February 3, 2021
West Des Moines, Iowa-based Career General Agency LLC (CGA Insurance Services), a subsidiary of GuideOne Insurance, has launched a managing general underwriter (MGU) program with its newly developed CGA Energy Division. Calling the MGU launch a “momentous achievement for our …
January 22, 2021
Construction on the long disputed Keystone XL oil pipeline halted on Jan. 21 as incoming U.S. President Joe Biden revoked its permit on his first day in office. The 1,700-mile (2,735-kilometer) pipeline was planned to carry roughly 800,000 barrels of …
January 6, 2021
Claims adjusting and environmental risk management solutions provider, Global Risk Solutions Inc., has acquired specialist energy sector adjusting and consultancy firm R Winkler & Co., based in Sugar Land, Texas. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. Led by founder …
October 14, 2020
Insurance brokerage IMA Inc. has opened its Houston office and appointed Ricky Bryan as executive vice president, director of Houston Energy. Bryan joins IMA after 15 years in leadership roles at Marsh JLT Specialty as senior vice president and as …
May 8, 2020
When you’re known as the energy capital of the world, oil busts are nothing new. But Houston now finds itself in uncharted territory — grappling with an oil downturn in the middle of a pandemic. Like in other cities, the …
May 6, 2020
After overseeing the state’s energy sector through one of Texas’ largest oil booms in recent years, the Texas Railroad Commission has suddenly found itself in the middle of two global crises that have delivered devastating reversals of fortune to the …
April 22, 2020
If it lasts, this week’s plunge in oil prices could hit the Texas economy in ways that make it much harder for state and local governments to help the state’s residents. It’s part of a double whammy on the state …
April 16, 2020
A top state oil regulator estimates that North Dakota producers have idled thousands of wells — amounting to more than a quarter of the oil wells in the state — as the U.S. oil industry crashed during the coronavirus outbreak. …
July 12, 2019
Most U.S. refiners whose plants are in the path of Tropical Storm Barry took steps on Friday to keep them running, even as forecasters warned that the second named storm of the season could become a hurricane just before landfall …
July 23, 2015
Leaders in Stillwater, Okla., approved new rules for oil and gas drilling within the city to the disappointment of industry representatives. A.J. Ferate, vice president of regulatory affairs at the Oklahoma Independent Petroleum Association, said the City Council’s approval of …