Often referred to as “white petroleum,” lithium is an integral part of the lithium-ion battery that you will find in your phone or laptop, as well as powering EVs and providing energy storage for major electrical grids. However, lithium is proving to be a double-edged sword. The global demand...
Clayton Williams - Legendary Texan
This past February, Texas lost one of the great characters that made it a successful state. Clayton “Claytie” Williams died in Midland, Texas on Feb. 14, 2020. This article is not written to be an obituary but as a series of recollections of my memories...
I recently spent three days attending events for Earth Day 2017 in Dallas. While it can be challenging at times to deal with the misconceptions of the anti-oil and gas opponents we cannot leave the marketplace of ideas to them alone. That Thursday I attended an alternative fuel vehicle...
This issue of SHALE highlights company and industry culture, but there is a developing national culture in the U.S. regarding the energy industry, and oil and gas in particular, that should give us pause. At a time when the domestic oil and gas industry is discovering, developing and producing...
After the introduction of unconventional extraction techniques in the 1990s with the Barnett Shale near Fort Worth, Texas, natural gas production began to rise significantly in the U.S. Prior to the widespread use of unconventional methods — specifically during the early period of deregulation from 1990 to 2010 —...
American energy development has a long history, going back well into the 19th century. Our industry is also associated with older movies like 1956’s Giant and older equipment like the counterbalanced pump jack, which goes back to 1925.
It’s great to have a colorful history — and to play such...
In case you hadn’t noticed yet, the oil and gas industry in the U.S. has not only recovered from its terrible, COVID-generated bust of 2020, it is actually now in the midst of a modest boom. It is not the leasing, drilling and fracking boom the industry experienced from...
Climate change and the risk of global warming are forcing countries to explore new and more sources of clean and renewable energies. Several countries are heavily investing in the development and adoption of renewable energy technologies including wave energy. Wave energy refers to the kinetic and potential energy captured...
Last Oct, Rystad Energy warned that inflation could freeze as much as half of the planned global solar power capacity additions this year. In Sept of last year, the Wall Street Journal’s Rochelle Toplensky wrote that wind power companies are suffering the lingering supply chain effects of the pandemic.
When...
A small, largely overlooked country in South America has become the center of the world’s oil future, offering low-carbon and low-cost oil production with the potential for an output of 1 million bpd. Guyana, which borders Brazil, Venezuela, and Suriname could be the world’s next big oil power, as...
