West Texas-Gulf Coast Crude Line Proceeds

Oil & Gas Journal | April 25, 2018

HOUSTON - Phillips 66 Partners will build the Gray Oak Pipeline to carry crude oil from the Permian Basin to the Texas Gulf Coast and hold a second open season to gauge interest in a system expansion (OGJ Online, Dec. 13, 2017).

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U.S. Crude Exports Are Soaring With Texas In The Driver’s Seat

Texans for Natural Gas | April 26, 2018

Exports of crude oil from the United States hit a record 2.33 million barrels per day (b/d) for the week ending April 20, according to new data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA). Crude exports are up 1.18 million b/d from the same week last year.

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More Pipelines Needed To Meet Environmental Goals

Chris Tomlinson | Houston Chronicle | April 25, 2018

A provincial premier in British Columbia, a 61-year-old woman in a Virginia treehouse and farmers in central Nebraska are fighting to stop pipelines from passing through their backyards, failing to realize they are doing more harm to the environment than good.

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Permian Basin Is Growing Into the Largest Oil Patch in the World

Jessica Summers & Sheela Tobben | Bloomberg Markets | April 24, 2018

The Permian shale play is all about setting records. Now, the region will probably become the world’s largest oil patch over the next decade.

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The U.S. Is A Net Natural Gas Exporter – Here's Why This Is A Big Deal

Energy Factor by ExxonMobil | April 12, 2018

Recent data compiled by the U.S. Energy Information Administration shows that last year the U.S. exported more natural gas than it imported. This is a significant milestone because the last time this happened, in 1957, Dwight Eisenhower was in the White House, cars had big tail fins, and the brand-new Frisbee was all the rage.

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ICF study for LNG Allies projects potential US economic, jobs growth

Nick Snow | Oil & Gas Journal | April 17, 2018

The cumulative contribution to US economic growth from the addition of more LNG plants will range from $716 billion to $1.267 trillion between 2013 and 2050 under three cases, an ICF Inc. study commissioned by LNG Allies projected. It also projected 2-3.9 million job-years from US LNG plants during that period. One job for 1 year is a job-year.

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Big Oil’s New Favorite Toy: Supercomputers

Sarah Kent and Christopher Matthews | Wall Street Journal | April 10, 2018

Xukai Shen, a geophysicist working at BP BP 0.65% Plc, had a hunch he could solve a riddle that had vexed the company: whether there was a lot of oil hidden beneath a salt dome 7,000 feet underwater in the Gulf of Mexico. So he asked to use the company’s supercomputer exclusively for two weeks to check it out.

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Report: Texas Oil Output Grew by More Than All Other States, Gulf of Mexico Combined

Texans for Natural Gas | April 11, 2018

Texas’ average annual oil production increased by more than all other states and the Gulf of Mexico combined in 2017, a new report from the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) finds.

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