Episode 4: 2024 Texas Primary Elections

02/21/24 • 36 min

In this episode, TXOGA President Todd Staples and Shana Joyce, Director of Government and Regulatory Affairs, highlight the start of early voting for the March 2024 Primary Election and how to participate in the political process. In addition, they discuss election trends, the political landscape, and why it’s important to vote and support pro-energy candidates and policies.

Also in this episode, TXOGA Chief Economist Dean Foreman, Ph.D, presents his “Foreman’s Four” where he highlights four items about energy and economics that everyone should know.
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TXOGA: Texas Election Trends (2008-2023)

TXOGA: Important 2024 Election Dates

TXOGA PAC: TXOGA PAC

VoteTexas.gov: VoteTexas.gov

Who Represents Me: Who Represents Me

TXOGA: Important 2024 Election Dates

TXOGA PAC: TXOGA PAC

VoteTexas.gov: VoteTexas.gov

Who Represents Me: Who Represents Me

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Episode 3: The Four P’s

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.

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Episode 5: Winter Ready and Natural Gas Overview

In this episode, TXOGA President Todd Staples, Director of Government & Regulatory Affairs Shana Joyce and Chief Economist Dr. Dean Foreman discuss industry’s preparations and protocols for winter weather, plus the importance of natural gas in supporting the state’s electric grid and an overview of how natural gas markets work.
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TXOGA: Natural Gas Facts

TXOGA: Winter Ready

TXOGA: A post Winter Storm Heather analysis by TXOGA found the state’s electric grid was largely supported by natural gas. Together, all thermal sources including natural gas accounted for nearly 95% of electricity on the grid during the peak demand period, with weather-dependent sources providing 3% and battery storage 1%.

Reuters: In January 2024, North Dakota production across the Bakken Shale fell by half, largely due to extreme cold weather.