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1 week ago | 
oaoa.com | Bob Campbell
The Babylonian Exile was a very painful period in Jewish history in which King Nebuchadnezzar II destroyed Jerusalem and the Temple and moved 20,000 people 900 miles east to Babylon, 50 miles south of present-day Baghdad, Iraq, where they were held captive for 70 years. The Rev.
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2 weeks ago | 
oaoa.com | Bob Campbell
Given the great demand for liquefied natural gas in Europe and Asia and the rapidly developing need for gas to generate electricity for data centers, the Permian Basin’s gas market should boom within a few years. Odessa oilman Kirk Edwards and Waco economist Ray Perryman say the LNG export terminals under construction along the Gulf Coast will be a big factor.
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2 weeks ago | 
oaoa.com | Bob Campbell
You can’t run an oilfield without steel and lots of it and it’s costing more than it used to as steel has gotten harder to get domestically and from around the world. The Texas Independent Producers & Royalty Owners and Permian Basin Petroleum associations say those challenges are related to President Trump’s tariffs but not exclusively so.
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2 weeks ago | 
oaoa.com | Bob Campbell
Congressman August Pfluger has passed more legislation this year than any other member of the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington, most notably the Congressional Review Act he sponsored to repeal President Biden’s natural gas tax, which President Trump signed into law March 17.
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2 weeks ago | 
oaoa.com | Bob Campbell
The Most Rev. Michael J. Sis, bishop of the Catholic Diocese of San Angelo, was no less surprised than the rest of the world to learn that an American, Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, had been chosen to be the new pope. Taking the papal name of Pope Leo XIV in honor of Pope Leo XIII, who served from 1878 to 1903, Pope Leo XIV succeeds Pope Francis, who died April 21 at age 88. He is 69.
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3 weeks ago | 
oaoa.com | Bob Campbell
The Texas Energy Fund program to help build new natural gas-powered electrical generation plants is getting off to a slow start with several companies having withdrawn their loan applications for various reasons. The money provided by the Texas Legislature two years ago, $5 billion, is still there, but the industrial impetus to get these urgently needed projects done appears to be lacking.
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3 weeks ago | 
oaoa.com | Bob Campbell
Using geothermal energy or underground heat to generate electricity is the hot new thing in the energy industry and despite obstacles it will gain importance especially in Texas where it can be paired with oil and natural gas production. Odessa oilman Kirk Edwards and Waco economist Ray Perryman say it has great potential. “Geothermal energy is both promising and challenging for Texas,” Edwards said.
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3 weeks ago | 
oaoa.com | Bob Campbell
Occidental Petroleum’s first quarter of 2025 was characterized by debt reduction and market-motivated cost cutting balanced with strong production and encouraging global developments. President-CEO Vicki Hollub said in her company’s earnings call report that growth in the second half of the year will primarily be driven by the completion of turnarounds in the Middle East as well as a variety of activities planned in the Gulf of America.
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3 weeks ago | 
oaoa.com | Bob Campbell
Concentrating on lowering costs in the first quarter, the Apache Corp. was also encouraged by its second discovery, the Sockeye 2, in the Brookian Play on the North Slope of Alaska. That’s according to CEO John Christmann, who said during his company’s first quarter earnings call report that production remained strong in the Permian Basin.
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3 weeks ago | 
oaoa.com | Bob Campbell
One of the key figures in Jesus Christ’s crucifixion was High Priest Joseph ben Caiaphas, who declared that Jesus had blasphemously claimed to be the Son of God and asked what should be done with him, to which a majority of the Sanhedrin answered, “He is worthy of death.” Historians say Caiaphas (14 B.C.-46 A.D.) was 44 years old when Jesus was brought before him and that he served another four or five years till 36 or 37 A.D. when the Roman governor, Pontius Pilate, with whom he had a close...
