Ed Ireland’s Remarks to TCEQ SIP Hearing
July 14, 2011
TCEQ’s June 8, 2011 “Revisions to the State of Texas Air Quality Implementation Plan for the Control of Ozone Air Pollution” (SIP) contains an estimate of VOCs from oil and gas facilities in the Dallas/Fort Worth 9-county non-attainment area. These estimates are in Table 3-18 on...
According to a report by the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, the oil and gas industry in Texas has been a driver of the Texas economy for the past 40 years.
The report notes that Texas oil and gas activity rose from 2002 to 2008 as prices climbed from their lows in the late 1990s. “By 2008, oil and gas extraction had reached 11.4 percent of total Texas output,” the report states....
A total of 1,350 wells in North Texas' Barnett Shale, including 600 in Tarrant County, have had a robust output averaging more than 3 million cubic feet of natural gas per day during their peak production months, according to research done by the Powell Shale Digest.
The largest average gas production by any well in one month was more than 17.8 million cubic feet per day...
Once again, shocking news has nations rethinking their energy policies. In Japan, a nuclear power disaster has put millions in danger, prompting some to reconsider nuclear expansion.
In North Africa, uprisings have sent oil prices soaring. Last year, a deep-water explosion spewed oil into the Gulf of Mexico for months and led to a...
(Reprinted from "NGI's Shale Daily", Feb. 23, 2011) Board members of the Fort Worth Independent School District (FWISD) are mulling a report they received Tuesday that recommends significant policy changes for gas drilling near schools and are expected to discuss the items early next month.
However, the executive director of the Barnett Shale Energy Education Council...
The Texas-based U.S. EPA official who overrode state regulators in December to sanction a local driller for water contamination quickly announced the order to an environmental activist and another ally minutes after it was issued.
...Range Resources, which is challenging an Environmental Protection Agency claim that the company's Barnett Shale natural gas wells contaminated two residential Parker County water wells, is using the EPA's own statements to buttress its defense.
Range said in recent filings with the Texas Railroad Commission that sworn statements by...
Total natural gas production in North Texas' Barnett Shale has passed a milestone level of 8 trillion cubic feet, the Star-Telegram's Jack Z. Smith reports.
Star Telegram reports that without its natural gas windfall Arlington would have had to put the brakes on commuter service to downtown Fort Worth.
Ed Ireland, executive director of the Barnett Shale Energy Education Council, speaks about the Barnett Shale in a video produced by America’s Natural Gas Alliance.
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The movie Haynesville showing in Weatherford Friday.
City officials are preparing to start testing for air pollution around natural gas sites.
For years the University of Texas at Austin had its Permian Basin. Now UT-Arlington has its Barnett Shale. Read more
The state agency in charge of testing for air pollution gave inaccurate test results to the city of Fort Worth about toxic emissions from gas wells, and later realized what it had done but failed to notify the city or the public for weeks about the problem
, according to an audit made public this week, the...
By most accounts, there exists a missing generation in the oil and gas industry; however, the Fort Worth Independent School District and one of the largest industry trade associations think they’ve got a solution: a program, now one year old, that puts high school students on a career path toward a job in the energy field
, the...
