In a 2017 Forbes article, writer Robert Rapier escorted the magazine’s audience on a fascinating tour of “How the Shale Boom Turned the World Upside Down”. If you recall, the nation’s oil and gas production had long ago peaked with conventional drilling and by 2005, we were in a full-blown energy crisis highly dependent on Venezuela and Saudi Arabia oil imports. And natural gas? Well, the only solution here with certainty according to one energy investor was “to pray.” ...

Among the largest privately held oil and gas companies today, few can claim witness to the Dust Bowl, fatal undoing of Bonnie and Clyde, and peak of the Great Depression. The year was 1934 when H.L. Hunt founded Hunt Oil after major discoveries in East Texas. ...

Reese Energy Consulting this week is expanding its work on a large gas plant and gas purchaser audit in West Texas. The REC team conducts a number of audits like this throughout the year to determine where our clients can improve revenues, optimize plant performance, and discover new opportunities that positively impact their bottom lines. ...