Texas Oil & Gas Regulator: 'Welcome to Texas, We're Glad to Have You'

SUGAR LAND, TEXAS--February 2, 2021--Written by John Egan for Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas)--For oil and gas producers and pipeline developers concerned about the Biden administration's early moves to more tightly regulate and restrict their business, the chairwoman of the Texas agency that regulates oil & gas drilling has a countervailing message: Come to Texas. Speaking on a late-January virtual executive oil conference on the Permian Basin organized by Hart Energy (Houston, Texas), Christi Craddick, chair of the Texas Railroad Commission (RRC) (Austin, Texas), said only 5% of Texas' land was federal land.