News & Updates

CERAWEEK 2010: On ‘Oil Day,' most see a future in fossil fuels

March 9, 2010 (Brett Clanton, Houston Chronicle) While most in the energy business agree the worst of the recession has passed, differing views emerged Tuesday at CERAWeek 2010 where the industry should focus its efforts in the years ahead.

Energy leaders will blanket Capitol

March 1, 2010 (Jennifer A. Dlouhy - Houston Chronicle) WASHINGTON — The leaders of dozens of independent oil and gas companies are at Capitol Hill this week to press lawmakers against hiking industry taxes and against imposing new federal regulations on drilling techniques.

Natural Gas Lobby Challenging Coal

March 1, 2010 (Jim Snyder - The Hill) Natural gas lobbyists, who felt their industry got the short shrift in climate legislation, are pushing new incentives to encourage utilities to switch from coal to natural gas.

Oil Industry Booms--in North Dakota

February 26,2010 (Wall Street Journal) State Is Riding High as Firms Develop Better Ways to Tap Huge Bakken Shale Deposit, Raising Hopes for U.S. Production.

Oklahoma Corporation Commission Chairman Bob Anthony defends drilling technique

February 26, 2010 (Tom Lindley, The Journal Record via WaterWorld) Oklahoma Corporation Commission Chairman Bob Anthony said Friday he isn't troubled by a U.S. House probe nto the escalation of horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing

Revenue, drilling on the upswing in the Haynesville Shale region

February 21, 2010 (Vickie Welborn, The (Shreveport) Times) <"Louisiana has a long and distinguished history of fueling America, and the fact that we are outperforming every major energy producing state in the nation at this time through increasing drilling rig activity is a sign that the best may be yet to come,"

Gas pains: Probe, study target fracturing technique

February 23, 2010 (Editorial, NewsOK) U.S. Reps. Henry Waxman, D-Calif, and Edward Markey, D-Mass., are investigating fracturing for its alleged environmental effects.

The Answer is Staring Us in the Eye

February 7, 2010 (Houston Chronicle - Michael Economides) Beneath the clamor, the rhetoric and the nonsense of the last month an enormous energy story unfolded,

EPA spells out carbon rules timeline

February 23, 2010 (Tom Fowler, Houston Chronicle). EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson issued a letter Monday in response to one from eight U.S.

Tech-Driven Natgas Boom Shifts Energy Balance of Power to U.S.

February 22, 2010 (American Enterprise Institute) A new technique being used to drill through a type of rock known as shale has led to a surge in domestic natural gas production over the last three years and enabled the United States to overtake Russia recently as the world's No. 1 producer of natural gas.