A group of organizations linked to the Texas oil and gas industry aims to end routine natural gas flaring in the state by 2030.
A group of organizations linked to the Texas oil and gas industry on Wednesday reported that they aim to end routine natural gas flaring in the state by 2030.
The announcement from the Texas Methane and Flaring Coalition follows a decision Tuesday by the state’s energy regulator to defer flaring requests from various operating companies.
A Bloomberg article posted to Rigzone deems the stance taken by the Railroad Commission of Texas (RRC) “uncharacteristically critical” of the industry practice.
According to the Texas Independent Producers & Royalty Owners Association's latest state of energy report, the U.S. oil and gas industry employed 902,223 p.
Dominated by Texas, U.S. Oil, Gas Jobs Plummet in 2020, with Output Seen Trending Down in ’21
The U.S. oil and gas industry shed more than 160,000 direct jobs in 2020, with nearly half of those losses coming in Texas amid the fallout of the coronavirus pandemic, an annual assessment of the sector shows.
In its State of Energy Report, the Texas Independent Producers & Royalty Owners Association (TIPRO) said the oil and gas industry employed 902,223 workers last year, down 160,323 from a year earlier. In Texas, the nation’s largest state for energy employment, the industry supported a total of 347,529 direct jobs in 2020, down 73,982 from the previous year.
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President Joseph R. Biden Jr. on Wednesday said that he will not ban hydraulic fracturing in the country, but his environmental agenda still drew scrutiny from the oil and gas sector.
Biden signed a slew of executive orders that prioritized his proposed $2 trillion clean energy initiatives, orders that included a pause on oil and gas leases on federal land.
Briefing reporters during a signing ceremony, however, the president said he was “not going to ban fracking.” Instead, he directed the Interior Department to pause leasing on public lands to “the extent possible” and promised a “rigorous” review of the permitting processes.