March 25, 2021 — The Texas Senate voted Thursday to expand the state Public Utility Commission from three to five members, voting 30-0 for Sen. Charles Schwertner‘s SB 2154. The bill is now …
March 25, 2021 — As the Texas Legislature debates two bills that could remove wind and solar projects from the Chapters 312 and Chapter 313 programs, two allied groups have put together an …
March 25, 2021 — Houston’s NextDecade Corp. says it’s signed a term agreement with a subsidiary of Occidental Petroleum for the offtake and permanent geological storage of carbon monoxide from a planned Texas …
March 25, 2021 — Rep. Brooks Landgraf’s HB 2692, aimed at banning the storage and disposal of high-level nuclear waste in the state, has been voted out 6-2 from the Texas House Environmental Regulation committee. …
March 25, 2021 — State Sen. Charles Schwertner‘s SB 3 (see bill analysis) to require weatherization of power generators and natural gas facilities made it out of the Senate Jurisprudence committee on Thursday. …
By Alex Mills March 25, 2021 — The petroleum industry in the U.S. encountered a variety of bad news recently as a resurgence of Covid-19 came to light in Europe, demand projections were …
By Richard Axelbaum, Stifel & Quinette Jens Professor of Environmental Engineering Science at Washington University in St. Louis March 24, 2021 — In mid-February, Texans were plunged into a period of freezing cold …
March 24, 2021 –Dallas-based Tailwater Capital‘s Tall Oak Midstream has acquired natural gas gathering, treating and processing servicer Redcliff Midstream, Tall Oak has announced. Financial terms were not disclosed. Redcliff was founded in …
March 24, 2021 — Operations are now underway at Lucid Energy Group‘s Red Hills V cryogenic processing plant in the Delaware Basin. The project is capable of processing 230 million cubic feet of …
March 24, 2021 — The Woodlands-based Ring Energy is moving its vice president of finance to the position of CFO effective right away. Ring announced on Wednesday that Travis Thomas, the new CFO, …
March 24, 2021 — State Sen. Dr. Charles Schwertner’s SB 2154 to expand the Public Utility Commission of Texas from three to five members is out of the Senate Jurisprudence committee without amendments …
March 22, 2021 — District 97 Rep. Craig Goldman‘s Texas House Energy Resources committee on Monday considered and left pending bills that would give the Railroad Commission of Texas primary control over wells …
March 22, 2021 — District 34 Democratic Rep. Filemón Vela announced Monday he will not seek reelection next fall, becoming the second House Democrat to announce their retirement in what could be a …
March 19, 2021 — Economic consulting house Analysis Group says the company’s Senior Advisor Susan F. Tierney, Ph.D., provided testimony at Thursday’s US House of Representatives Committee on Science, Space, and Technology hearing on …
March 19, 2021 — ERCOT does have legal immunity against court claims against it, the Texas Supreme Court ruled with a 5-4 split on Friday in an unusual avoidance of the central legal …
By Alex Mills March 18, 2021 — The risks involved in the oil and natural gas business have been well chronicled in many books, including Ruth Sheldon Knowles’s The Greatest Gamblers and Daniel Yergin’s The Prize. …
March 17, 2021 — A bill filed by State Affairs committee Chair Rep. Chris Paddie is already causing controversy. HB 1505 would establish a process in which a broadband provider could apply to …
March 18, 2021 — District 30 state Senator Drew Springer has introduced a companion bill to District 81 Rep. Brooks Landgraf‘s “Texas Energy Independence Act.” Rep. Landgraf’s HB 1683 would forbid any state …
March 18, 2021 — Rep. Tan Parker has introduced a comprehensive bill to “protect the reliability of electric systems operating in Texas.” His HB 3791 endeavors to protect the grid against cyber attacks, …
March 18, 2021 — Had they been winterized, wind and solar would have been of significant help in providing electricity during the February power crisis, a Stanford University professor of civil and environmental …