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Oil surged on Friday as tensions in the Red Sea escalated following attacks by the US and its allies against Yemeni sites controlled by Iran-backed Houthi rebels.
Oil gained as much as 1% on Friday amid supply worries after Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told Fox Business, "We are committed to bringing the Iranians to going back to 100,000 barrels per day ...
The session high was more than $80, highest this year so far. U.S. West Texas Intermediate crude futures climbed 66 cents, or 0.9%, to settle at $72.68, paring gains after touching a 2024 high of ...
In 1919, tax revenue from oil production surpassed $1 million ($17.6 million in today's terms) and in 1929 it reached $6 million ($106 million in today's terms). [ 34 ] [ 95 ] By 1940, the oil and gas industry accounted for approximately half of all taxes paid in the state.
Commercial crude oil stock pile. The Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) is an emergency stockpile of petroleum maintained by the United States Department of Energy (DOE). It is the largest publicly known emergency supply in the world; its underground tanks in Louisiana and Texas have capacity for 714 million barrels (113,500,000 m 3). [1]
May 5 – A leak occurred in a relief line, at a Keystone Pipeline Terminal in Beaumont, Texas. About 18,500 gallons of crude oil were spilled. The cause seemed to be internal corrosion. [5] July 28 – A gas line explosion and fire occurred in Martin County, Texas, which injured four workers. A ditching truck hit an existing high-pressure gas ...
The Texas industry produced 5.86 million barrels per day of crude oil in October 2024 – led by production in west Texas in the Permian Basin. It was the largest total on record in history.
At the peak, over 5 million people in Texas were without power, [68] with 11 million experiencing an outage at some point, [22] some for more than 3 days. [69] During the period of outages, the wholesale electric price was set to $9,000/megawatt-hour which was the "system cap" set by ERCOT, [70] compared to a more typical $25/MWh. [22]