Texas O&G Activity Increases for Second Straight Month
The Texas Alliance of Energy Producers released its January Texas Petro Index (TPI) on March 7. The group, which represents the interests of the O&G...
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Senator Ted Cruz’s Endorsement for the Oil and Gas Industry is Timely
Houston-based land-contract drilling services provider Scandrill hosted an official visit by U.S. Senator Ted Cruz (R), on Monday, February 20, 2017. The purpose of the...
High Acreage Costs Price Out Competition in Permian
The U.S.’ most saturated shale oil play has become too saturated with companies trying to squeeze out a profit. Land and asset prices are reaching...
Oilfield Helping Hands Named 2017 Beneficiary of OTC Distinguished Achievement Award
Oilfield Helping Hands (OHH) has been named the 2017 beneficiary of the Offshore Technology Conference (OTC) Distinguished Achievement Award. OHH is a nonprofit charitable organization,...
Texas Petro Index Indicates an End to Two-Year Contraction in Oil and Gas
Texas Petro Index (TPI) announced today that upstream oil and gas activity in Texas ended its 24-month-long contraction in December. TPI is a composite index...
Texas Railroad Commissioner Sitton Joins Research Consortium on Seismicity
Texas Railroad Commissioner Ryan Sitton in November 2016 joined a research consortium that is working to understand both naturally occurring and potentially induced seismicity in...
Gulf Tech Receives Full Certification as a SEMS Audit Service Provider
Gulf Tech, an auditing firm based in Plano, Texas, has been working on becoming a fully accredited Safety and Environmental Management System (SEMS) audit service...
US Geological Survey Discovers Largest US Continuous Oil and Gas Deposit in Texas
by Tim McNally
The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) estimates that it has discovered the largest continuous oil and gas deposit ever assessed in the U.S. The agency on...
EPA Commends Texas Environmental Program
by Alex Mills
Newspapers across Texas ran a story on Aug. 24 proclaiming that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued a report on Aug. 15 that “there is...
RRC Helps Create Natural Preserve from Abandoned Oil Field
The Texas Railroad Commission’s (RRC) Site Remediation section helped turn a historic, abandoned oil field site into part of one of the state’s newest natural...