Tracking the players in the ever-growing energy and environmental world.
So much oil is being produced domestically that within a couple of years, Gulf Coast refineries may no longer need to import any light crude.
The occasionally close ties between academia and the oil and gas industry have come under greater scrutiny as of late, particularly after it was discovered that a University of Texas professor who led a study on fracking had been sitting on the board of a drilling company the entire time, with compensation totaling over $1.5 […]
Ah, manmade earthquakes. Something that certainly seems feasible, but just not right. There’s been a spate of quakes in the Dallas-Fort Worth area over the last few years, scientifically linked by geologists to wells used for disposing of fracking fluids. The two latest quakes hit Dallas Saturday night, followed by a minor one Sunday evening. […]
Update: On October 30, ERCOT announced that they will not need to keep the coal power units running this winter for transmission and system reliability. After a coal power plant said they’ll be shutting down some of their units over the winter, the group behind the Texas grid announced last week that it may pay […]
Power outages are a significant threat to petrochemical plants and refineries in Texas and have proven vexing for some facilities to reduce.
Why Texas is in a bit of a bind when it comes to landowners’ rights and the pipeline industry.
A new report by an environmental group says that fracking may be a bigger drain on state tax money than previously thought.
Somebody call Radioactive Man and Fallout Boy. A radioactive rod is missing in the West Texas desert. Sometime last Monday, September 11, a three-man team of Halliburton oilfield workers lost a radioactive rod used in hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking.” The crew believes it was lost in an area of about 130 square miles, somewhere between a well site in […]
Texans can now choose to get their power from 100 percent Texas-drilled natural gas. Through a new option from Direct Energy, a retail electric provider, customers can pay a little more — about six dollars extra a month on the average homeowner’s bill* — to get their power just from Texas gas. In Texas, Direct Energy serves cities […]
Early yesterday morning, something went wrong at the ExxonMobil refinery in Baytown, east of Houston. In an emissions event report to the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ), ExxonMobil reports that there was shutdown of a unit at the refinery after a heat exchanger tube leaked, and the event is still ongoing. Judging by the […]
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