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Moving Crude Relies on Aging Pipeline System
When Jed Clampett was “shootin’ at some food and up through the ground came a bubblin’ crude,” TV viewers might have thought it was funny. But as it turns out, some of crude oil pipelines in use today...
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Houston Oil Professor Really, Really Likes $500 Pens and Fogo De Chao
The occasionally close ties between academia and the oil and gas industry have come under greater scrutiny as of late, particularly after it was discovered that a University of Texas professor who led...
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Gulf Coast Glut: Domestic Crude Oil ‘Cascading’ to Refineries
Listen to the story‘It’s a remarkably positive surprise’Download Dave Fehling/StateImpactCrude oil from South Texas is loaded into tank cars bound for refineries on the Gulf Coast So much crude oil is...
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Will Texas Taxes Pay for Damaged Counties in Eagle Ford?
Listen to the story‘We’re left with untold damages’Download Dave Fehling/StateImpactPoster at DUG Eagle Ford convention in San Antonio Hearing some officials talk about the oil boom in South Texas,...
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State Regulators Stuck Using Outdated Computers as Drilling Surges
Listen to the story‘It’s the biggest problem we have at the Railroad Commission’Download Dave Fehling/StateImpact TexasThousands of new drilling sites mean a surge in record keeping for the state's...
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Why the Legislature May Target Drillers’ Overweight Trucks
Listen to our storyHow Much Should Trucks Pay?Download TxDOTTruck hauling tanks in Midland/Odessa hits and damages overpass Looking for ways to pay to rebuild roads damaged by thousands of trucks...
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How ‘Landfarms’ For Disposing Drilling Waste Are Causing Problems In Texas
Listen to the storyQuestions over effectiveness of state regulation raised by criminal caseDownload Dave Fehling/StateImpactWildlife officer Jim Yetter led a criminal investigation of a site in...
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How a Domestic Drilling Boom Could Lead to a Global Climate Bust
Photo by Mario Tama/Getty ImagesSnow falls on flowers in the East Village neighborhood of Manhattan on October 29, 2011 in New York City. In the past 135 years there have been just three days of...
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BP Will Pay Record $4.5 Billion Settlement Over Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill
Photo by U.S. Coast Guard via Getty ImagesFire boat response crews battle the blazing remnants of the off shore oil rig Deepwater Horizon in the Gulf of Mexico on April 21, 2010 near New Orleans,...
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Why Midland is the Second-Richest City in the Country
MIRA OBERMAN/AFP/Getty ImagesOil workers on a rig in Midland County,Texas. Yes, Midland is the second-weatlhiest metro area in the country (measuring personal income per capita in 2011), according to...
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How Much Oil is Texas Producing? (Plenty.)
Photo by the Texas Energy Museum/NewsmakersA drilling crew takes a break atop Spindletop Hill in Beaumont, Texas where the first Texas oil gusher was discovered January 10, 1901. Texas is seeing an oil...
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Drilling Boom Spurs $1.5 Billion Investment in Gulf Coast Pipeline Factory
Screen Shot by Mose BucheleGermán Curá, President of Tenaris North America, watched by Texas Gov. Rick Perry as he gives details on the new pipeline facility. In response to the boom in oil and gas...
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Fraud in the Oil Fields: A Boom in Theft Costs Texas Industry Millions
Listen to the Radio Story‘We have thieves coming in here from all over…’Download Dave Fehling / StateImpactConvoy of Halliburton trucks on Interstate 10 If you drive west from Houston out Interstate...
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Why Gulf Coast Refineries Started 2013 With Less Oil
Graph by Energy Information Administration (EIA)A new federal analysis shows that oil inventories at Gulf Coast refineries typically decline in December, as companies have to pay their taxes. Despite a...
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NRDC: Drilling Leases Now Cover More Land Than California and Florida Combined
Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty ImagesA truck with the natural gas industry, one of thousands that pass through the area daily, drives through the countryside to a hydraulic fracturing site on January 18,...
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Selling Texas as Oil Boom States Vie for Business
Getty ImagesGovernor RIck Perry: 'Check out Texas' In a radio ad, Texas Governor Rick Perry disses California as a place where it’s “next to impossible” to build a business. “Come check out Texas,”...
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Lawmakers Propose Fixes For Roads Damaged By Drilling
Photo by Filipa Rodrigues/KUT NewsAt a panel of lawmakers Tuesday evening, legislators offered different takes on how to fix roads damaged by drilling trucks. But they all agreed something needs to be...
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New Research Says Gas Boom Still Has a Few Decades In It
Graphic courtesy of UT Austin/Jackson School of GeosciencesA map from the research shows the most (red) and least (blue) productive areas of the Barnett Shale drilling area near Dallas-Fort Worth. A...
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Higher Penalties for Oil and Gas Industry Have Bipartisan Support in Legislature
Photo Courtesy of The Texas TribuneRep. Gene Wu, D-Houston introduced HB 1863 to increase maxmim penalties from the Railroad Commission. Freshman State Representative Gene Wu, D-Houston, introduced a...
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Fracking Goes to the Texas Legislature
Photo by Mose BucheleTexas is not known for robust state regulation of industry, but some lawmakers are filing bills to address the current oil and gas boom. In some northeastern states like New York...
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