BlackRock Escapes Texas Oil-Boycott List After ESG Retreat June 5, 2025 By Danielle Moran BlackRock Inc. was removed from Texas’ blacklist of companies that boycott fossil fuels, ending a three-year standoff over the environmental...
Alberta Wildfires Shut About 7% of Canada’s Oil Production June 3, 2025 By Robert Tuttle Wildfires in Canada’s energy heartland of Alberta have shut down almost 350,000 barrels of daily heavy crude production — about...
West Texas Lawmakers Want to Divert Oil and Gas Taxes to Address Oil Patch Repairs March 27, 2025 By Carlos Nogueras Ramos, The Texas Tribune The fracking boom that resuscitated the Texas oil fields has also beaten up the infrastructure in the Permian Basin, the...
Delay in Federal Permits Hinders Texas Oil Companies’ Carbon Capture Projects February 11, 2025 By Carlos Nogueras Ramos, The Texas Tribune and Alejandra Martinez, The Texas Tribune Texas oil companies and regulators have waited years for federal permits that would allow those companies to suck carbon dioxide...
Less Methane Leaked in West Texas, Report Says; Environmentalists Are Skeptical January 29, 2025 By Carlos Nogueras Ramos, The Texas Tribune Less methane escaped into the atmosphere from certain oil and gas equipment and oil wells in 2023, according to a...
Texas Regulators Overhaul Oilfield Waste Rule January 22, 2025 By Martha Pskowski Texas regulators have completed the first overhaul of oilfield waste rules in over 40 years. The Railroad Commission of Texas...
Texas Refineries Prepare for First Winter Storm, Frigid January January 10, 2025 By Barbara Powell Texas refineries are bracing for an onslaught of cold, snow and freezing rain as the US South’s first major winter...
Biden to Ban More Offshore Oil Drilling Before Trump Arrives January 3, 2025 By Jennifer A. Dlouhy President Joe Biden is preparing to issue a decree permanently banning new offshore oil and gas development in some US...
‘Drill, Baby, Drill’ Is Unlikely Under Trump, Exxon Says December 2, 2024 By Mitchell Ferman Oil and gas producers in the US will not raise output significantly in the coming years despite calls from President-Elect...
About 17% of Gulf of Mexico Oil Production Shut Due to Hurricane Rafael November 7, 2024 About 17% of crude oil production and 7% of natural gas output in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico was shut...