December 31, 2020 — Houston-area-based Primoris Services Corp. says it has a new $100 million contract to put together a utility-scale solar complex. The Deer Park company is to engineer, procure and construct …
December 30, 2020 — A Beaumont law firm is filing a class action lawsuit against the Kansas City Southern Rail Company (KCS) in connection with a late October Southeast Texas train derailment that …
December 30, 2020 — San Antonio’s CPS Energy continues with its Smart City plans, participating in state-of-the-art upgraded street light tech expected to monitor not only power and gas but will keep an …
HAPPY NEW YEAR! By Alex Mills December 30, 2020 — The viability of the oil and natural gas industry in Texas in 2021 relies upon finding the answers to many questions raised during …
December 28, 2020 — Crude oil and natural gas production as reported to the Railroad Commission of Texas for October 2020 came from 168,616 oil wells and 84,760 gas wells. The RRC reports …
December 28, 2020 — Camber Energy Inc. says it’s buying 51% and effectively taking control of Viking Energy Group through purchase of $20.1 million in Viking common stock. The purchase price on last …
December 27, 2020 — Offshore drilling contractor Pacific Drilling, which maintains an office in Houston, is emerging from bankruptcy. The company filed for Chapter 11 reorganization in November in the Southern District of …
December 23, 2020 — Germany’s RWE is selling a 51% stake in four of its wind farms in Texas to an Algonquin Power & Utilities Corp. subsidiary. The stake in the four farms owned …
December 23, 2020 — With the Houston-Austin-San Antonio areas recently identified as having unique potential for the electrification of the trucking industry, there are new signs that Texas could move forward even faster …
December 23, 2020 — Spanish conglomerate Acciona’s newest renewable power producer is online in Cameron County. The company said this week the 198 MW La Calupa facility near Harlingen is now selling on …
December 23, 2020 — Midland’s ProPetro Holding Corp. has tapped an experienced oilfield business leader as the newest member of its board. The praised G. Larry Lawrence‘s broad experience across finance, accounting and …
December 22, 2020 — Despite attempts by the unlikely allied forces of Calpine, Vistra and environmentalists, the largest utility in the state of Maine is planning construction of a transmission line from Canada …
December 22, 2020 — Inside Congress’ $1.4 trillion funding package accompanying its Covid-19 relief package passed Monday night were numerous provisions providing tens of billions of dollars for just about every form of …
December 21, 2020 — The Railroad Commission of Texas has its latest Year In Review out, with details of how the agency has improved. “When the COVID-19 pandemic gripped the world in 2020, …
December 21, 2020 — The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality is holding a public meeting regarding a new non-rule air quality standard permit for marine loading operations on Jan. 21, 2021 at 10 …
December 21, 2020 — Israeli geothermal company Ormat Technologies Inc. is buying a shovel-ready energy storage plant in Upton County, south of Midland-Odessa along the Edwards Plateau, from Con Edison Development. No financial …
December 21, 2020 — Infinite Energy, which retails electricity in Texas, is being acquired by Gas South. The deal closed on Friday at an unspecified sale price. Infinite Energy’s retail electricity business in Texas is …
December 20, 2020 — Denver’s Earthstone Energy has a new agreement to buy Permian operator Independence Resources Management, a Houston-based independent E&P backed by Warburg Pincus and its affiliates. Aggregate purchase price is …
December 20, 2020 — Eastern New Mexico’s 522 MW Sagamore Wind Project along the Texas border is now online. It’s now New Mexico’s largest single wind farm and was completed last week by Minneapolis’ …
December 19, 2020 — Introducing real-time variables into analysis of hydraulic fracturing during drilling is one aspect of O&G production being scrutinized by Texas A&M researchers with the goal of improved reservoir evaluation …