As the summer heat starts to taper off, it’s the perfect time to start thinking about fall camping getaways. Whether you enjoy hitching up an Airstream trailer or roughing it in a tent, there are plenty of places in Texas to enjoy sitting around a campfire in the shadows of some incredible geological formations. Here […]
9 Fast Facts About the Permian Basin
The Permian Basin is a vast area covering West Texas and Southeastern New Mexico that has been known for decades as a region dripping with oil and gas reserves. Today, the Basin continues to produce, even as companies in other major shale regions fold under the pressures of low oil & gas prices. Here are […]
What the Oil Downturn Means for South Texas
Eagle Ford Shale Production The Eagle Ford Shale runs across a large swath of counties in South Texas, stretching in a check-mark shape from just north of Laredo in the west to just north of Houston in the east. The most active counties for production along the Eagle Ford are McCullen, Maverick, Dimmit, La Salle, […]
Shale Drilling in Texas
Concern for climate change has made the world take a look at our dependence on oil and the fragile relationship we have with the environment. The increases in greenhouses gases and carbon emissions have forced government, environmentalists and energy companies to search for alternatives that allow them to meet energy demands while trying to limit […]