June 16, 2020
One of the largest private landowners in Texas is going to Delaware, in a legal sense anyway, and the papers have been filed….
June 16, 2020 Because of tech advances, the three states of Ohio, West Virginia and Pennsylvania together now produce more natural gas than Texas, according to a new report. IHS Markit said by …
RRC also approves San Miguel Electric Cooperative and Reeves County waste reservoir initiatives
June 16, 2020
Environmental leaders including Dallas’ Trammel S. Crow, oil and gas producers and Texas O&G trade associations spoke to the Railroad Commission of Texas on Tuesday with ideas on how to reduce natural gas flaring.
The commission has said it wants to find reforms aimed at reducing flaring during the current downturn in Texas well activity, before oil and gas activities begin a return to normal levels…..
June 15, 2020
As Distributed Generation (DG) and Demand Response (DR) continue to play a larger role in the Electric Reliability Council of Texas, it is becoming increasingly important that the grid operator understand how these resources complement other resources and support grid reliability…..
June 15, 2020
CenterPoint Energy Houston Electric LLC is moving ahead after closing on a registered public offering of $300 million in bonds…..
By Alex Mills
June 11, 2020
Consumption of oil and natural gas in the U.S. will increase during the remainder of this year, according to a new study by the Energy Information Administration (EIA) at the U. S. Department of Energy. Energy usage declined dramatically earlier this year as the nation went into an economic freeze caused by the coronavirus pandemic.
EIA released its Short-Term Energy Outlook on Tuesday forecasting U.S. liquid Fuels consumption will average 15.7 million barrels per day (b/d) during the second quarter (April to June) and 18.4 million b/d in the third quarter (July to September). Consumption averaged about 20 million b/d in 2019.
Natural gas consumption will average 81.9 billion cubic feet per day (Bcf/d) this year, down 3.6% from 2019….
June 11, 2020
The Texas Petro Index had its second-sharpest drop on record in April, according to the Texas Alliance of Energy Producers….
June 11, 2020
As the US continues searching for a politically-viable answer for disposing of nuclear power radioactive waste, Texas A&M University engineering researchers are developing a simple approach to separating out the different components of such waste.
Using grants from the US Department of Energy, scientists have come up with a one-step chemical reaction that results in the formulation of crystals, each containing all the leftover nuclear elements, distributed uniformly, as described in the February issue of the journal Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research….
June 10, 2020
GA Global Partners, LLC, Myron Bowling Auctioneers, Capital Recovery Group, LLC, PPL Group, and Terra Point today announced that the firms will conduct a real-time virtual public auction of the oil and gas production and processing equipment of Tri-Point, LLC on June 23, 24 and 25, 2020. Tri-Point is currently undergoing liquidation by order of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court….
June 8, 2020
Citing unnamed sources, Bloomberg reports Chesapeake Enrgy Corp. is preparing a potential bankruptcy filing that “could hand control of the oil and gas company to its senior lenders.”…
June 8, 2020
BP‘s CEO says the international oil company is laying off about 15% of its global workforce, amounting to the elimination of about 10,000 jobs — with many of the layoffs at BP’s US headquarters in Houston….
June 8, 2020
U.S. pipeline incidents have fallen more than 35 percent in the last five years, despite a 10 percent increase in miles of new pipelines constructed, according to a recent report by the American Petroleum Institute in collaboration with the Association of Oil Pipelines. During this time, oil and natural gas production was at an all-time high, and the number of barrels of product shipped through the line increased by 35 percent….
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June 8, 2020
The Texas owner of Omni Hotels is one of two big recent purchasers of Northern Oil & Gas Inc.‘s shares…..
June 8, 2020
Houston-based oil driller Alta Mesa Resources has won approval for its Chapter 11 liquidation plan….
June 8, 2020
A new report lists the capital of Texas tops for per capital solar energy installed….
June 8, 2020
Texas oilman and noted deep well explorer Roland Adam Hook died May 25th in Arizona, his family says….
June 8, 2020
While the US EPA says it considered a proposed plan from the TCEQ, it was unable to adopt the Texas proposal because of time constraints, as the EPA worked to complete an air toxins rule on risk values for the chemical ethylene oxide, which is used in the production of ethylene glycol and other chemicals….
March 7, 2020
Whether ERCOT is entitled to the legal immunity granted to government entities is at the heart of a motion that will be heard by the Texas Supreme Court as part of an appeal by the Panda Power Generation Infrastructure Fund….
June 6, 2020
The persistent cliche among all news media outside the state is that Everything’s Bigger In Texas, but the Tax Foundation says that’s not necessarily true when it comes to comparing the state’s Rainy Day Fund, when measured by percentage of overall budget….
June 6, 2020
Amplify Energy Corp. is back in compliance with listing standards at the New York Stock Exchange….