Activism and Deception Underlie Weather Channel’s Eagle Ford Shale Report
A new investigative report by InsideClimate News and the Center for Public Integrity – promoted and produced by the Weather Channel – concludes that shale...
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Oilman Cartoon – GOM Cutting Platform Maintenance Cost with SPAM
The power of SPAM, and I am not talking about emails. In the time before electronic devices conquered the world, the word SPAM had a...
U.S. Takes First Step Toward Fracking Disclosure Rules
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said it would gather public comment for 90 days on whether to require chemical manufacturers to disclose the contents of...
Jamie Rood, Photographic Artist – A Day on the Rig: Viking
On the morning of the last day of August 2010, returning from my Colorado tour, I left my parents place to head over to the...
Oklahoma Governor Mary Fallin, Met with Pres. Obama in Support of the Keystone XL Pipeline
A leading Republican governor claimed Monday that President Obama will make a decision on the Keystone XL oil pipeline within “a couple of months,” but...
Oklahoma Universities Offer Energy Education Programs
The growing oil and natural gas industry has spawned a unique challenge, and the state’s universities have created programs to address the need. Oklahoma City...
Oklahoma’s Not Alone in Finding Fracking Not Linked to Earthquakes
The Texas Railroad Commission apparently isn’t shaken up by Ohio regulators’ decision to limit hydraulic fracturing after finding the process may have touched off minor...
Wildcatters Rush Spindletop in Return to East Texas Oil
From the storied King Ranch near the Mexican border to the 1901 Spindletop well in East Texas– the most famous gusher of all time–oil companies...
U.S. CO2 Emissions at Lowest Level in 20 Years, Thanks to Fracking
Something to celebrate this Earth Day: carbon dioxide emissions in the United States are at their lowest level in twenty years, and the Intergovernmental Panel...
Smitherman: Texas Could Break Oil Record by 2020
Texas Railroad Commission Chairman Barry Smitherman said Friday the shale revolution could drive the state’s oil production to record levels before the end of the...