proposal on the Colorado ballot would have allowed property owners to be compensated if their property had been devalued because of government action was defeated 53 percent to 47 percent.
Colorado, like many states, has increased its production since 2001 by 10-fold to 450,000 barrels per day making it the sixth largest oil-producing state….
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