Texas

Eight of North America’s oil and gas producers filed for bankruptcy during the first three months of this year, the highest quarterly total since 2016, according to Haynes and Boone LLC. The law firm, which has monitored North American producer Chapter 11 filings since 2015, on Thursday issued its latest report covering 1Q2021. It also…

Texas operators applied for more oil and gas drilling permits during March than a year earlier, with the Permian Basin still the go-to place for activity, according to state regulators.  The Railroad Commission of Texas (RRC) said it issued 798 original drilling permits last month, versus 744 in March 2020.  Last month, the RRC issued…

The February freeze that crippled the Texas energy grid for days amplified a trend already well underway — high-cost and increasingly frequent climate-related disasters that the electric power industry struggles to manage through. That assessment comes in a new report from energy lender CoBank, based in Denver. The polar outbreak affected several states, requiring rolling…

The impacts of a Winter Storm Uri, which wreaked havoc on the Texas energy system in mid-February, are lingering nearly two months later as downstream facilities await freeze-related repairs. “From a natural disaster perspective, the impact on the petrochemical space from Uri is much greater than any previous event that we’ve had in recent memory,”…

A little more than a month after Texas’ main electric grid operator failed to keep the lights on during a prolonged freeze across the state, it said it has more than enough resources to meet projected record demand this summer. In its preliminary Seasonal Assessment of Resource Adequacy (SARA) for the summer released Thursday, the…

Mexico natural gas prices rose to an astonishing average of $21.37/MMBtu in February, up from $3.39/MMBtu in January, following freezing weather in Texas, according to the latest IPGN monthly natural gas price index published by the Comisión Reguladora de Energía (CRE). The February price, up from the February 2020 average of $2.71/MMBtu, was the highest…

Operational disruptions from freezing weather in February, as well as softer-than-expected customer orders are set to weigh on first quarter results, NOV Inc. said Tuesday. The Houston-based oilfield technology giant said severe weather during February knocked out operations in Oklahoma and Texas, two of its biggest operating regions. In addition, there has been an underwhelming…

Houston-based retail electricity provider (REP) Griddy Energy LLC has filed for Chapter 11 protection in the wake of February’s Winter Storm Uri, which caused power outages along with skyrocketing electricity and natural gas prices. A proposed reorganization would provide relief to Griddy customers unable to pay their electric bills as a result of scarcity pricing…

A federal appeals court ruled Wednesday that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) did not violate the Endangered Species Act (ESA) in determining that a pipeline that would feed the Rio Grande liquefied natural gas (LNG) project will not significantly harm wild cats in South Texas. USFWS issued a biological opinion (BO) and incidental…