Fresh offerings of products and services for the oil and gas set. Keytroller unveils state-of-the-art affordable remote equipment monitoring Countless companies are faced with the real and often costly predicament of how to monitor and track the location of their equipment in remote jobsites. Solving this issue, Keytroller, a designer, manufacturer, and supplier of […]
Decoding the State of the Union: What It Means for Texas Oil
by Chase Beakley On Jan. 12, President Obama gave his final State of the Union address, which he promised would included more ideas for America’s longterm future than policies for his final year in office. However, he did highlight a few efforts that he intends to devote his attention to in 2016 and as […]
Carefully Consider Options When Facing a Lease Termination Dispute
By Conrad Hester Thompson & Knight LLP With oil dipping below the $30 per barrel mark, the continuing profitability of many oil and gas leases may be in jeopardy. The likely result will be a spike in claims that a lease has terminated due to a failure to produce in paying quantities. Whether a marginal […]
Odessa as Survivor and Thriver
Odessa comes out on top in manufacturing and distribution sectors. ODESSA, TX – As oil prices continue to spiral downward, the shares of at least some oil producers from the Permian Basin rank among the top performing energy stocks in the country, leading several sources to call the West Texas region a “rare glimmer of […]
Decision by Railroad Commission’s Porter Sparks Candidate Surge
by Ben Shepperd, President, Permian Basin Petroleum Association Railroad Commission Chairman David Porter has decided not to seek re-election. His decision, days before the candidate filing deadline, set off a scramble and we now have seven Republican and three Democrat candidates. We have developed two candidate forums to meet the candidates. One in Austin and […]
Parting the “Waters”
Texas-based oilfield observers respond to Waters of the United States In recent months, reactions to the Environmental Protection Agency’s latest governmental overreach—into the so-called “Waters of the United States”—has sparked strong pushback from Texas’ energy industry and its related regulatory bodies and political ties. We share here some remarks from various sources. RRC Files […]
Requiem for a Canadian Pipeline
Industrial and political insiders sound off in response to the killing of the Keystone XL pipeline in November. by Tony Burke, Assistant Editor On Nov. 6, President Obama rejected TransCanada Corp’s Keystone XL pipeline application. The killing of the much bandied-about pipeline was hardly done in the heat of the moment, but calculated […]
A Global Perspective
Colin Fenton, keynote speaker for the 2015 Annual Meeting of the PBPA, addressed the past, present and future of oil and gas—here and around the world. Colin Fenton, managing partner at Blacklight Research and Columbia University fellow, was the keynote speaker at October’s PBPA Annual Meeting. Hailing from the Ivy League, the corporate banking […]
The 2015 Border Energy Forum
On Oct. 16, the 2015 Border Energy Forum (BEF) concluded, following two days of intriguing speeches and panel presentations from some of the most prominent leaders across all platforms of the energy industry. The BEF is a bilingual event focused on fostering collaboration and conversation of the most efficient and technologically advanced uses of energy […]
A Finding for our Side: The Lesser Prairie Chicken
The U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas on Sept. 1 granted summary judgment in favor of the Permian Basin Petroleum Association and vacated the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) rule listing the Lesser Prairie Chicken (LPC) as threatened under the Endangered Species Act. In PBPA et al. v. Department of […]