Bob Campbell

The Chevron Corp.’s move to Houston from California, where it had been based for 145 years, will be advantageous in many ways both to the company and Texas. Among other benefits, the move gets Chevron out of the very hostile regulatory environment under which it had long labored at San Ramon, Calif., 33 miles east [...]

The Apostle Paul always inculcated the spiritual strength of First Century Christians, but he had to rely on their physical strength when they lowered him in a basket from the high wall of Damascus to escape the governor who had ordered his arrest. The Rev. Daniel Perez, Spanish language pastor of the Odessa Bible Church, [...]

Dramatic oilfield job growth is tied to boosts in oil and natural gas production and reports that those trends will continue, the Texas Oil & Gas and Texas Independent Producers & Royalty Owners associations say. The U.S. Energy Information Administration projects that the Permian Basin’s crude oil production will set an all-time record of 6.6 [...]

Friday, Oct. 18, Carl Junction rolled into Bolivar to play a football game with large implications for the conference and district tournament.

Congressman August Pfluger has broad support among West Texas oil and gas groups as well as in Washington in his effort to ferret out the U.S. Department of Energy’s real reasons for backing President Biden’s year-long ban of new liquefied natural export terminals. The Permian Basin Petroleum, Texas Independent Producers & Royalty Owners and Texas [...]

Saturday, Oct. 26, the Father Tolton Trailblazers brought their softball team to Bolivar with 21 wins under their belts to face the Lady Liberators who sported 23 wins.

Pumping a record 6.3 million barrels of oil per day and poised to reach 6.6 mb/d next year, the Permian Basin is driven by good prices, technological advances and fact-based optimism that the worldwide demand for oil and natural gas will stay strong for decades to come. And as much oil and gas as it’s [...]

All the Rev. Joseph Mullins ever wanted to do was be a pastor and he has returned to his first love as pastor of the Legacy of Faith Worship Center after serving as statewide bishop of the Bedford, Texas-based Pentecostal Church of God and its more than 50 Oklahoma churches. “I missed the feeling of [...]

The Chevron Corp. combined its mergers with the Hess Corp. and PDC Energy with its start-up of the Anchor Project 140 miles off the Louisiana Coast in the Gulf of Mexico to increase its worldwide production by 7 percent from 2023 and set a third-quarter record. Chairman-Chief Executive Officer Michael K. Wirth said beginning water [...]

Expecting to close its acquisition of Marathon Oil by year-end, ConocoPhillips stayed on track in the third quarter to distribute at least $9 billion to its shareholders in 2024. “We have officially incorporated our variable return of cash into the ordinary dividend and consistent with our long-term track record we are confident we can grow [...]