View Texas Earthquakes in a larger map If you live in the East Texas town of Timpson, or nearby, chances are you’ve had a shaky week. It all started last Friday, very early in the morning, when an earthquake measuring 4.1 on the Richter scale struck just north of town, causing minor damage. Then on Tuesday, […]

Texas oil producers opened up the throttle on oil production in 2012. The state hasn’t seen such a banner year in oil output for nearly two decades, according to new numbers reported in Fuel Fix. November 2012 production of crude oil was up about 73 percent compared to the same time in 2011, according to […]

View East Texas Earthquake in a larger map A small 2.8 earthquake struck near Timpson, Texas, very early this morning, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. It’s the second earthquake in less than a week in the area. On January 25, a 4.1 quake struck some two miles Northwest of town, around the same time of […]

From the Texas Tribune:  The Railroad Commission of Texas regulates one of the most advanced industries in the world — oil and gas drilling. Yet the commission’s software systems, many of its rules and even its name are from another era. As the 122-year-old agency confronts a drilling boom that is altering the state and […]

Please join us in Austin tonight, January 28th, for a panel examining water issues in Texas featuring several state legislators.

A 3.0 magnitude earthquake struck Fort Worth near the DFW airport tonight, according to the US Geological Survey. At 10:16 pm, the quake hit five miles Northwest of Irving, just off the President George Bush Turnpike. Its epicenter was ten miles below the surface. On Twitter, people are reporting feeling the ground shake. “Loud and […]

The Fracking boom in the Barnett Shale has brought earthquakes to Dallas-Fort Worth.

If you think the price of natural gas is too low and think the solution is to increase demand by  exporting the stuff, who will benefit?

A new report by energy market analysts at Deloitte’s Center for Energy Solutions downplays the risk that exporting natural gas will cause prices to go up for consumers in the United States. “This shows why the government doesn’t need to put a lid on projects. This says you don’t need to artificially constrain this,” said […]

Oil and gas have always fueled dreams in Texas. Here’s one more. “It feels like Port Lavaca is right on the verge of something really big happening,” says Bob Turner, the city manager for this coastal community of 12,000 people.