Energy
April 24, 2017
ExxonMobil and SABIC Choose San Patricio County for $9.3 Billion Petrochemical Plant
Site selected over objections from some local residents.
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Politics & Policy
April 5, 2017
Rick Perry is Now on The National Security Council
He’s rebounded quite well since his losing effort on ’Dancing With The Stars.’
Energy
March 7, 2017
Here’s The Reason Your Pump Prices Might Rise
What's contango? It's a pricing picture that has helped keep your gasoline prices low, and it's almost gone.
Energy
July 31, 2011
A Mighty Wind
The unlikely story of how a handful of dreamers, schemers, and (all too often) failures made oil-and-gas-rich Texas the leading wind power state in the country.
Energy
November 1, 1988
How Houston Beat the Bust (Sort Of)
This story is from Texas Monthly’s archives. We have left it as it was originally published, without updating, to maintain a clear historical record. Read more here about our archive digitization project. Once Texans thought the boom would never end. Then they thought the bust
Business
November 1, 1988
How Houston Beat the Bust: Branching Out
An entrepreneur captures customers in public rest rooms. A high-tech plant moves from oil to medicine. Space and biomedical manufacturing are finally off the drawing boards. And a former union boss becomes a bingo mogul.
Energy
May 1, 1988
No Wonderland
Once an oil-field service boomtown, Alice doesn’t live well anymore.
Business
December 1, 1986
Making It in the Bust
At a time when Texas seems to have lost its gift for creating fortunes, there has emerged a group of entrepreneurs who are making money by catering to the needs of people who are going broke.
Politics & Policy
August 1, 1986
Mack Wallace, Railroad Commissioner, Wants to Save the World
Tapped by destiny, one man in Austin is forging an unlikely alliance between Texas oilmen and the friends of Israel.
Business
April 1, 1985
Why Boone Can’t Lose
An old hand at Pickens-watching reveals the key to the Amarillo oilman’s corporate-takeover antics.
Energy
July 1, 1980
Profits? What Profits?
Reading Big Oil’s annual reports for the truth about profits is a little like drilling for oil in the Baltimore Canyon: you know it’s there, but how deep will you have to go to find it?
Energy
October 1, 1978
Working the Rigs
Show us the hardest working man in Texas and we’ll show you a roughneck.