19 Jan, 2019
By AIPG-TX News

Texas Energy Profile

In case you didn’t know the details:

  1. Texas leads the nation in energy production, primarily from crude oil and natural gas, providing more than one-fifth of U.S. domestically-produced energy.1
  2. Second only to Alaska in total land area, Texas stretches about 800 miles at its widest points both east to west and north to south.2
  3. Crude oil and natural gas fields are present across the entire state, and
  4. Coal (Lignite) is found in bands that outcrop across the eastern Texas coastal plain and in other coal-producing areas in the north-central and southwestern parts of the state.3,4
  5.  Texas also has abundant renewable energy resources and has rapidly developed its wind energy, becoming first in the nation in wind generated electricity.5,6
  6. With a significant number of sunny days across vast distances, Texas is among the leading states in solar energy potential as well.7,8
  7. Geothermal resources suitable for power generation are present in East  Texas.9 and
  8. Uranium deposits are found in South Texas.10
  9. Overall, Texas is a large state with a wealth of energy resources.

For the rest of the EIA presentation, see: https://www.eia.gov/state/analysis.php?sid=TX , and for the distribution of energy in Texas, see: https://www.eia.gov/state/?sid=TX

14 Jan, 2019
By AIPG-TX News

Texas AIPG Team Produces Series of Publications over Past Two Years

Michael D. Campbell (AIPG-TX VP-Eastern Texas), Henry M. Wise (AIPG-TX President), Roger W. Lee (AIPG-TX Councilor-at-Large), Glen Collier (AIPG-TX Councilor-at-Large), M. David Campbell (AIPG-TX Webmaster), and others have produced a number of papers over the past two years.

Some are chapters/sections in papers and some are stand-alone papers for the Energy Minerals Division (AAPG), while others are papers based on earlier I2M-precursor projects involving:

1) brine contamination of rural groundwater in Ohio;

2) uranium, thorium, and REE in Alaska;

3) siderite in Oklahoma-Arkansas;

4) editorials to encourage professional geologists to publish in the new open-access journals involving:

  •     media and academic bias against uranium mining and nuclear power; and
  •    impact of current conditions in the U.S. on natural resource development.

To review the papers in the series, see the list (and associated links) in chronological order (here).