Russell Gold

Jan 23, 2025 | texasmonthly.com | Russell Gold |Jason Heid

The oilman who brought the Permian Basin back from the dead was eating a Chick-fil-A salad and feeling persecuted. There were countless things Scott Sheffield would rather have been doing than lunching with his lawyer. Like playing tennis, or teaching one of his eleven grandchildren to fly-fish at his New Mexico ranch. Or attending a meeting of the Exxon board of directors, using the wisdom he’d collected over four decades as a chief executive to help guide the energy giant.

Jan 23, 2025 | flipboard.com | Russell Gold

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Jan 14, 2025 | texasmonthly.com | Russell Gold |Jason Heid

Governor Greg Abbott recently made a bold prediction about how Texas stands to benefit once the Trump administration takes power next week—and presumably begins cutting regulations left and right. While Paris, Texas, might not overtake Paris, France, as a global metropolis anytime soon, the Lone Star State, he said, would soon surpass France as the world’s seventh-largest economy. We’ve got more than a little work to do to make that a reality.

Nov 20, 2024 | texasmonthly.com | Russell Gold |Jason Heid

If an airplane hadn’t skidded off the runway at the old Sloulin Field International Airport in Williston, North Dakota, I wouldn’t have stumbled on Liberty Resources’ innovative drilling approach. And I wouldn’t have found myself on the phone with Liberty’s chief executive, Chris Wright, whom Donald Trump has nominated for secretary of energy. The minor aviation mishap shut down the airport, diverting my flight from Houston to Minot, two hours to the east of Williston.

Nov 14, 2024 | texasmonthly.com | Russell Gold |Jason Heid

I am standing atop an eighty-foot-tall synthetic lung made of metal and plastic. In its scale and ambition, it’s unlike anything else in Texas, or the Western Hemisphere, for that matter. Its existence leads me to feel something rare in the world of energy and climate: optimism. The machine is a key component of Occidental Petroleum’s nearly complete $1.3 billion direct air capture facility called Stratos.