
As other major oil companies have invested in renewable energy, the Irving-based producer has stubbornly stayed the course.
Nov 10, 2020 — By Loren Steffy
As other major oil companies have invested in renewable energy, the Irving-based producer has stubbornly stayed the course.
Apr 23, 2020 — By Loren Steffy
Producers, who failed to anticipate how quickly storage would fill up this month, are now scrambling to turn off the taps—at least those who can.
Mar 29, 2020 — By Loren Steffy
You didn’t have to be a fortune teller or an economist to know that unemployment claims were going to spike.
Oct 16, 2019 — By Loren Steffy
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.
Sep 11, 2019 — By Loren Steffy
The Dallas oilman and corporate raider's long, complicated history as an aw-shucks billionaire.
Jun 26, 2019 — By Loren Steffy
’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.
Feb 20, 2019 — By Loren Steffy
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.
Jan 4, 2019 — By Loren Steffy
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.
Jan 3, 2019 — By Loren Steffy
Welcome to the Permian Basin, home of the hottest oil play in the world.
Nov 13, 2018 — By Loren Steffy
The Dallas executive is trying to make sure the 139-year-old company sticks around for another 139 years.
May 29, 2018 — By Loren Steffy
The entrepreneur and financier confronts mortality in the most Texan of ways: by putting his beloved ranch on the market.
Apr 17, 2018 — By Loren Steffy
A recent spate of closures of the iconic restaurant chain has left many communities in the lurch.
Jan 23, 2018 — By Loren Steffy
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.
Dec 8, 2017 — By Loren Steffy
The date is the anniversary of an important court ruling for oil industry employees.
Nov 15, 2017 — By Loren Steffy
Operators need to monitor data from their wells in real time in order to prevent the next Deepwater Horizon, experts say.
Oct 11, 2017 — By Loren Steffy
Recruiting new talent may become more challenging at a time when oil and gas companies need it most.
Sep 20, 2017 — By Loren Steffy
How a wisecracking 95-year-old chemist plans to reenergize the future.
Aug 31, 2017 — By Loren Steffy
Railroad Commissioner Ryan Sitton assures the public: ”There’s plenty of gasoline.”
Aug 28, 2017 — By Loren Steffy
Higher gasoline prices are just another consequence of the storm.
Aug 25, 2017 — By Loren Steffy
How the greatest deal maker in history got outmaneuvered in his bid for Oncor.
Jun 5, 2017 — By Loren Steffy
The night supervisor on the Deepwater Horizon died at his home in Louisiana.
Apr 17, 2017 — By Loren Steffy
And why its $11 million budget is a bargain.
Mar 22, 2017 — By Loren Steffy
How did a small Houston oil company with grand ambitions get caught up in the biggest Ponzi scheme since Bernie Madoff?
Mar 7, 2017 — By Loren Steffy
What's contango? It's a pricing picture that has helped keep your gasoline prices low, and it's almost gone.
Jan 31, 2017 — By Loren Steffy
When OPEC let oil prices plunge, U.S. producers responded by improving fracking technology.
Jan 24, 2017 — By Loren Steffy
With Rex Tillerson and Rick Perry on his team, Donald Trump is all set to revive the fortunes of the Texas energy sector.
Jan 10, 2017 — By Loren Steffy
He’s often described as “diplomatic,” but negotiating business is different than negotiating global relations.
Nov 23, 2016 — By Loren Steffy
How Yeti turned the lowly cooler into a hot commodity—and a white-hot IPO.
Sep 29, 2016 — By Loren Steffy
The worst offshore oil disaster in U.S. history is getting the Hollywood treatment in "Deepwater Horizon," out today.
Sep 21, 2016 — By Loren Steffy
Four years after his indictment, one of the only people prosecuted for the Deepwater Horizon explosion tells his side of the story.
Jul 20, 2016 — By Loren Steffy
Every month, the customers of the state’s smallest energy transmission utility open their bills—and can’t believe what they see.
Jun 22, 2016 — By Loren Steffy
How Aubrey McClendon, “America’s most reckless billionaire,” left some Houston energy firms holding the tab.
Apr 20, 2016 — By Loren Steffy
The rise of Rise, a private air-service start-up.
Feb 24, 2016 — By Loren Steffy
Pretty soon, Round Top won’t look much like Round Top anymore.
Feb 12, 2016 — By Loren Steffy
The iconic Texas burger chain’s oldest franchisee claims grocery store sales are part of plan to make its restaurants obsolete.
Nov 12, 2015 — By Loren Steffy
The real-life adventures of Leland Snow, the Thomas Edison of agricultural aviation.
Oct 21, 2015 — By Loren Steffy
Five years later, Houston is still mourning the loss of Continental Airlines.
Aug 19, 2015 — By Loren Steffy
How the iconic burger chain’s attempt to build a bigger, better company alienated some of the people behind its success.
Jun 12, 2015 — By Loren Steffy
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.
May 7, 2015 — By Loren Steffy
Meet SnapStream, a Google-style search engine for television.
Apr 10, 2015 — By Loren Steffy
The sad and baffling tale of the terrible, horrible, no good, very bad business tax.
Mar 18, 2015 — By Loren Steffy
In an era of drought, tight finances, and a shrinking water park market, how does Schlitterbahn keep getting bigger?
Jan 9, 2015 — By Loren Steffy
Plummeting prices. Industry layoffs. Panicked mergers. Are we about to experience the eighties all over again?
Nov 6, 2014 — By Loren Steffy
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.
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