July 11, 2018
US commercial crude inventories decreased by 12.6 million barrels last week (measured against the previous week), the largest one week draw since September 2016, according to a report Wednesday from the Energy Information Administration…
July 11, 2018
An appeals court ruled Tuesday that the Public Utility Commission of Texas was wrong in finding that SWEPCO acted “prudently” when it continued construction on a coal-fired power plant in 2010, construction that continued even after natural gas prices fell enough to put the economic viability of the plant into question…
July 11, 2018
Sanchez Senior Vice President and COO Christopher D. Heinson has resigned and will be taking a new job as CEO of an unnamed energy company, Sanchez Energy Corp. said Tuesday…
WASHINGTON — The American Energy Alliance (AEA) commends President Trump on his nomination of Judge Kavanaugh to the U.S. Supreme Court. AEA President Thomas J. Pyle, made the following statement:
“President Trump has made another outstanding decision in nominating Judge Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court. As a judge on the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, a primary venue for litigation against the administrative state, Kavanaugh established a solid track record of evaluating important regulatory issues relating to energy and environmental policy, and applying the Constitution in a fair, impartial and consistent manner…
July 10, 2018
Longtime Quorum Report staffer Mike Shiloh (call him SHY-low) is leaving the premier Texas political news publication to concentrate on The Texas Energy Report…
July 10, 2018
Vancouver’s Permex Petroleum is nearly doubling its assets held by production with a West Texas oil land deal…
July 10, 2018
Cheniere Energy has a new deal with Taiwan’s CPC Corp. in which the Houston company will supply LNG for 25 years…
July 10, 2018
Sumitomo Corporation is buying acreage in the Eagle Ford for production…
July 10, 2018
A LaPorte engineering firm was exonerated Thursday of claims that it failed OSHA standards in the death of an employee at a Beaumont refinery…
July 10, 2018
Range Resources has a new agreement with 17% shareowner SailingStone Capital Partners LLC to appoint two independent directors to the Range board…
July 10, 2018
A new solar power project is in the works for Pecos County, according to MMEX Resources Corp…
July 10, 2018
Petroteq Energy Inc. says it has a new enhanced oil recovery system for oil sands that’s about to be put to the test and, if successful, will be a breakthrough…
July 10, 2018
Anadarko Petroleum‘s board has given the go-ahead to expand the company’s share repurchase program to $4 billion dollars, meaning there will be an extra $1 billion for buybacks right away…
July 9, 2018
Austin American Statesman transportation columnist Ben Wear pointed out Friday that the estimate of total miles traveled in the US appears to be sputtering, and could be an early indicator of a slowdown in the economy and/or consumer spending (perhaps thanks to higher gasoline prices) — something worth watching as trade skirmishes develop….
July 5, 2018
Texas’s Don Willett is not on the short list of President Trump‘s choices for nominee to the US Supreme Court…
July 5, 2018
Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt has resigned, according to President Trump, who accepted his resignation….
By Alex Mills
The headlines in three separate reports about the oil and gas industry indicate strong performance during the first half on 2018 with high expectations about the remainder of the year…
July 5, 2018
No commercially-listed oil and gas wells appear to be in the path of a Palo Pinto County wildfire, about 70 miles west of Ft. Worth, so far….
July 5, 2018
An Iranian Revolutionary Guards commander said that Tehran will block oil shipments through the Strait of Hormuz in the Gulf if the United States bans Iranian oil sales, Reuters reported July 4th afternoon…
July 5, 2018
June saw another spectacular jump in Texas oil and gas production taxes contributing to a grand total of $2.77 billion in total state sales tax revenue for the month….
