Economics/Statistics
News
July 18, 2025
Citing the latest report from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), the Texas Independent Producers and Royalty Owners Association (TIPRO) indicated a decrease in upstream employment in Texas in June following two months of consecutive job growth.
News
July 17, 2025
Chevron is cutting drill rigs and frac crews in the Permian basin as it approaches its long-term target of producing 1 million boed in the region. “We’re going from growth to cash generation," said Bruce Niemeyer, who heads up Chevron's shale business.
News
July 11, 2025
bp Plc said it expects to report rising production and a strong result from its oil trading business for the second quarter, offering a boost for the energy major struggling to reverse years of underperformance.
News
July 09, 2025
Chevron is reducing local and regional business units in favor of a more centralized model to improve performance and cut as much as $3 billion of costs by 2026. Changes will include single divisions for both offshore and shale operations, says Vice Chairman Mark Nelson.
News
July 09, 2025
Kuwait Petroleum Corp., Kuwait’s state oil company, said OPEC+’s latest super-sized supply hike and recent interactions with customers suggest persistent demand growth beyond the summer driving season.
News
July 08, 2025
The Energy Workforce & Technology Council (EWTC) has formally called on Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum to address long-standing and growing non-payments by PEMEX to critical oilfield service providers. EWTC emphasized that service disruptions could begin if the situation remains unresolved.
News
July 07, 2025
Oil prices reduced earnings by about $1 billion while gas contributed another $500 million hit when compared to the first quarter, ExxonMobil in a statement Monday, noting that a volatile quarter for commodity prices has weighed on second-quarter profits.
News
July 03, 2025
The Energy Workforce & Technology Council (EWTC) on Thursday released its June 2025 jobs report, reflecting a modest dip in employment within the energy services sector amid continued economic uncertainty.
News
June 27, 2025
The Energy Workforce & Technology Council (EWTC) has released a statement praising the Trump Administration’s announcement of a historic offshore lease sale in the Gulf of America/Gulf of Mexico, slated to offer nearly 80 million acres for oil and gas development.
News
June 27, 2025
Colombian businesses are bracing for a deepening shortfall in natural gas supply that threatens to shutter some operations. Supplies of gas are expected to fall at least 10% short of demand next year, and possibly as high as 20%.
News
June 25, 2025
Enverus has released its annual list of the most prolific 100 private oil and gas producers in the U.S. based on gross operated production, well count and rig movements across last year. Continental Resources remains in the top position, with Mewbourne Oil and Aethon Energy taking second and third place, according to Enverus.
Article
June 2025
Op-Ed: Rigs and equipment matter, but it’s the people who make those operations happen. Now is not the time to pull back—the industry must double down on training, leadership development, and workforce readiness.
News
June 24, 2025
Trump administration officials considered a range of options in case of a major oil supply disruption in the Middle East ahead of the U.S. strikes on Iran and President Donald Trump’s ceasefire declaration, according to people familiar with the matter.
News
June 20, 2025
According to TIPRO’s analysis, direct Texas upstream employment for May totaled 208,200, an increase of 2,200 industry positions from April employment numbers, subject to revisions. This represented an increase of 600 jobs in the services sector and 1,600 jobs in oil and gas extraction.
News
June 20, 2025
A week since Israel and Iran started to exchange missile barrages, oil tanker transits through the critical Strait of Hormuz have remained largely steady, according to Bloomberg's vessel tracker.
News
June 18, 2025
The provision would allow energy companies subject to a 15% corporate alternative minimum tax to deduct certain drilling costs when calculating their taxable income. Companies including ConocoPhillips, Ovintiv Inc. and Civitas Resources, Inc. lobbied in favor of it.
News
June 06, 2025
The Energy Workforce & Technology Council has released its May 2025 jobs report, highlighting continued resilience in the energy services sector amid signs of a broader national labor market slowdown.
News
June 04, 2025
Banks are staying confident in long-term energy fundamentals despite significant trade policy turbulence, according to the Spring 2025 Haynes Boone Energy Bank Price Deck Survey. The survey, now in its 12th edition, is a leading source of information for energy lenders and producers.
News
May 29, 2025
Chevron plans to lay off approximately 200 employees in the Permian basin, the company announced in a filing with the Texas Workforce Commission. The TWC had mistakenly reported the number as 800 due to a data entry error, and it has since been corrected.
Article
May 2025
In today's booming energy sector, the dealmaking frenzy shows no signs of slowing. But as a CFO who has been on both sides of the transaction table across strategic energy M&A, I've learned a critical lesson that often goes against the grain of deal euphoria: Sometimes, the best deal is no deal.
News
May 27, 2025
Oil was steady as the market weighed the prospect for easing trade tensions between the European Union and the U.S. ahead of an OPEC+ meeting on supply policy.
