There are few things — if any — that are more important to our lives than water. Without water, human life ceases to exist.
Texas is all too familiar with frequent periods of drought and increasing demand on our water supply; when we think about challenges with water it’s usually...
I became a fan of shale when I leased my property in rural Pennsylvania to a gas drilling company over a decade ago. I became an advocate when I saw how much shale was doing for counties unlike my own where the Delaware River Basin Commission has yet to...
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Are Industry Participants Ready?
Since lifting its 40-year-old ban on exporting crude oil, the U.S. has opened hungry world markets to U.S. shale oil and created a new boom. Throughout the summer of 2018, U.S. crude oil exports consistently exceeded 2.0 million barrels per day, doubling the amount of exports...
The San Antonio Pipeliners Association (SAPA) teamed up with the Women's Energy Network (WEN) South Texas Chapter to co-host a women in leadership luncheon. The event was held on April 16th at the Valero Energy Headquarters. The luncheon featured a panel of talented local leadership including Nora Teixeira of...
As we move further into 2019, we’d like to give an overview of the trends we see developing in the cybersecurity and data privacy area for the year. We’ll be sure to elaborate on these areas with more details as they unfold.
State legislation continues to move the data privacy...
The South Texas Energy & Economic Roundtable (STEER) and the Texas Oil & Gas Association (TXOGA) joined forces to share a positive energy diversity message with San Antonians at the 2019 King William Fair, a staple in the annual Fiesta activities. The organizations gave out the essentials: paper fans,...
The Women's Energy Network (WEN) held its national conference on March 27-29 in Denver, Colorado. WEN members from around the country converged at the Gaylord Rockies Resort & Convention Center to hear from speakers and panels in four tracks: legal/regulatory, technical, financial and leadership. Keynote addresses included Dr. Christine...
On April 16, Colorado Governor Jared Polis signed SB 19-181 into law, initiating a sweeping overhaul of the state’s regulation of the oil and gas industry in the latest move of political activism aimed at oil and gas activities in the state. The new law creates a dangerous precedent...
The essence of your problem is not in Washington, D.C. or in the various state capitals: It is in the local communities in and around which you operate. The local communities are also where the potential solutions to your problem must originate.
That is the lesson America’s oil and gas...
Bakken Shale – North Dakota/Montana Houston-based pipeline operator Targa Resources closed a deal in early April to sell a minority stake in its Bakken-region pipeline operations to New York-based GSO Capital Partners and Blackstone Tactical Opportunities. The purchasers obtained a 45 percent stake in Targa Badlands LLC for $1.6...
