The Texas Energy Minute

Last week, I was at the North American Prospect Expo or NAPE. It’s the annual meeting once a year in Houston in which deal makers from all over the country, even all over the world, get [...]

People ask all the time about energy independence. What does it mean to be independent? Do we want energy independence? Are we going to achieve energy independence? This depends a lot on what you [...]

You might recall about a year ago when Saudi Arabia announced that it was going to take its government owned oil company, Saudi Aramco, public. In this initial announcement Saudi had intended to [...]

Over the past couple of weeks we continue to deal with the fallout from Hurricane Harvey. As a railroad commissioner the particular role I play is helping the state and the citizens of the state [...]

Today I am down in Corpus Christi where tomorrow I’m going to do a tour of the local port and talk with some reporters about a project to dredge the port and expand its capabilities. This [...]

Over the past few months I have been asked several times if I can be a conservative, a Republican, and an environmentalist. Well, what does it mean to be an environmentalist? If you ask me [...]

A couple of weeks ago OPEC’s meeting convened, as it does every six months. And as many people anticipated, OPEC agreed to continue its production cuts at one and a half million barrels a [...]

Last week President Trump sent his nominations over to the Senate to replace the two open seats on the FERC board, FERC or Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. Is the federal body that regulates [...]

This is Ryan Sitton, your Texas Railroad Commissioner, with your two-minute energy update. The last couple of weeks, we got a renewed report about emissions coming from the energy industry. In [...]

This month’s energy minute focuses on the new Trump administration cabinet and what that means for energy.