Press Coverage

With three Texas energy projects now competing for a piece of the $7 billion pie set aside by the U.S. Department of Energy (DoE) for hydrogen development, there is considerable hype around the state’s potential to lead the nation in accelerating the 2050 transition to net-zero. But to meet that goal, we must stay grounded in reality.

Media Outlet: Dallas Morning News
Featured Faculty: Hugh Daigle

Since a deadly February 2021 freeze interrupted the flow of natural gas to power plants across Texas, state regulators have inspected gas facilities to see if they’re prepared for winter.

Media Outlet: Politico Energy Wire
Featured Faculty: Hugh Daigle 

Cost, access and inefficiency drive the push for EOR research and the results — using nanobubbles and NGLs — are showing promise.

Media Outlet: Hart Energy E+P
Featured Faculty: Mukul Sharma

The price of home heating oil has fallen significantly, according to the Energy Information Administration. It’s down to $4.47 a gallon this week after hitting a record high of $5.93 per gallon in November.

Media Outlet: NPR’s Marketplace
Featured Facuty: Hugh Daigle

Texas is working hard to secure a footing beyond fossil fuels and its status as a petroleum powerhouse. While it already generates more wind energy than any other U.S. state, the mighty air that lashes its high plains will soon power a novel process: the production of vehicle fuel from water.

Media Outlet: San Antonio Express-News
Featured Facuty: Hugh Daigle

Use of various mitigation techniques for natural gas fired electricity may hold key.

Media Outlet: McGill Newsroom
Featured Faculty: Arvind Ravikumar

The price of oil has gone from $120 a barrel in the summer down to just about $75 now. The reason? Turns out, there are lots of them.

Media Outlet: NPR’s Marketplace
Featured Faculty: Hugh Daigle

The tremor started in an area that regulators watch closely.

Media Outlet: Texas Standard
Featured Faculty: Hugh Daigle

No, the U.S. can’t claim the “cleanest energy” title just yet. But the tools to achieve it are within reach.

Media Outlet: Houston Chronicle
Featured Faculty: Arvind Ravikumar

Batteries and renewable energy alone can’t decarbonize industries, and recent proposals for a “hydrogen economy” could bridge those gaps.

Media Outlet: Wired
Featured Faculty: Arvind Ravikumar

The national average price for a gallon of gas today is $4.94, according to AAA. Though it’s a little lower than its recent high of more than $5 a gallon, it’s still painful for everyone filling up their tank.

Media Outlet: NPR's Marketplace
Featured Faculty: Hugh Daigle

The European Union’s plan to phase out Russian natural gas imports by 2027 rests partly on increasing near-term imports of US liquefied natural gas. This will require a coordinated policy response that includes securing supplies from major exporters, global diplomacy, expanding import capacity, and alignment with Europe’s climate goals.

Media Outlet: Nature Energy
Featured Faculty: Arvind Ravikumar

As a heat wave grips large parts of the country and sets heat records coinciding with the start of summer, the U.S. electricity grid has held up.

Media Outlet: EnergyWire
Featured Faculty: Hugh Daigle

As they campaign to win election in November, Republicans are blaming Democrats for record-high gas prices, and Democrats are shifting the blame to oil companies.

Media Outlet: Austin American-Statesman
Featured Faculty: Hugh Daigle and Arvind Ravikumar

Climate change and poor planning puts strain on the grid and consumers.

Media Outlet: Inside Climate News
Featured Faculty: Arvind Ravikumar

Late last week, the House of Representatives passed a bill that would outlaw what it calls predatory gas prices and also expand federal authority to investigate price gouging allegations. But getting that oil out of the ground and turning it into something we can put into our cars and trucks isn’t that simple.

Media Outlet: NPR’s Marketplace
Featured Faculty: Hugh Daigle

As the announcement of carbon sequestration projects becomes the norm, it’s time we look at what we know from a technical angle about how these projects need to be run based on the industry’s experience with enhanced oil recovery.

Media Outlet: Journal of Petroleum Technology
Featured Faculty: Larry Lake

Why do prices vary so much across state lines? The short answer: state taxes and proximity to oil refineries and pipelines, according to oil and gas experts.

Media Outlet: USA Today
Featured Faculty: Hugh Daigle

Jon Olson, chairman of the Hildebrand Department of Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering at the University of Texas, said “there's plenty of oil” worldwide, so the price increases are mainly the result of fears about supplies being cut off rather than an actual crude shortage.

Media Outlet: Austin American-Statesman
Featured Faculty: Jon Olson

There’s been a lot of discussion about the fact that the United States imports Russian oil — and a pretty good amount of it. Now, you could be excused for asking yourself: “Wait a second, I thought the US had a bunch of oil in the Permian Basin in Texas and the Bakken Shale in North Dakota. Why the heck are we importing oil?” Turns out the answer is part chemistry and part economics.

Media Outlet: NPR’s Marketplace
Featured Faculty: Hugh Daigle

If there were fewer of us, would the amount of greenhouse gasses we emit reduce? It’s a question that often creeps up in discussions about climate change.

Media Outlet: BBC World Service
Featured Faculty: Arvind Ravikumar

Carbon capture and storage played a large role in Lease Sale 257, which recorded a bumper crop of bids from oil and gas producers Nov. 17 for drilling rights in the US Gulf of Mexico.

Media Outlet: S&P Global
Featured Faculty: Hugh Daigle

Almost a million wells are quietly belching methane. The new rule could halve emissions.

Media Outlet: Grist
Featured Faculty: Arvind Ravikumar

Stray methane is a sneaky pollutant. It’s also a thorn in the side of the natural gas industry.

Media Outlet: Casper Star-Tribune
Featured Faculty: Arvind Ravikumar

To control methane emissions, the EPA seeks better ways to measure them.

Media Outlet: NPR’s Marketplace
Featured Faculty: Arvind Ravikumar

Fracking techniques could be used to generate energy with no carbon emissions.

Media Outlet: Wall Street Journal
Featured Faculty: Mukul Sharma

Media Outlet: NPR Marketplace
Featured Faculty: Eric van Oort

Media Outlet: Texas Tribune
Featured Faculty: Jon Olson

Media Outlet: Abilene Reporter-News
Featured Faculty: Jon Olson

Media Outlet: Wired
Featured Faculty: Eric van Oort

Media Outlet: Telemundo Austin
Featured Faculty: Carlos Torres-Verdin

Media Outlet: JPT
Featured Faculty: Jon Olson

Media Outlet: KHOU
Featured Faculty: Jon Olson

Media Outlet: Midland Reporter-Telegram
Featured Alumnus: Gary Thomas

Media Outlet: Oil and Gas Facilities
Featured Faculty: Hugh Daigle

Media Outlet: JPT Magazine
Featured Faculty: Zoya Heidari

Media Outlet: Daily Texan
Featured Faculty: Jon Olson

Media Outlet: Houston Chronicle
Featured Faculty: Carlos Torres-Verdin

Media Outlet: Daily Texan
Featured Student: Karan Jerath

Media Outlet: NPR Marketplace
Featured Faculty: Eric van Oort

Media Outlet: Rigzone
Featured Faculty: Eric van Oort

Media Outlet: Daily Texan
Featured Student/Faculty: Karan Jerath and Jon Olson

Media Outlet: San Antonio Express-News
Featured Faculty: Mukul Sharma

Media Outlet: KUT
Featured Faculty: Eric van Oort

Media Outlet: The New York Times
Featured Student: Karan Jerath

Media Outlet: U.S. News & World Report
Featured Alumnus: Russell Parker

Media Outlet: Austin Business Journal

Media Outlet: VICE
Featured Faculty: Hugh Daigle

Media Outlet: San Antonio Express-News
Featured Faculty: Paul Bommer

Media Outlet: Austin American-Statesman

Media Outlet: Phys.org
Featured Faculty: Masa Prodanovic

Media Outlet: Daily Texan
Featured Student: Karan Jerath

Media Outlet: NPR
Featured Faculty: Mukul Sharma

Media Outlet: The Conversation
Featured Faculty: Eric van Oort

Media Outlet: Daily Texan
Featured Student: Nick Staviski

Media Outlet: KUT
Featured Faculty: Eric van Oort

Media Outlet: Austin American-Statesman
Featured Student: Jake McKenzie

Media Outlet: Wall Street Journal
Featured Alumnus: Nick Steinsberger