Rig count and frac count were exceptionally resilient through year end, with little to no holiday slowdown apparent in our market research ("little" meaning a slowdown in completions rate, not crews standing down off pads).

The state’s oil and gas division says 400 barrels of produced water spilled 7 miles north of Tioga on Sunday. The cause of the spill was due to freezing temperatures, which caused a pump to leak.

Bakken oil producers flush away more brine water each day than they pump oil from the ground. But a Williston-based company is pitching the salty waste stream as an untapped resource that could feed an emerging market for battery technology.

Oil drillers in the biggest U.S. fields are shouldering record costs at the same time that some banks are increasingly reluctant to loan money to the sector, according to the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas.

The restructuring positions Abraxas as an unlevered, Delaware Basin pure play that can now access available capital sources to restart a drilling program in the Permian Basin.

Energy prices rose an average of 59 percent last year, the most of any commodity, as the economic recovery from the global pandemic boosted demand for crude and petroleum products.

Sarah Stogner writes on LinkedIn: "The Railroad Commission of Texas is telling this rancher that they won’t help with this water well blowout. It was totally fine a few days ago. They just finished plugging out a lease across the street. They’re also fracking nearby. And there are SWD wells nearby. Coincidence? Of course not." Video in full post...

The divergence in production post frac hit can be clearly seen, resulting in an average per well loss of 20,500 bbl of oil and 245,000 Mcf of gas 6 months following the frac hit. All wells showed a significant increase in water production directly after the frac hit...

Drivers abandoning their posts in the weeks around Christmas and New Years is as regular as clockwork! That said, this year appears to be worse than normal due to a perfect storm of variables that compounded the typical strain from drivers checking out around the holidays.

U.S. flotilla endeavoring to deliver much-needed fuel to Europe.

The Dallas Federal Reserve Bank published results of a new poll this week showing that almost half of 131 oil and gas firms surveyed plan to increase oil and gas production during 2022.

Protecting Texas’ vulnerable groundwater supplies raises a challenging dilemma: How can you motivate people to stand up for an underground resource they cannot see?

Cavitation's efforts with their partner in the Permian Basin are providing a unique solution to cleaning and recycling produced water in the oil and gas industry....

he West Virginia Dept. of Environmental Protection (WV DEP) issued a key permit for the Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP) to finish work crossing rivers and streams in the Mountain State.

The U.S. electric power sector’s cooling water withdrawals fell 10.5% from 53.1 trillion gallons in 2019 to 47.5 trillion gallons in 2020, continuing the downward trend in withdrawals. The decline has been driven by the increased use of renewable and natural gas-fired generation in place of coal-fired generation, as well as less use of once-through cooling technologies.