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Texans for Natural Gas | March 2, 2018 U.S. oil production in November 2017 surpassed the all-time record of 10.044 million barrels per day (b/d) set in 1970, according to the latest data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA). EIA previously stated that production last November reached 10.038 million b/d – the first time production broke 10 million b/d since 1970 – but has now revised the numbers to 10.058 million b/d, an official record.

Energy In Depth | February 26, 2018 A new analysis by researchers from Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) finds that the United States has already met the Clean Power Plan’s (CPP) 2025 carbon emission reduction targets “primarily due to natural gas prices and market forces,” according to co-author and CMU professor Paul Fischbeck.

Jessica Summers | Houston Chronicle | February 28, 2018 U.S. oil production reached a record high in November as the shale boom puts the nation among the world's biggest suppliers and upends global markets.

Georgia Wells, Timothy Puko | Wall Street Journal | March 1, 2018 A Russian-backed propaganda group used social media in an attempt to disrupt the U.S. energy industry and influence energy policy, according to a new congressional staff report reviewed by The Wall Street Journal.

Katherine Blunt | Houston Chronicle | February 14, 2018 The U.S. is soon expected to become a dominant player in the global market for liquefied natural gas as Gulf Coast companies build massive terminals to serve overseas markets and the federal government considers looser regulations for small-scale exports closer to home.

A new report from the Texas Oil & Gas Association (TXOGA) finds that oil and natural gas operators in Texas paid roughly $30 million per day in state and local taxes and royalties during the 2017 fiscal year. All told, oil and gas contributed $11 billion in revenue to the state and local governments – an increase of 17 percent from 2016 – thanks to record oil and gas production.  

Osamu Tsukimori | Reuters | February 26, 2018 TOKYO (Reuters) - The United States will overtake Russia as the world’s biggest oil producer by 2019 at the latest, the International Energy Agency (IEA) said on Tuesday, as the country’s shale oil boom continues to upend global markets.

Mark J. Perry | American Enterprise Institute | February 9, 2018 There are only five countries in the world that produced more crude oil in October 2017 (most recent month available for EIA international oil production statistics) than the state of Texas (data here): Russia, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Iran, and Canada. Therefore, if Texas was considered as a separate nation, it would be the world’s sixth-largest oil producer.

Valerie Volcovici | Reuters | February 12, 2018 WASHINGTON - The Trump administration’s infrastructure proposal released on Monday would speed up the permitting of U.S. natural gas pipelines, including by cutting Congress out of the process for allowing them to cross national parks.

Oil & Gas Investor | February 12, 2018 Texas oil and gas producers received 1,166 drilling permits last month, a 21% increase over year-ago levels, the state energy regulator said Feb. 9, after filings surged on the back of higher crude prices.

Reuters | February 6, 2018 NEW YORK - U.S. oil production is expected to surpass 11 million barrels per day in late 2018, a year earlier than projected last month, the U.S. Energy Information Administration said on Tuesday.

Methane emissions from venting and flaring during petroleum production declined by 40 percent between 2015 and 2016, according to a new draft report from the. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) released its Annual Energy Outlook 2018 today, forecasting significant growth in U.S. oil and natural gas production driven by shale development. In fact, shale development has increased production so substantially that the agency predicts the United States to be a net energy exporter by 2022 – four years earlier than forecast in EIA’s previous Annual Energy Outlook.  

A new report from the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) found that hydraulically fractured horizontal wells accounted for 69 percent of new oil and gas wells drilled in 2016, up from less than 20 percent in 2008. The report comes as the United States is reaching production and export milestones unseen in decades: crude oil production recently surpassed 10 million barrels per day (b/d) – a 47 year high – while 2017 was the first year since 1957 that the United States was a net natural gas exporter.

Alison Sider & Lynn Cook | Wall Street Journal | January 31, 2018 U.S. oil production surpassed 10 million barrels a day in November for the first time in nearly 50 years, a milestone that underscores the growing dominance of the U.S. oil industry.

President Trump will give his first State of the Union address on January 30th at 8pm CST. Here are the top five things that you should know before the big speech.

Methane emissions are declining in several of Texas’ largest oil and natural gas producing counties, according to a new analysis by Texans for Natural Gas. The analysis is based on data from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program (GHGRP) between the years 2011 and 2016.

Ben Geman | Axios | January 19, 2018 The International Energy Agency predicted Friday that the U.S. will surpass Saudi Arabia in crude output this year and will challenge Russia as the world's top producer on the back of "explosive" growth in shale production.

Sam Meredith | CNBC | January 19, 2018 "This year promises to be a record-setting one for the U.S.," the IEA said in its closely-watched report published Friday The latest monthly report from the IEA comes at a time when crude futures have climbed to highs not seen since the early days of a slump in December 2014 One of the main beneficiaries of OPEC-led production cuts is the producers' major competitor, U.S. shale oil. U.S. oil producers are staging a dramatic comeback amid a recovering oil price that has allowed many of them to restart operations.

Laurie Joseph & Jeff Mosier | Dallas News | January 16, 2018 There were concerns that the nation's new role as a natural gas exporter (much of that to Mexico) would cause price spikes.

Liz Hampton | Reuters | January 16, 2018 HOUSTON (Reuters) - Surging shale production is poised to push U.S. oil output to more than 10 million barrels per day - toppling a record set in 1970 and crossing a threshold few could have imagined even a decade ago.

Oil & Gas Investor | January 11, 2018 The Trump administration’s proposal to open up almost all of U.S. offshore waters to oil and gas drilling could unlock up to 65 billion barrels of oil equivalent (Bboe), attracting billions of dollars in investment, consultancy Rystad Energy said on Jan. 10.

Tom DiChristopher | CNBC | January 9, 2018 U.S. oil production will average 10.8 million barrels a day in 2019, according to the Energy Information Administration, a level that will rival top producers Saudi Arabia and Russia. EIA sees America's output at 10.3 million barrels a day this year, the highest annual average on record. EIA forecasts U.S. crude prices will average $52.77 this year, well below the current price near $63 a barrel.

Naureen S. Malik | Bloomberg Markets | January 10, 2018 America’s trade imbalance just got a wee bit smaller. The U.S. has now become a net exporter of natural gas on an annual basis for the first time since at least 1957.

Department of the Interior | January 4, 2018 WASHINGTON – U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke today announced the next step for responsibly developing the National Outer Continental Shelf Oil and Gas Leasing Program (National OCS Program) for 2019-2024, which proposes to make over 90 percent of the total OCS acreage and more than 98 percent of undiscovered, technically recoverable oil and gas resources in federal offshore areas available to consider for future exploration and development. By comparison, the current program puts 94 percent of the OCS off limits. In addition, the program proposes the largest number of lease sales in U.S. history.