First came the roughnecks and other oil field workers, almost all men. Lured by steady wages as the nation climbed out of the Great Recession, they filled McKenzie County’s few motel rooms, then began sleeping in cars, tents, trailers — …
TC Energy Corp. has ended its 16-year quest to build the Keystone XL oil pipeline, a controversial cross-border project that became a litmus test for climate activism and was blocked by President Joe Biden. Calgary-based TC Energy said in a …
West Des Moines, Iowa-based Career General Agency LLC (CGA Insurance Services), a subsidiary of GuideOne Insurance, has launched a managing general underwriter (MGU) program with its newly developed CGA Energy Division. Calling the MGU launch a “momentous achievement for our …
Construction on the long disputed Keystone XL oil pipeline halted on Jan. 21 as incoming U.S. President Joe Biden revoked its permit on his first day in office. The 1,700-mile (2,735-kilometer) pipeline was planned to carry roughly 800,000 barrels of …
Claims adjusting and environmental risk management solutions provider, Global Risk Solutions Inc., has acquired specialist energy sector adjusting and consultancy firm R Winkler & Co., based in Sugar Land, Texas. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. Led by founder …
Insurance brokerage IMA Inc. has opened its Houston office and appointed Ricky Bryan as executive vice president, director of Houston Energy. Bryan joins IMA after 15 years in leadership roles at Marsh JLT Specialty as senior vice president and as …
When you’re known as the energy capital of the world, oil busts are nothing new. But Houston now finds itself in uncharted territory — grappling with an oil downturn in the middle of a pandemic. Like in other cities, the …
After overseeing the state’s energy sector through one of Texas’ largest oil booms in recent years, the Texas Railroad Commission has suddenly found itself in the middle of two global crises that have delivered devastating reversals of fortune to the …
If it lasts, this week’s plunge in oil prices could hit the Texas economy in ways that make it much harder for state and local governments to help the state’s residents. It’s part of a double whammy on the state …
A top state oil regulator estimates that North Dakota producers have idled thousands of wells — amounting to more than a quarter of the oil wells in the state — as the U.S. oil industry crashed during the coronavirus outbreak. …
