Texas Pacific Water Resources, subsidiary of Texas Pacific Land Corp., held ribbon-cutting ceremony last week for a new treatment facility near Orla in Reeves County.  It’s designed to treat up to 10,000 barrels or 420,000 gallons of produced water a day.  A day later, Aug. 11, Senate natural resources committee chaired by Kevin Sparks (R-Midland) […]

Christi Craddick of Midland this week was elected chair of the Railroad Commission of Texas to succeed Jim Wright.  A member of the commission since 2012, Craddick will lead the commission that oversees the state’s oil and natural gas industry, pipeline safety, natural gas utilities, energy infrastructure, and surface coal and uranium mining. After her […]

The first group of oil and gas inspectors from Railroad Commission of Texas recently attended a four-day course in Lubbock in the commission’s new partnership with Texas Tech  to enhance professional development of inspectors.  The course at Tech’s Department of Petroleum Engineering is designed specifically for oil and gas inspectors. Marshall Watson, department chair, told […]

Houston-based Battalion Oil said last week it completed preparations for a drilling program, including up to 8 wells at Monument Draw in Ward County.  Execution is scheduled to begin with a four-well pad.  Targets are distributed across Third Bone Spring and Wolfcamp A and B.  Battalion will remain the operator, retain a majority interest, and […]

A partnership of Petroleum Professional Development Center at Midland College and Permian Basin Petroleum Association will present the annual Permian Basin Environmental Regulatory Seminar next week.  The one-day event will be held Thursday, April 30, at Bush Convention Center in Midland. Among the speakers will be two officials from the Railroad Commission of Texas, Austin […]

Golden Pass LNG, the nation’s tenth liquefied natural gas terminal, shipped its first cargo from Train 1 this week.  The shipment left port Wednesday 23 days after achieving first LNG production.  U.S. Energy Information Administration said Golden Pass LNG is the nation’s only new LNG export facility expected to begin shipments this year. Golden Pass […]

Senator Kevin Sparks of Midland has been named chair of the natural resources committee of the Texas Senate by Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick.  After the departure of five senators, including four committee chairs, Patrick named leaders of standing committees and new interim committees.  They will remain in their positions through the 90th session of the […]

Phillips 66 and Kinder Morgan said Monday they will advance the proposed Western Gateway pipeline for refined products to supply fuel to Arizona and California.  The project with capacity of 200,000 barrels per day is designed as a refined products system of 1,300 miles with new-build pipeline from Borger to Phoenix.  It will be combined […]

The count of active oil and gas drilling rigs in U.S. declined for the second straight week while Permian Basin reported 242 rigs for the third week in a row.  Baker Hughes said as of April 17 there were 543 rigs in U.S. (down 2 in past week, down 42 or 7.18 percent from 585 […]

Houston-based EagleRock Land last week filed with the SEC for an initial public offering that could raise up to $200 million.  EagleRock Land collects royalties and fees from oil and gas production on the land it owns and manages in Permian Basin.  It owns or controls about 236,000 acres of surface land in Delaware Basin […]