In 2018, I began using a football metaphor to describe ESG to industry professionals, financial groups and random people who would ask any follow up questions regarding the trendy acronym ESG. First off, ESG stands for “Environmental, Social and Governance” and it is a new scoring system to indicate a […]
Minnesota-based Great River Energy (GRE) sold the 1,151-megawatt power plant – North Dakota’s largest – to Rainbow Energy Center LLC, and sold the transmission system that runs from central North Dakota to Minnesota to Nexus Line LLC. Rainbow Energy Center and Nexus Line are both affiliates of Bismarck-based Rainbow Energy […]
The Crude Life Content Network has announced that MyPillow will be Living The Crude Life for awhile longer. The agreement is effective immediately and will include product promotion, content distribution and joint-content opportunities. “We are very excited to renew our contract with MyPillow,” Jason Spiess, founder and Chairman of The Crude […]
Each week, Steve Heins has been sending The Crude Life another Poem in honor of National Poetry Month. Launched by the Academy of American Poets in April 1996, National Poetry Month reminds the public that poets have an integral role to play in our culture and that poetry matters. Over […]
Here are this week’s special guests on The Crude Life Week In Review Episode 453: US Senator Kevin Cramer talks about his briefing with the Ukraine Parliament. “[I met] with five members of the Rada, the parliament from Ukraine – all five of them moms, unfortunately for them, all the husbands […]
Josh Swanson, attorney, Vogel Law Firm joins Jason Spiess to talk about how eminent domain is used, has been used and may be used in energy development. Swanson, who is considered one of the top eminent domain attorneys in the state, recently won a ND Supreme Court Case Wilkinson vs. […]
Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Drilling Productivity Report, Monthly Crude Oil and Natural Gas Production Report, Natural Gas Monthly In 2021, U.S. natural gas production increased 2% and reached 118.8 billion cubic feet per day (Bcf/d) on a monthly basis in December 2021, the highest on record. Three regions drove […]
Ever since Elon Musk tweeted about ESG more and more people are checking into the acronym to find out why the billionaire is paying attention to it. This week the ESG Express it made it’s way to Utah, and the Beehive State does not like ESG. In fact they are […]
U.S. Senator Kevin Cramer (R-ND), member of the Senate Banking and Budget Committees, penned an op-ed, which first appeared in Fox Business, examining the impacts of Biden’s skyrocketing inflation on rural America. “For the past 15 months of Joe Biden’s tenure as president of the United States, we’ve seen an […]
James Willis, Marcellus Drilling News, gives an update from the Marcellus Utica region. Willis starts off with an update from Coterra Energy, which is a company based on a merger between Cabot Oil and Gas and Cimarex Energy for $17 billion merger. The Houston oil and gas company on Friday […]
Here are this week’s special guests on The Crude Life Week In Review Episode 452: Alma Cook, Cook Compliance Solutions talks about how Alma, a female environmentally minded professional gravitated to industry. She explains how her brother in Thailand was the catalyst for her journey in oil and gas. Texas […]
Executive Coach Joe Sinnott of Witting Partners shares his insight on how organizations respond to turnover and culture changes. Host Jason Spiess and Sinnott use the recent transpirings at St. Peter’s University, who experienced a historic NCAA March Madness run only to have their coach leave and several players enter […]
Earth Day is an annual event on April 22 to demonstrate support for environmental protection. First held on April 22, 1970, it now includes a wide range of events coordinated globally by EarthDay.org including 1 billion people in more than 193 countries. The official theme for 2022 is Invest In […]
Martin Water Midstream, LLC and its affiliates (“MWM” or the “Company”), a private water midstream operator with offices in Midland, Houston and Dallas, Texas, has acquired all of the membership interests of Corsican Midstream Permian Basin, LLC, (“Corsican”) adding approximately 16,000 acres in SUAs to MWM’s existing portfolio of SUAs. […]
Empire Petroleum (NYSE American: EP) (“Empire” or the “Company”), an oil and gas company with current producing assets in Texas, Louisiana, North Dakota, Montana and New Mexico, let The Crude Life know that it has closed the acquisition of operated and non-operated oil and natural gas assets from a publicly-owned […]
The North Dakota Oil and Gas Division was notified of a fire and subsequent release occurring Wednesday, April 13 at the Jellesed SWD 1 Central Tank Battery location, about 3 miles east of Keene, North Dakota. McKenzie Energy Partners, LLC reported that 2,400 barrels of produced water and 50 barrels […]
This past week I had a long conversation with a group of random gentlemen at the local diner. All five of us were belly up to the counter drinking coffee, eating omelets and talking turkey. Well, not so much turkey as Environmental Social Governance (ESG) and how it is impacting […]
Jason Spiess is joined by Midland Mayor Patrick Payton and Odessa Mayor Javier Joven to talk about DistributionNOW’s grand opening in the Permian Basin. They also have remodeled by adding a lot of square footage in the Bakken too. The City of Odessa, Texas, Mayor Javier Joven is feeling good […]
Alma Cook joined Jason Spiess on the Zoom Line to talk about her new music video “5000 Candles” and the final stretch of completing her music album. Spiess contends that while many in the oil and gas industry are still searching for ways to connect with tomorrow’s leaders today, Alma […]
In response to the Department of the Interior’s announcement just before the holiday weekend that the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) will soon hold onshore oil and natural gas lease sales for 173 parcels on roughly 144,000 acres, Western Energy Alliance today issued the statement below attributable to President Kathleen Sgamma. “While […]
April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month (SAAM) and National Child Abuse Prevention Month and The Crude Life continues to create awareness for organizations, communities and individuals who are shedding light on this critical issue for humanity. The recent episode of “No Neutral Moments”, the Mayor of Midland Texas Patrick Payton […]
U.S. Senator Kevin Cramer, member of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, joined David Asman on Fox Business’ Kudlow to discuss the importance of domestic energy development and Democrats’ hypocritical energy and environmental policies. Senator Cramer also highlighted his America First approach to trade and energy production by aligning […]
When I saw the recent news about NFL Quarterback Dwayne Haskins death, I immediately thought of Matthew Nelson, brother of Gunner Nelson, son of Ricky Nelson and grandson to Ozzie and Harriet. Then I thought of the late Sarge Summers and how old his children were. The reason I thought […]
The Crude Life Content News Correspondent Ken Lavin sits down with North Dakota Commerce Commissioner James Leiman, about how the state of North Dakota and the Bakken oil field can assist the energy issues with the Ukraine as well as other European countries. “The state can help by putting more […]
This past week the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) inched closer to regulating the Environmental Social Governance (ESG) as part of a company’s new world. This is significant for several reasons and something every company who is part of a supply chain should understand. Specifically, this is something every public […]
Here are this week’s special guests on The Crude Life Week In Review Episode 450. Jason Isaac, Director of Life:Powered, a national initiative of the Texas Public Policy Foundation to raise America’s energy IQ, joined Jason Spiess to talk about how Texas became the first state to break through on […]
In this Decade of Discussion, The Crude Life looks back at our interview with Stephen Moore, Writer and Commentator. In this exclusive interview, host Jason Spiess drives and drops off Moore at the airport in order to get this industrial-sized energized interview. The two talk about the importance of energy […]
The Krista Escamilla Show has officially launched. Every week Krista will interview guests who share their inspirational stories, highlights communities, paying it forward and positive personalities. Krista is an Associated Press Award-winning journalist, former anchor for CBS7 News in West Texans, PBS’s Permian Life as well as the host of several […]
In 2013, Mary Hodell was the owner and operator of the Farmer’s Daughter Cafe in South Heart, N.D. This local eatery was the closest eating establishment to the then-new 20,000-barrel- per-day Dakota Prairie Refinery (Calumet Specialty Products Partners and MDU Resources) as well as a stone’s throw from a trailer […]
U.S. Senator Kevin Cramer (R-ND), member of the Senate Environment and Public Works committee, delivered remarks on the Senate floor on the Biden Administration’s “9,000 Lease Lie” amidst a backdrop of skyrocketing inflation, soaring gas prices, and Biden’s ongoing supply chain crisis. “We have a geopolitical opportunity right now to cut Putin’s […]
This week I am traveling again so I am writing this quick ESG University Classroom Column for several reasons. One is to keep the weekly frequency of the Classroom Column while another is to see what others in the world of politics, media and industry are talking about in regards […]
U.S. Senator Kevin Cramer (R-ND) led his Republican colleagues on the Senate Banking and Environment and Public Works (EPW) committees in calling on Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chair Gary Gensler to withdraw the agency’s proposed climate disclosure rule, which would require publicly-traded companies to disclose their greenhouse gas emissions […]
The Strategic Petroleum Reserve is the world’s largest supply of emergency crude oil. The reserve is maintained by the Department of Energy and is located along the coastline of the Gulf of Mexico in Louisiana and Texas in underground salt caverns. The Strategic Petroleum Reserve was started in 1975 after […]
Ladies and gentleman, boys and girls, children of all ages, welcome to the Final Two in The Crude Life March Madness Tournament. There was so much Madness this year, we marched it right into April. This year it’s Books vs. Bitcoin. Female Leadership vs. Male Leadership. A Cinderella No. 8 […]
The relationship with agriculture and oil and gas is one that goes back to the foundation of the petroleum industry. Since day one, the two industries have had to co-exist, which is one of the main reasons oil producers call their departments that work with the surface owners “Land Departments”. […]
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