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Rye Druzin | Houston Chronicle | November 19, 2018 The Wolfcamp shale play has been a key driver of growing oil and gas production in West Texas' booming Permian Basin oil field, according to the Energy Department.

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Sergio Chapa | Houston Chronicle | November 15, 2018 Houston-based Cheniere Energy is expected to export its first shipment of liquefied natural gas from its complex near Corpus Christi Thursday afternoon.

Marissa Luck | Houston Chronicle | November 14, 2018 Houston chemical manufacturer LyondellBasell is making steady progress on more than $3 billion in projects on the Gulf Coast.

Texans For Natural Gas | November 14, 2018 The United States is producing record amounts of natural gas, and we’re quickly becoming one of the world’s largest exporters. But what makes it so important? Here are 7 reasons why natural gas is an essential part of our daily lives.

Rye Druzin | Houston Chronicle | November 14, 2018 A new report says the U.S. will become a net exporter of petroleum by the early 2020s, the first time since the country would achieve such a feat since at least 1949.

Brandon Call | D Magazine | November 13, 2018 The Austin Chalk. The Barnett Shale. The Eagle Ford. These mighty Texas formations are forever cemented into local lore for the fortunes they’ve created. They’re geological playgrounds, where high-stakes games of hide-and-seek regularly occur between eager risk-takers and a precious commodity silently waiting to seep up from below.

Christoper Alessi | Wall Street Journal | November 12, 2018 Relentless American shale development is set to allow the U.S. to leapfrog the world’s other major oil and gas producers, with the potential for the country to account for roughly half of global crude and natural growth by 2025, the International Energy Agency said Tuesday.

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James Conca | Forbes | October 31, 2018 As much as fossil fuel alternatives are increasing, natural gas is increasing more. Gas dominates the American energy scene and will continue to grow faster than all other energy sources in the United States.

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David Marino | Bloomberg | October 31, 2018 The U.S. surpassed Russia in August to claim the title of world’s top oil producer, with the largest year-on-year output increase in its history.

Texans For Natural Gas  Oil and natural gas exports are playing a major role in Texas' thriving economy! Check out these tweetable facts about oil and gas exports in Texas! 

David Beard | The Dominion Post | October 25, 2018 Admiral Michael Rogers – former director of the National Security Agency and commander of the U.S. Cyber Command – closed the two-day Shale Insight Conference by looking a the shale boom from his perch: national security.

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Bojan Pancevski | Wall Street Journal | October 22, 2018 Chancellor calls her decision to open Germany up to U.S. liquefied natural gas a ‘strategic’ move.

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Texans For Natural Gas | October 18, 2018 The Permian Basin is pumping out record amounts of oil and natural gas, and newly released federal data show that methane emissions from America’s largest oilfield are declining.

Texans For Natural Gas | October 16, 2018 The Texas Tribune just published the latest in its misleading series on oil and gas exports in Texas. Unfortunately, it’s more of the same. The article – which has a byline exclusively from the Center for Public Integrity, an activist news outlet – falsely asserts that natural gas “isn’t so great for the climate,” and provides little to no evidence to support that claim. Yet the article proceeds from that claim as if it were an indisputable fact.

Texans For Natural Gas | October 16, 2018 From 2006 to 2016, Texas families and business saved a total of $60 billion from low-cost natural gas, a new report from the Consumer Energy Alliance (CEA) finds. Titled, Oil and Natural Gas Light the Way for Texans, the report quantifies the household savings thanks to increased oil and gas production over the past decade.

Rye Druzin | Houston Chronicle | October 1, 2018 The oil and gas industries of Texas and Louisiana continued to stay at near-record levels of activity during the third quarter.

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Texans For Natural Gas | October 11, 2018 Fact check: Sensational, misleading media story that claims Permian Basin energy development is “threatening the planet” is chock full of inaccuracies, features debunked activist claims, and was co-authored by an organization funded by “Keep It In the Ground” supporters. Energy development is unquestionably good for Texas. It provides jobs, billions of dollars in tax revenue, and it makes the United States more energy secure. The United States is now the world’s largest producer of oil, thanks in large part to places like the Permian Basin and the Eagle Ford Shale. As the largest natural gas producer in the country, Texas is also playing a key role in reducing air pollution: the United States leads the world in reducing carbon dioxide emissions, and that’s primarily due to the increased use of clean-burning natural gas.

Rye Druzin | Chron | October 9, 2018 U.S. crude oil exports are expected to hit nearly 4 million barrels a day by 2020. The export volumes are expected to rise to 2.2 million barrels a day in 2019 and hit 3.9 million barrels a day by 2020, according to a new report by research firm S&P Global Platts.

Texans for Natural Gas | October 8, 2018 A new report from the Washington D.C.-based Environmental Integrity Project (EIP) grossly misrepresented emissions from petrochemical facilities along the Gulf Coast, according to an analysis of state and national emissions data by Texans for Natural Gas. The data show that EIP overstated emissions by tens of millions of tons of carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2e), chiefly by relying on permitted levels of emissions rather than the actual levels.