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December 8, 2017
Why Offshore Oil Workers Should Reflect on December 10
The date is the anniversary of an important court ruling for oil industry employees.
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Business
January 21, 2013
U.S. Government to BP: No New Contracts, For Now
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is temporarily suspending the British oil giant's ability to receive contracts from the federal government.
Energy
January 20, 2013
That’s Oil, Folks!
Forget the Outer Continental Shelf. There’s a good old-fashioned boom happening in Midland, thanks to a crafty drilling technique that unlocked the secret reserves of the Permian Basin and revived the late, great West Texas oilman.
Politics & Policy
January 20, 2013
Oil and Water
The spill in the Gulf is just the latest in a string of catastrophic regulatory failures that prove how incompetent government is. And how important it is.
Energy
January 20, 2013
Spills and Bills
The BP oil spill hit the small world of Houston’s oil and gas business hard. So now that the well is plugged, who’s up and who’s down?
Web Exclusive
January 20, 2013
The Usual Suspects
Brent Coon’s back to take on BP.
Energy
January 20, 2013
Eva vs. Goliath
After James and Linda Rowe were killed in a grisly refinery explosion in Texas City in 2005, their wild-child daughter could have taken a modest settlement and started to rebuild her life in a small Louisiana border town. Instead, she chose to fight—and brought a multibillion-dollar oil company to its
Business
August 17, 2012
Downtown Austin’s Construction Boom
The New York Times took note of the dozens of hotel, retail, office, and residential projects underway in downtown Austin.
Business
February 24, 2012
Texas Business Report: BP Gets in the Wind Game
BP has invested more than $1 billion in wind energy in Texas, Dell's stocks take a dip, and every minute spent waiting in line at the border costs companies $116 million.
Politics & Policy
June 20, 2010
Talking Points Memo: Barton under more fire from R’s
Linking to a story from The Hill, The Web site TPM.com says that “an increasing number of Republicans” are calling on Joe Barton to resign as ranking member of the committee that oversees energy (among several other critical regulatory responsibilities.) Majority leader Mitch McConnell added, “I couldn’t disagree with Joe
Politics & Policy
June 15, 2010
Another BP victim
From the Oil Drum blog: The P&J Oyster Company, the oldest oyster processor and distributor in New Orleans, has stopped shucking oysters because of the oil spill.
Politics & Policy
June 3, 2010
Can the oil spill threaten Texas?
I spent a day with Texas A&M oceanographers in late May, and here was their assessment: Around early June, currents in the northwestern Gulf of Mexico tend shift so that they run northward toward the shore and eastward toward the Mississippi delta. This pattern will probably last for the rest
Politics & Policy
June 3, 2010
PR according to BP
First, CEO Tony Hayward says he wants his life back from the oil spill. (We’d like our ocean back.) Then Randy Prescott of BP Houston observes, “Louisiana isn’t the only place that has shrimp.” Prescott’s name and phone number have been spread over the Internet. Then BP decides to hire
Politics & Policy
May 4, 2010
Is the BP disaster an act of God?
That was a weird comment for the governor to make. He can’t possibly substantiate his statement. Is he so anti-litigation that he is trying to protect the perpetrators? In any event, Black’s Law Dictionary defines an act of God as “An act occasioned exclusively by violence of nature without the