It’s been more than a decade since the peak of the Barnett Shale boom in the Fort Worth area, prompting global interest in the North Texas natural gas drilling market and outrage from activists concerned about the impact of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, on air and water quality. The boom’s legacy

Catastrophic damage to power lines and communications outages on Monday weighed on U.S. Gulf Coast refineries’ post-Hurricane Laura assessments and on offshore oil and gas production. Energy companies continued to inspect and restart offshore operations while onshore repairs were hampered by power outages. In Lake Charles, Louisiana, near where the

While speculation continues about whether drilling activity in the U.S. oil patch has hit rock bottom yet, some analysts believe that the industry is already on the path to recovery. Reuters analyst John Kemp expects drilling rates to start picking up in September and October, with production beginning to recover in the second