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. Stephanie Sirt Company name: Emerson Automation Solutions Title: Global Senior Director, EPC Business   What does your company or organization do? Emerson provides equipment and solutions to enable customers to automate and optimize processes. What is the primary function of your role? I develop and drive the strategy across EPC partner customer accounts and manage the...
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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...
SHALE Lifestyle Article May 2019 2
Experience luxury at Hillside Boutique Hotel in Castroville, Texas. Enjoy a modern design, full-service spa, hillside pool, and more.
SHALE Magazine Rural Texas Transitions May 2019
Years ago, Texas was a predominantly rural state. Populations of cities and counties in the late 1800s and early 1900s were much more evenly distributed back then. If we look back to the 1860s, we would note that nearly 60 percent of the U.S. workforce consisted of farmers. In...
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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...
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The San Antonio Pipeliners Association (SAPA) hosted the Midstream Open Golf Tournament which provided a fun day of golf and networking on March 22 at the Hyatt Hill Country Golf Club. Guests were treated to a golf tournament, after-play buffet, cash bar and door prizes.
SHALE Policy Article May 2019 2
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...
SHALE Featured May June 2019 1
For most of the nation’s oil and gas production history, the state of Texas has been the epicenter of activity, providing a far greater share of total US production than any other state. Over the entire decade of the 2000s, Texas crude oil production comprised about 21 percent of...
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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...
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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,...