This Week’s Market Buzz

Permian oil production has plunged by as much as one million barrels a day as the coldest weather in 30 years brought havoc to a region that seldom faces frigid Arctic blasts, according to the Houston Chronicle. Oil traders and company executives, speaking on condition of anonymity, lifted their estimate of supply losses in the region as the temperature in…

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Vista Makes a Case for Oklahoma Operation

Representatives of one of the five companies already committed to mining frac sand in and around the community of Fay, Okla., told Custer County commissioners that their firm plans to be in the area where Dewey, Blaine and Custer counties come together for 35 years, so they’ll be good stewards of the land and its resources, including underground water, according…

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