March 30, 2021 — Davida Dwyer is the new deputy director of the Public Utility Commission of Texas‘ Legal Division and will head the agency’s enforcement efforts. The PUC said Tuesday that Ms. …
March 30, 2021 — A bill that would keep cities from banning natural gas in housing or commercial buildings passed the Texas House on Tuesday, bringing with praise from some in the O&G …
March 28, 2021 — CenterPoint Energy is offering a kind of “insurance” for its customers that covers home electrical systems and a new add-on plan covering electric vehicle (EV) chargers. The Houston-based provider …
March 21, 2021 — Texas lost 18,900 jobs in February, according to seasonally adjusted and benchmarked payroll employment numbers released Friday by the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas. The state added a revised 45,700 jobs …
By Mary Huber, UT News March 26, 2021 — As temperatures plummeted below freezing for 10 straight days and snow and ice blanketed Texas, all eyes turned to the state’s power grid to …
March 25, 2021 — There’s a LEGO toy connection to a new 13 MW DC solar project that’s now online, located about halfway between San Antonio and Victoria. Adapture Renewables Inc. said this …
Denver, CO-based electricity and natural gas “integrated infrastructure services” company Peak Utility Services Group is buying natural gas utility services contractor Superior Pipeline Services. Ft. Worth-based Superior Pipeline’s construction, gas maintenance and …
March 25, 2021 — Houston’s Superior Energy Services says Michael McGovern is the company’s new leader. The oilfield services company’s CEO David Dunlap (who also served on the board) and CFO and Treasurer …
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 …