One of the most powerful earthquakes to strike Texas in recent history has state oil and gas regulators deploying to inspect injection wells in West Texas.
Hearings investigating the Texas blackouts began Thursday.
The international oil market experienced a brief moment of volatility this week after an attack on a Saudi Arabian oil facility.
The methane rule proposal is just the latest effort by the Trump administration to undo the regulatory policies of the Obama administration.
Texas remains the nation's leading export state, but the escalating trade war between the U.S. and China has some increasingly concerned about its impact.
