When his Houston-based company was on the ropes, George Mitchell pushed his engineers to resuscitate a declining North Texas gas field. The solution they came up with transformed the world.
The Dallas oilman and corporate raider's long, complicated history as an aw-shucks billionaire.
’Wall Street Journal’ reporter Russell Gold’s new book, ’Superpower,’ crafts an engaging narrative of one man’s quest to modernize the American energy business.
Michael Dell has transformed the stodgy computer manufacturer that bears his name into a nimble data-management outfit. He’s hoping that's enough to bring the pride of Round Rock back to its former glory.
The Southwest Airlines cofounder was a pioneering entrepreneur who changed the way we travel. He was also a world-class wit, a bon vivant, and a not-so-closet intellectual.
Welcome to the Permian Basin, home of the hottest oil play in the world.
The Dallas executive is trying to make sure the 139-year-old company sticks around for another 139 years.
The entrepreneur and financier confronts mortality in the most Texan of ways: by putting his beloved ranch on the market.
A recent spate of closures of the iconic restaurant chain has left many communities in the lurch.
Launched by two of the biggest names in Texas business, Clear Channel was once the most powerful—and feared—player in radio. Now rebranded as iHeartMedia, it’s on the brink of bankruptcy.
The date is the anniversary of an important court ruling for oil industry employees.
Operators need to monitor data from their wells in real time in order to prevent the next Deepwater Horizon, experts say.
Recruiting new talent may become more challenging at a time when oil and gas companies need it most.
How a wisecracking 95-year-old chemist plans to reenergize the future.
Railroad Commissioner Ryan Sitton assures the public: ”There’s plenty of gasoline.”
Higher gasoline prices are just another consequence of the storm.
How the greatest deal maker in history got outmaneuvered in his bid for Oncor.
The night supervisor on the Deepwater Horizon died at his home in Louisiana.
And why its $11 million budget is a bargain.
How did a small Houston oil company with grand ambitions get caught up in the biggest Ponzi scheme since Bernie Madoff?
What's contango? It's a pricing picture that has helped keep your gasoline prices low, and it's almost gone.
When OPEC let oil prices plunge, U.S. producers responded by improving fracking technology.
With Rex Tillerson and Rick Perry on his team, Donald Trump is all set to revive the fortunes of the Texas energy sector.
He’s often described as “diplomatic,” but negotiating business is different than negotiating global relations.
The worst offshore oil disaster in U.S. history is getting the Hollywood treatment in "Deepwater Horizon," out today.
Four years after his indictment, one of the only people prosecuted for the Deepwater Horizon explosion tells his side of the story.
Every month, the customers of the state’s smallest energy transmission utility open their bills—and can’t believe what they see.
How Aubrey McClendon, “America’s most reckless billionaire,” left some Houston energy firms holding the tab.
The iconic Texas burger chain’s oldest franchisee claims grocery store sales are part of plan to make its restaurants obsolete.
The real-life adventures of Leland Snow, the Thomas Edison of agricultural aviation.
Five years later, Houston is still mourning the loss of Continental Airlines.
How the iconic burger chain’s attempt to build a bigger, better company alienated some of the people behind its success.
For years, Kyle Lagow told his bosses at Countrywide Financial that the company was wreaking havoc on the housing market. But no one listened—until the entire economy came crashing down.
The sad and baffling tale of the terrible, horrible, no good, very bad business tax.
In an era of drought, tight finances, and a shrinking water park market, how does Schlitterbahn keep getting bigger?
Plummeting prices. Industry layoffs. Panicked mergers. Are we about to experience the eighties all over again?
RadioShack was one of Fort Worth’s most prominent corporate citizens. Now it’s poised to be the latest brick-and-mortar victim of Internet commerce.
Did we mention they're in bankruptcy?
The Dallas billionaire has been ordered to pay a $300 million penalty for using offshore trusts to hide hundreds of millions in profits.
How the small East Texas town of Marshall became a personal hell for some of the country’s biggest high-tech companies.
