Is US Shale Oil Production Profitable?
My answer to a recent Forbes article: How Is U.S. Shale Oil Production Performing So Well? This is a decent analysis of the current state of affairs of U.S. shale production.…
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The Enemy Of My Enemy: Big Oil Befriends Big Corn
This story reminds me of the tax reform act of 1986. I remember during the middle of it when we all thought we were gonna lose all of our tax…
Personal Recollections of Dr. Tom Coburn
Dr. Tom Coburn died last Friday after a long bout with Cancer. There really are very few truly great men. But I consider Senator Dr. Tom Coburn right up there…
Survival Strategies in Tough Times
The Small Business oil and gas producer in America has always faced the challenge of falling product prices from time to time. This particular time is doubly challenging. Last week…
The Many Lives of the American Shale Drilling Industry
The challenges facing the American horizontal drilling and fracking industry, also known as the shale drilling industry, have been documented extensively over the past several years. The article linked below calls them “casualties.”…
Truth and Transparency
I have been in the oil and gas business for over forty years and in the communications space for about that long as well. I think that gives me a…
Obama’s Energy Policy: Death By A Thousand Cuts
Christopher Helman Forbes Staff Contributor Group Energy This is a guest editorial by Mike Cantrell, president of the Domestic Energy Producers’ Alliance What sounds like the title of an Alfred Hitchcock movie is actually…
ECU’s 2019 Entrepreneur of the Year
Cantrell has made his mark as a trailblazer in the energy sector Cantrell, ECU’s 2019 Entrepreneur of the Year, to deliver annual Limes Lecture Mike Cantrell has been named East…
Good Policy Benefits All
Number four of the Rotary Club’s Four-Way Test – whether something is beneficial to all concerned – comes to mind when observing the ongoing dispute between a segment of the state’s oil…
Right-of-way Disputes
The Oklahoma Energy Producers Alliance supports the right of elected county commissioners to determine what is in the best interest of the residents in their respective counties when it comes…