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Texas Drilling Permits September 12-18: RRC

September 21, 2019

Permit applications approved by the Texas Railroad Commission for Sept. 12 through Sept. 18 for Districts 7C, 8 and 8A.

Numbers in parentheses indicate the number of permits approved for that leasehold.

Hover over permit information to see RRC file links.

 

Anadarko E&P Onshore LLC, Griffin State 56-3-41 Unit, Reeves, new drill (3); Magic State 56-3-39 Unit, Reeves, new drill (3); APC Fee 6, Loving, new drill.

Apache Corporation, CC 33, Upton, new drill.

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Oil Supplies Ample After Attack on Saudi Oil Facility

By Alex Mills

The attack on an oil processing facility in Saudi Arabia last week has raised new questions about the reliability and security of oil supplies in the future.

The attack on the Saudi Aramco Abqaiq oil processing facility, the world’s largest crude oil processing stabilization plant, occurred on Sept. 14, and originally took out approximately 5 million barrels per day (b/d) of the facilities capacity of 7 million b/d.

Crude oil prices on the futures markets initially increased about 10 percent closing at $68.10 for Brent and $61.95 for West Texas Intermediate on Sept. 16. However, by midweek prices had dropped to $63.52 for Brent and $58.10 for WTI.

Saudi Aramco stated it expected to resume full production by the end of September. Meanwhile, crude oil exports to customers will continue without interruption by drawing on existing inventories and offering additional crude oil production from other fields.

The Energy Information Administration (EIA) at the U.S. Department of Energy reported tanker loading estimates from third-party data sources indicate that loadings at two Saudi Arabian export facilities have been restored to the pre-attack levels……
 

ETP Joint Venture Suit Against Enterprise Products Goes to Texas Supremes

However it rules, it appears likely that in ruling on the case the state high court will provide new guidance for more specific language in joint-venture partnership contracts.

September 17, 2019

Energy Transfer Partners may still have a chance to win the $535 million case it brought against Enterprise Products Partners now that the Texas Supreme Court has agreed to hear the case, which amounts to a case in point in how to form business partnerships, especially in Texas….
 

New Incentives Needed for Recycling, Reuse and Continued Management of Texas’ Produced Water: New TAEP White Paper

September 17, 2019

With new emphasis on water and its use in oil & gas development in Texas, a new white paper from the Texas Alliance of Energy Producers takes an overview of the management of produced water and related policies, challenges and solutions.

The rise in fracking and the technique’s extensive use for water both in production and as byproduct of that production is placing a premium on water management, which includes new power from the state legislature to the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality for regulation of produced water handling and runoff, paid programs to soften produced water impacts on local areas and clarification of produced water ownership.

But increased federal and state action is needed, the white paper notes.

The TAEP report called Sustainable Produced Water Policy, Regulatory Framework, and Management in the Texas Oil and Gas Industry: 2019 and Beyond warns of a need for continuing management of the water byproduct of oil & gas development and operation — the result of an “increased need for treatment to support recycle, reuse and disposal of produced water,” as the organization put it…..
 

Debate: The Oil Companies Knew All Along — Rex Weyler, Greenpeace

By Rex Weyler

September 13, 2019

After [World War II], the U.S., Britain, France, and Russia rushed for Middle Eastern oil fields. It was then that petroleum engineers understood that rising carbon emissions would heat Earth’s atmosphere. In 1950, the American Petroleum Institute (API) opened a research project into the global heating impact of carbon emissions for US President Lyndon Johnson’s Science Advisory Committee.

Meanwhile, in Russia, climatologist, Mikhail Budyko published “The Heat Balance of the Earth’s Surface,” warning that growing fossil fuel use would melt polar ice, changing Earth’s reflective qualities (albedo), a system feedback that would accelerate heating. In 1960, US scientist Charles David Keeling demonstrated an unequivocal rise in atmospheric carbon dioxide.

By 1965, the American Petroleum Institute issued a final report. “There is still time to save the world’s peoples from the catastrophic consequence of pollution, but time is running out,” wrote API president Frank Ikard. “Carbon dioxide is being added to the Earth’s atmosphere by the burning of coal, oil and natural gas at such a rate that by the year 2000 the heat balance will be so modified as possibly to cause marked changes in climate beyond local or even national efforts.”……
 

Debate: “Climate Change” Is A Hoax — Kurt Schlichter, Townhall

By Kurt Schlichter

September 9, 2019

Observing that “climate change” is steaming garbage served in a dirty ashtray is not disputing that the climate changes. That the climate is not static, and never could be static, is one of the myriad reasons that this whole idea is ridiculous. The planet gets hotter, it gets colder, sometimes quickly, sometimes over eons, and there are a bunch of reasons why, like the sun and volcanos.

Human-produced carbon might be one of the factors, but there’s simply no evidence that it is a significant one. Of course, if they really cared about carbon, they would be up in arms about China and India, which are upping their output while we are slashing ours. Yet the object of their ire is your New York strip. Gosh, does that seem consistent with 1) someone truly concerned about atmospheric carbon, or 2) someone who trembles with joy at the notion of bossing around you rubes out in gun/Jesusland?

The underlying premise of their claims seems to be that there is a “right” temperature for the earth; watch them sputter when you enquire about that perfect setting for Earth’s thermostat. Remember, if you ask questions you hate “science.” If they did stop telling you how you hate “science” long enough to respond, they might explain that of course there’s no perfect temperature – it’s not like LA, where it’s always 72 degrees……
 

Yemen’s Houthis Say Saudi Oil Facilities Continue to Be Targets, But Was It Really Iran? Or Hezbollah? — Report

Bloomberg News Opinion Writer Eli Lake: “As one Hezbollah commander told two George Washington University analysts in 2016: ‘Who do you think fires Tochka missiles into Saudi Arabia? ‘It’s not the Houthis in their sandals, it’s us.'”
 
September 16, 2019

Houthi rebels in Yemen said Sunday night that Saudi Arabian oil facilities are still among their targets.

This, after attacks on Saturday against two key oil sites cut output by the Saudis in half.

Bloomberg News reported Sunday evening that the Iranian-backed rebel group, cited by the Houthi’s television station, said its weapons “can reach anywhere in Saudi Arabia.”……
 

CPS Energy- EPRI Symposium To Help Foster Successful Electrification Initiatives: Press Release

September 15, 2019
Private industry, utility, and government decision-makers have been added to the speaker lineup for “The Electrification Experience” symposium – being hosted by CPS Energy and the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) on October 2-3, 2019, in San Antonio – to provide added insights on the role of customer engagement and innovative technologies in enabling more widespread electrification adoption…..