Railroad Commission of Texas decided this week that it will not require cutbacks in crude oil production by Texas operators to address depressed prices during global oil oversupply. Chairman Wayne Christian and commissioner Christi Craddick voted to dismiss earlier proposals to allow prorationing by Pioneer Natural Resources and Parsley Energy and commissioner Ryan Sitton. “This […]
Gravity Oilfield Services ships storage tanks
Midland-based Gravity Oilfield Services said last week it shipped more than 1,000 storage tanks in recent weeks and has another 4,000 available to operators in Permian Basin, Eagle Ford and Haynesville. “As a result of the decline in their normal use for frac or mud tanks, we are making them available for crude oil storage,” […]
Navigating a Twofold Crisis
You have to like a guy who does the thing that gives people a measure of hope. Just when the grimness of the colossal price drop in crude oil was deflating people’s outlook for their economic future, someone did something uplifting. Kirk Edwards published an “Open Letter to President Trump” in the Odessa American on […]
Where Will All the Water Go?
As operators in the Permian and elsewhere across the United States and around the world announce capex cuts of 50 percent or more, drilling rigs are stacking up like dry bones in the valley. A two-thirds (so far) reduction in drilling means a similar cut in frac’ing. Saltwater disposal wells (SWDs) and their attached pipelines […]
Tech Adds New Energy Degree
In March Texas Tech University announced the impending implementation of a new degree program in the university’s Energy offerings. William R. Keffer, Director of Energy Law Programs, shared the news of a new Master of Science in Interdisciplinary Studies (MSIS) in Energy. “I’m very excited to announce a new degree in energy that we’ve been […]
Were Oil & Gas Producers Hedged For Price Collapse?
By Shane Randolph and Josh Schulte While energy markets continue to be volatile, fewer oil and gas producers have hedges in place than in prior years. In addition, a number of producers hedged with strategies containing sold puts on large portions of their production. This essentially creates a trap door where a company doesn’t have […]
GlobalData: Coronavirus Creates Supply Chain Upsets
Following the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak, China—the world’s biggest importer of crude oil—has been forced to cut down on consumption. The resulting oil price crash is having a cascading effect on forward and backward industrial supply chains, as well as oil and gas projects across the value chain. These are likely to result in changes in […]
Nowhere to Go: Oil Cuts Loom
IHS Markit expects up to 10 MMb/d of world oil production will be cut or shut-in from April to June 2020 as oil storage fills up and output from financially strapped companies begins to fall. If oil cannot be sold or stored, it cannot be produced. Transportation constraints and lack of access to every available […]
Service Company Rewards Employees’ Safety Consciousness
Nine Energy Service, Inc., announced in March that Matthew Vick of Marietta, Ohio, and Osbaldo Alcaraz Arana of Enid, Okla., each won a 2019 Ford F-150 XLT truck in Nine’s Truck Giveaway, which celebrates and recognizes employees’ commitment to safety. Thirty employees, each of whom demonstrated outstanding safety track records, qualified for a chance to […]
Industry groups dispute new EDF research on growing emissions
A new study from Environmental Defense Fund and Harvard University released April 22 said methane emitted by oil and gas companies through venting and flaring in Permian Basin continues to grow to record levels. And industry groups such as Texas Methane and Flaring Coalition and Texas Oil and Gas Association continue to criticize the EDF […]
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