Dallas-based Matador Resources received 14 drilling permits for its Stateline asset area in southern Eddy County, N.M., from the Bureau of Land Management. Matador said Dec. 17 it now has 24 permits to drill oil and natural gas wells on federal leasehold it acquired from BLM in its New Mexico lease sale in September 2018. […]

Crude oil production leader Permian Basin is expected to add an additional 48,000 barrels of production per day next month to reach 4.742 million barrels of crude oil per day, according to the drilling productivity report of Dec. 16 for seven major regions by the U.S. Energy Information Administration. Because of contractions in most other […]

The Texas Petro Index by petroleum economist Karr Ingham declined for the eighth straight month in October and fell below 200 for the first time since 2010. The index, based on a comprehensive set of industry economic indicators, was 196.9 for October (base 100 in January 1995). The index started the year at 212.5 in […]

Interim charges to committees in the Texas House of Representatives include a joint charge to the energy resources and ways and means committees to study the status of recycling and reuse of produced oil and gas wastewater and evaluate methods to incentivize these processes. Speaker Dennis Bonnen also requested that the energy resources committee study […]

Houston-based Baker Hughes said Dec. 11 it signed a 10-year agreement with French-owned power company EDF Energy to get 100 percent of electricity for its 170 facilities in Texas from renewable sources wind and solar. Baker Hughes said the power will come from the White Mesa wind farm of Apex Clean Energy near the west […]

Baker Hughes’ count of active oil and gas drilling rigs rebounded in the weekly report for Dec. 20 for the first gains in Permian Basin, Texas and U.S. since October. Baker Hughes said there were 414 rigs in Permian Basin (400 a week ago, 486 a year ago), 418 in Texas (400 previous week, 531 […]

Midland oil and natural gas company Henry Resources has the state’s most productive well, according to Enverus’ drillinginfo.com and the Houston Chronicle. Enverus ranked approximately 8,000 oil and natural gas wells in Texas this year based on production for the first six months of the life of each well. Henry operated three of the top […]

U.S. Energy Information Administration said recently that U.S. oil companies vented and flared a record amount of natural gas in 2018. Industry companies vented or flared 1.28 billion cubic feet of natural gas per day during 2018, the EIA said Dec. 6. At the current market price of $2.41 per million British thermal units, according […]