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Texas natural gas production fell by almost half during storm
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“These extreme weather conditions impacted every aspect of the Texas energy supply chain,” said Todd Staples, president of the Texas Oil and Gas Association.Eli Hartman, MBI / Associated Press
Natural gas production in Texas fell by almost half during last week’s winter storm as power outages, bitter cold and ice knocked out wells, processing facilities and pipelines, according to a federal report.
In Texas, the nation’s largest natural gas producing state, production declined by about 45 percent to 11.8 billion cubic feet per day on Feb. 17, down from 21.3 billion cubic feet per day during the week before the winter storm, according to consulting firm IHS Markit.
Winter storm halts rig count recovery
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“These extreme weather conditions impacted every aspect of the Texas energy supply chain,” said Todd Staples, president of the Texas Oil and Gas Association.Eli Hartman, MBI / Associated Press
One drilling rig was put into operation in the Permian this week as the arctic blast halted oil and gas operations.
The U.S. rig count held steady this week at 397 as the industry lost one rig in the Gulf of Mexico, according to oil-field services company Baker Hughes and research firm Enverus, which provide the weekly tally.
The rig count, a leading indicator of the nation’s oil and gas production, had been recovering over the past three months from the pandemic. Then the the winter storm knocked out power to oil wells and iced over equipment, forcing producers to pause drilling and production.
Perfect storm: Energy supply chain slashed by extreme weather
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“These extreme weather conditions impacted every aspect of the Texas energy supply chain,” said Todd Staples, president of the Texas Oil and Gas Association.Eli Hartman, MBI / Associated Press
Texas natural gas producers struggled to keep up with record demand during the historic winter storm that wreaked havoc on the state’s electricity grid and plunged millions of residents into frigid darkness.
The companies were challenged by power outages to oil and gas operations, freezing temperatures that immobilized and damaged equipment, and hazardous road conditions that hampered access to well sites. These factors caused the state’s crude production to fall by an estimated 2 million barrels per day and natural gas production to plummet by as much as 7 billion cubic feet per day, according to Bloomberg Intelligence and S&P Global Platts. The losses deprived Texas power plants of the natural gas n
Opinion: Florist charged for participating in Capitol riot should be denied trip to Mexico
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Jenny Cudd, left, a flower shop owner and former Midland mayoral candidate, leaves the federal courthouse in Midland, Texas, Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2021. The FBI arrested Cudd and Eliel Rosa on Wednesday in connection with the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S Capitol. (Jacob Ford/Odessa American via AP)Jacob Ford, MBI / Associated Press
A trip to Mexico? Really?
Regarding “Senate agrees to hear case against Trump,” (A1, Feb. 10): Jenny Cudd, a Midland florist, asked a federal court not to inconvenience her by preventing her from taking a weekend trip to Mexico. Cudd is a white woman initially charged with “misdemeanor counts of entering and remaining on restricted grounds and disorderly conduct or violent entry” during the Jan. 6 attacks on the Capitol. She has been released without bond. Violently breaching the Capitol is just a misdemeanor; similar to a minor traff