Category Archives: Professionals

What are they teaming up to do? Who would have thought; however, they have a common goal. These adversaries are working together to change permitting delays by the current administration. Both groups want permitting reforms. Reforms will help them to receive the full benefits of the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 (IRA) signed on AugustContinue reading “Green and Oil Join Forces”

Bank crisis! Feds raise interest rates again! OPEC+ cuts production! Dollar slumps! All of this happened within the last month. “The sky is falling, the sky is falling”, said Chicken Little. March 10th Silicon Valley Bank failed. Oil prices started falling. March 22nd Feds raise interest rates to just under 5%. April 2nd OPEC+ cutsContinue reading “The Sky is Falling”

The Willow project in Alaska is an ongoing oil development in the remote North Slope of Alaska operated by ConocoPhillips. The Biden Administration approved the controversial project. Yes, you read that correctly. I am as shocked as you are. The wind must have been blowing through the willows. Sorry I could not resist as theContinue reading “The Wind in the Willow”

Today’s video discusses the climate research of former NASA engineer, Tom Moser, and how the data analyzed from arctic ice cores change the entire narrative of modern day climate change theories. Everybody’s heard of the movie, the Right Stuff. It came out a few years ago. It was about the NASA astronauts that went to theContinue reading “The Right Stuff”

Companies come and go for all types of reasons: mergers, acquisitions, bankruptcy, etc. This is proving especially true for the first two types with the prosperity of the Permian Basin. The Permian Basin is a large sedimentary basin 250 miles wide and 300 miles long located in west Texas and southeast New Mexico. This basinContinue reading “Movers and Shakers in the Permian Basin”

The Republican’s energy policy package or The Lower Energy Costs Act is better known as H. R. 1. On March 30th Roll Call 182 Number H. R. 1 passed, 225-204, in the first session in the 118th Congress. Four Democrats (Cuellar (TX), Golden (ME), Vincente Gonzales (TX) and Perez (WA)) crossed the aisle and votedContinue reading “What does H. R. 1 Mean?”

Money, money, money! Who doesn’t like money especially in these volatile times. With inflation and/or the recession, prices are going up or down, but not exactly in the direction you want on the items you want. However, if you have extra cash lying around under your mattress perhaps you may want to consider investing inContinue reading “Investing 2023”

Keep Your Pots Off My Gas Stove! The Department of Energy (DOE) has now gotten involved with the war on gas stoves aiming to please more people. The proposed efficiency regulation, the first of its kind, went into effect January 31st and will be finalized January 2024. Currently half of all gas stoves sold inContinue reading “Follow-up on Previous Articles”

This past February at the Skiing World Championships in France the US Ski Team wore cool looking, state of the art, literally art, blue and white racing suits with the images of ice chucks floating in the ocean. The suit was designed jointly by the non-profit organization, Protect Our Winters (POW), which advocates for systemicContinue reading “US Ski Team Advocates”