Numbers of hydraulic fracturing crews have dramatically increased in the past year, according to Bloomberg, but production in the U.S. shale patch has remained relatively flat. Citing data from Primary Vision, which has tracked fracturing crews since 2013, Bloomberg said June 22 the number of crews has increased to 235 after falling to a low […]

Houston-based Midstream Texas Operating and Kansas City Southern, whose primary U.S. holding is Kansas City Southern Railway, said June 29 they have reached a long-term agreement to provide truck-to-rail transloading services for petroleum and petrochemicals from Corpus Christi into Mexico. Operations are expected to begin in 2021Q4. On property leased from KCS, Midstream Texas will […]

FireBird Energy, upstream oil and gas company that operates properties in Midland Basin, and Arlington-based Priority Power Management said June 29 they reached a solar development agreement for Priority Power to develop and operate a 6.5-megawatt solar photovoltaic facility on FireBird land in Ector County. FireBird, based in Fort Worth with offices in Midland, agreed […]

Baker Hughes said June 25 counts of active oil and gas drilling rigs in Texas, New Mexico and U.S. remain unchanged in the past week. Texas has 221 rigs (112 year ago), New Mexico has 75 rigs (50 year ago), and U.S. has 470 rigs (265 year ago). There also are 236 rigs in Permian […]

Magellan Midstream Partners, Enterprise Products Partners and Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) said June 21 they are establishing a new futures contract for delivery of crude oil to Houston. The Midland WTI American Gulf Coast contract will be launched in early 2022, subject to regulatory approval, “in response to market interest for a Houston-based index with greater […]

Enverus reported recently that Houston-based EOG Resources tested its highest 24-hour rate since 2019 at an upper Wolfcamp well in Lea County, N.M., in Delaware Basin. EOG completed 55 net wells in Delaware Basin in 2021Q1, and it plans to complete 275 net wells there this year. Enverus said the Hawk 35 Federal #708H was […]

Houston-based Surge Energy US Holdings said June 25 it will partner with U.S. Well Services on a field trial using USWS’ all-electric Clean Fleet for Surge’s first completions with all-electric hydraulic fracturing. Surge is an independent oil and gas company focused on its 110,000 net acres in Midland Basin. Linhua Guan, CEO of Surge, said, […]

Gov. Greg Abbott signed into law June 18 a bill that created the Texas Produced Water Consortium at Texas Tech University. State and private groups will collaborate to study the economics, technology and environmental impact of the reuse of produced water. The consortium is required to develop a report by September 2022 to propose regulatory […]

Baker Hughes’ count of active oil and gas drilling rigs increased again June 18 to 470 – a gain of 93 percent since low of 244 in August 2020. There were also 237 rigs in Permian Basin (236 last week, 132 last year), 221 rigs in Texas (219 last week, 111 last year) and 75 […]

Crude oil production in seven major regions of the U.S. is expected to increase in July for the third straight month, according to the latest drilling productivity report from U.S. Energy Information Administration. An increase of 38,000 barrels per day is forecast for July to 7.803 million b/d from 7.765 million b/d in June. That […]