In this episode, TXOGA President Todd Staples and Shana Joyce, Director of Government and Regulatory Affairs, discuss how production, pipelines, processing, and ports—what TXOGA calls “The Four P’s” of the oil and natural gas industry—work together to make Texas the Energy Capital of the World.

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The Texan: If Texas were its own country, it would rank fourth in crude oil production, right behind Saudi Arabia and ahead of Canada.

TXOGA: Landowners Handbook: Pipelines 101

Texas Economic Development Corporation: Texas is home to 31% of the nation’s refining capacity.

Bullock Museum: Texas Oil and Gas Exhibit

Reuters: In 2023, the United States leapfrogged Qatar and Australia to become the world’s leading exporter of liquified natural gas (LNG).

Texas Monthly: George Mitchell was a Texas A&M graduate who was known as the “pioneer of shale”. Mitchell is credited with pioneering the economic extraction of shale gas using the fracking technique.