By Alex Mills The oil and gas industry in the U.S. produced the most petroleum and natural gas than in any other country during 2020, easily outpacing Russia and Saudi Arabia. Additionally, crude …
July 22, 2021 — Texas has enough electrical power to get through the rest of the summer, the PUC said Thursday. In a news conference, Public Utility Commission of Texas Chairman Peter Lake …
July 21, 2021 — An order for residents to shelter in homes and businesses has been lifted by officials for an area near Houston’s Dow Operations headquarters in Bayport southeast of Houston as …
July 20, 2021 — Improving economic conditions and growing demand for O&G is yielding hopeful new workforce data from the Texas Independent Producers & Royalty Owners Association (TIPRO), including more than 73,000 industry …
July 20, 2021 — The City of Seymour in North Texas is the latest electricity delivery authority to ally with Texas Electric Cooperatives (TEC). The new sole-source alliance includes the city’s municipally-owned electric …
July 12, 2021 — June oil production taxes were up 339% year-over-year in Texas, according to the Comptroller’s office, with natural gas taxes up a whopping 689% over the Covid-strapped month of June, …
July 16, 2021 — Today, Friday, is the final day for nominations for an award to honor executives in upstream, midstream, energy services & technology, renewable energy, and energy finance, the D CEO …
By Alex Mills Petroleum prices are rising as the economies around the world recover from the Covid-19 pandemic and demand has caught up with supply. The Energy Information Administration (EIA) this week forecast this …
By Alex Mills July 9, 2021 — Crude oil traders were in a perplexing situation this week. Some expected crude oil prices to rise following the failure of OPEC+ to reach a new …
July 12, 2021 — In another move to take advantage of improvements in technologies, the Railroad Commission today launched its new Pipeline Inspection Permitting Evaluation System (RRC PIPES). RRC PIPES is a centralized …
July 9, 2021 — The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has awarded UTSA an academic grant for $450,000. Miltos Alamaniotis, assistant professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, will use the grant …
A federal judge has signed an order distributing over $24 million to royalty owners and the lawyers that represented them in a six-year battle over improperly paid oil and gas royalties. Judge Keith P. Ellison in the …
A new report released by the Center for Biological Diversity details how pervasive and damaging offshore fracking and other extreme oil and gas extraction methods have become in the Gulf of Mexico since 2010. …
July 8, 2021 — We’ve known for a long time that helium is increasingly in short supply. Now it appears to be about 100 times more valuable than natural gas, as the US …
July 6, 2021 — More than a decade ago, Gwyn Prins and Steve Rayner characterized climate policy as an “auction of promises” in which politicians “vied to outbid each other with proposed emissions targets that …
July 6, 2021 — To add to reforms passed by the state legislature, Texas Governor Greg Abbott on Tuesday sent a letter to the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) calling for immediate …
July 2, 2021 — Fire at an oil pipeline in the Gulf of Mexico west of the Yucatan Peninsula has been extinguished, according to officials quoted by Reuters. The blaze started with leaking …
June 29, 2021 — Drilling for O&G as well as groundwater in the Eagle Ford and resulting effects on faults are among the causes of sinking along Texas’s coastline, Texas A&M University – …
June 29, 2021 — Authorities northeast of Dallas confirm that two people have died and three were injured in a natural gas pipeline explosion about 4 pm Monday, and the FBI has been …
By Alex Mills June 25, 2021 — Crude oil and natural gas prices continue to show strength for the fifth consecutive week as the global economy rebounds. Crude oil prices on the New …