The EPA recently announced it will not designate the Permian Basin as a non-attainment area due to ozone levels.

EL PASO (UrduPoint News / Sputnik - 06th January, 2023) Frequent and intensified earthquake activity in West Texas over the last several months may be linked to fracking-related activity, experts told Sputnik.

With water scarcity a growing challenge for consumers around the country, industries of all kinds are working to ease the burdens they put on supplies. Soon, in Texas, that could include some of the most notorious water consumers of all.

A boil water notice for the City of Midland's water system was issued on Jan 5. While not related directly to oilfield, it increases public attention on water issues in the biggest oilfield in the world.

Negrin will take over a DEP that is charged with regulating the oil and gas industry, and has drawn fire from both sides in the past due to actions it has taken including the approval of Pennsylvania’s membership in the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative.

As it turned out, the injection wells themselves were not to blame, but a salvage yard located at the same facility was the source.

Once again, oil price watchers are looking at U.S. Federal Reserve decisions rather than supply-demand balances, with the community eagerly anticipating Thursday’s inflation data to gauge the extent of upcoming interest rate hikes. The main bullish factor of the past weeks, namely China’s widely expected return to oil markets, is still yet to boost oil prices as trust in Chinese consumption growth remains tepid.

Barclays: slowdown in global manufacturing activity could lead to increased downside for crude prices.

Weakened U.S. and global economies, and higher production, will lead to a 10.6% cut for WTI and 9.8% reduction for Henry Hub natural gas this year, according to the Energy Information Administration.

Targa Resources Corp. has agreed to purchase Blackstone Energy Partners’ 25% interest in Targa’s Grand Prix natural gas liquids (NGL) pipeline for $1.05 billion in cash plus customary working capital adjustments.

New year, new deals for $19 billion private equity shop Quantum Energy Partners and CEO Wil VanLoh.

UTEP research partnering with Aris have some interesting findings.

“This is the first slurry injection facility, able to take all liquid oilfield waste, not just water,” explained Gabriel Rio, Milestone president and chief executive officer. It will also manage associated solid waste.

Kansas water experts are sounding an alarm decades in the making: Farmers and ranchers in the state’s western half must stop pumping more water out of a vast aquifer than nature puts back each year or risk the economic collapse of a region important to the U.S. food supply.

The Haynesville basin in Louisiana and Texas is humming with drillers. Among them is Chesapeake, a fracking pioneer that was in bankruptcy just two years ago.

2022 was a record-breaking year for natural gas production in the United States, with the Appalachian Basin remaining the “undisputed king of U.S. natural gas production.”

Those who watch FERC and its commissioners say Phillips is not nearly as caustic and confrontational as Glick was–that he is more of a consensus builder.

Pittsburgh-based EQT Corp. may be the largest U.S. natural gas producer, but a commitment to reducing carbon emissions led management to spend $28 million to replace or retrofit 100% of its gas-powered pneumatic devices.

After three November earthquakes were linked to a fracking operation in northeastern B.C., one scientist asks, is the region a 'loaded bullet' waiting to go off?