Bob Campbell

The Apache Corp.’s $4.5-billion merger with the Houston-based Callon Petroleum Co. has significantly boosted its presence and production potential in the Permian Basin. And paired with Apache’s operations in Egypt and Suriname, its third quarter success with Callon inculcates a lot of fourth quarter optimism. President-CEO John J. Christmann said during Apache’s quarterly earnings call [...]

Congressman August Pfluger and the Permian Basin Petroleum and Texas Oil & Gas associations say President-elect Trump and his administration will help the Permian Basin achieve its full potential of oil and natural gas production. “President Trump is laser-focused on restoring energy dominance and I look forward to working with him to unleash the production [...]

The Occidental Petroleum Co.’s $1-billion direct air capture plant 35 miles west of Odessa in northwestern Ector County should be operational by mid-2025, collect 250,000 tons per year of carbon dioxide and add that much again the following year. Making her third quarter earnings call report from Houston, Oxy President-CEO Vicki A. Hollub said the [...]

Odessa oilman Kirk Edwards and the Texas Independent Producers & Royalty Owners Association say Texas’ business environment is much more favorable than states like California where costly regulations recently led the Phillips 66 Co. to close a refinery. “Congratulations to Phillips 66 on the closure of its Los Angeles Basin Refinery and pushing back on [...]

The story in Acts 27:27-28:5 of the Apostle Paul’s danger-fraught journey to Rome and his shipwreck on the island of Malta shows that God always helps his people through trouble. That’s according to the Revs. Terry Pugh and Vaughny Taylor, who say Paul’s being bitten on the hand by a viper that he shook off [...]

State Rep. Brooks Landgraf’s long-cherished Texas STRONG legislative package to return millions in oil and natural gas severance tax revenues to the areas that produced them has its best chance yet of clearing the Legislature and being signed into law. Asked if the rancor that House Speaker Dade Phelan and Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick have [...]

The increasing stability of oilfield work is attracting a growing number of applicants who may eventually meet all of the long-understaffed energy industry’s needs. That’s according to the Houston-based Energy Workforce & Technology Council and Texas Independent Producers & Royalty Owners Association, who say recent employment reports are encouraging. EWTC President Molly Determan said the [...]

Friday, Nov. 15., the football Liberators took the long drive to West Plains for the second time this year.

The energy industry will get a boost from the incoming Trump Administration, but Waco economist Ray Perryman says it won’t be as dramatic as some oilmen expect. Addressing 200 people at SouthWest Bank’s Annual Economic Outlook Conference at noon Wednesday at the Marriott Hotel & Conference Center downtown, Perryman said the benefits will include more [...]

The account in Jude 1:9 of Satan disputing with the Archangel Michael over possession of the body of Moses should be read in the context of the preceding verses because, brief as it is, it’s full of meaning for contemporary Christians. That’s according to Ministers Travis Walker and Joshua Rieff, who say it is a [...]