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Posted on · From TSA agents and Coast Guard personnel, to climate researchers and artists, the lives and work of many Americans are being complicated by the ongoing partial government shutdown.
Posted on · The expansion is in part thanks to increased efficiencies and cost-cutting measures.
Posted on · "The energy industry will recover, prices will recover. Firms are going to have to start thinking about their talent strategy....There is going to be, I think within the next six months to a year, a real competitive war for the best and the brightest in this industry," said Les Csorba.
Posted on · There’s a debate in Texas over the value of oil wells. What’s a well worth, now that the price of oil is less than half what it was two years ago? The answer determines how much property tax will be owed.
Posted on · Drilling for oil and gas may have slowed down in Texas, but there are still millions of barrels of contaminated wastewater that has to be disposed of. The tainted water is what comes back up out of the ground during drilling operations. Public interest groups say regulations are outdated and are putting the environment at risk.
Posted on · The Offshore Technology Conference is underway this week at NRG Center. OTC continues to showcase new technology, despite deep job cuts in the oil and gas industry.
Posted on · The new federal rules for offshore drilling equipment are aimed at preventing future blowouts, following the BP oil spill.
Posted on · The federal government will offer 23.5 million acres off of Texas for oil and gas leases in August.
Posted on · Since the late 1990’s, jobs in factories have been drying up. Nationwide, over five million manufacturing jobs evaporated. Now, some are coming back. And one place that’s happening is just outside Houston. A global company is going to make pipe for the drilling industry (an industry that’s not drilling so much at the moment).
Posted on · While analyzing the industry's downturn, the organizers said they hope innovation will help lower costs and slow down layoffs.
Posted on · Small and midsized energy companies racked up huge debts during the shale boom. A year of cheap oil has left many on the brink of ruin.
Posted on · Just a few years ago, you were hearing a lot about “fracking”, the technique revolutionizing the oil-drilling business. That business has plummeted with the drop in the price of oil. Now, drillers are using everything from electrically-induced shock waves to acid to bring up oil left behind by conventional drilling.
Posted on · On this edition of Houston Matters, we talk with Dave Fehling, Houston Public Media’s State Impact reporter for energy and the environment, about concerns related to what are known as “reserve pits” on drilling sites. These pits are dug on the site of a drilling rig and filled with waste that comes out of oil […]