Texas Petro Index posted its fifth straight monthly increase in August 2021 and its first year-over-year increase since June 2019.  The index from economist Karr Ingham of Texas Alliance of Energy Producers reached 154.1 in August 2021 after 150.5 in July 2021 and 148.9 in August 2020.  Ingham explained, “The rig count and industry employment […]

Houston-based U.S. Energy Corp. said Oct. 5 it agreed to purchase oil and gas assets from Lubbock Energy Partners, Synergy Offshore and certain entities controlled by Sage Road Capital in a deal valued at $99.5 million.  The acquired assets represent a diversified, conventional portfolio of operated, producing, low-decline, oil-weighted assets in west Texas, Eagle Ford, […]

Houston-based Pinon Midstream said Oct. 12 that Dark Horse, its greenfield sour gas treating and carbon capture facility, and associated pipelines and infrastructure have been placed into service in Lea County, N.M., in Delaware Basin.  Pinon said initial capacity of 85 million cfd is fully subscribed.  The facility was built to capture and permanently sequester […]

Odessa-based Saulsbury Industries said Oct. 12 it has started work after being awarded a construction contract to design and install the Dos Picos cryogenic processing facility in Midland Basin for Houston-based Pinnacle Midstream II.  Saulsbury said the facility (capacity 200 million cfd) will be its 60th cryogenic processing facility since 2006, including 22 in west […]

Fort Worth-based Chisholm Energy said Sept. 29 it contracted with Project Canary of Denver to install real-time air emissions monitoring devices on production facilities in Eddy County.  Chisholm said it’s the first independent exploration and production company in the New Mexico portion of the Delaware Basin to seek independent TrustWell certification of its operations from […]

Permian Basin and Texas continue to add drilling rigs as the price of a barrel of crude oil settled above $80 this week for the first time in seven years.  Baker Hughes said as of Oct. 8 there were 266 rigs in Permian (263 previous week, 130 previous year), 247 rigs in Texas (243 previous […]

Richardson-based Sentinel Midstream said Oct. 4 it will operate two ExxonMobil crude oil pipelines in the Houston area under a new joint venture with subsidiary ExxonMobil Pipeline.  Enercoast Midstream, the joint venture, will provide last-mile links for Permian Basin, Gulf of Mexico and other barrels in the Houston market.  For the JV, ExxonMobil will contribute […]

San Antonio-based Water Energy Services said Sept. 23 it acquired the fluid management and saltwater disposal well assets of Houston-based Key Energy Services.  Water Energy Services provides water logistics, fluid management, oil reclamation, saltwater disposal and water recycling in Permian Basin and Eagle Ford.  Assets acquired include 32 SWDs, frack tanks, transport vehicles and other […]

Rattler Midstream, subsidiary of Midland-based Diamondback Energy, said Monday it invested $104 million to acquire a minority interest in a joint venture that bought a majority interest in a Midland Basin gas gathering and processing company from West Texas Gas.  The assets consist primarily of an interconnected gas gathering system and six major gas processing […]