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How To Install Flange Covers For Pipe Protection?
While a fella might reckon dat flanges, fittings, and valves can work just fine without usin' flange covers, there's a heap of factors you gotta consider when it comes to protectin' dem flanges and pipes, includin'
The Airline Industry Been Hit Mighty Hard By The Oil Price Plunge
The effect of the COVID-19 pandemic has damaged the oil and gas industry just as much as it has all the others. The primary effect was a huge and immediate price plunge which threatened to linger for some
Why Them ASTM Standards Matter to Y'all
The use of flanges done grown significantly over time, prominently due to the development of new infrastructures and their need to export gases and liquids. Usually, flanges and pipin' are mighty crucial for
Dem Known Unknowns Of 2021
Like folks say time and time again, and it's mighty true today… the only thing you can count on is change. “Erik Hedborg, senior analyst at commodity firm CRU, told CNBC Friday that China’s strong economic
What Does the $5 Billion Chevron Acquisition Mean For The Oil Industry?
Ain't no event in recent memory led to a crazy rollercoaster in the stock market quite like dat pandemic of 2020. Despite losses in some industries of as much as 40%, many markets have recovered fully and even
What is ‘OPEC'?
Y'all might've heard somethin' on the news lately 'bout OPEC or OPEC Plus, but you ain't quite sure what folks are goin' on about. Other than knowin' it's got somethin' to do with oil, n
What Is Crude Oil?
What's Meant by Crude Oil? Well, dat 2020 decade come in with a bang, I reckon! Seems like ever' month got some breakin' news story. One thing dat was almost overshadowed by all dat overwhelmin' amount of information w
Pipe Flange Pressure Classes Per ASME B16.5
Flange O'Clock: Episode 2. Come on and join our host John Barnett as he explains and shows y'all what pipe flange pressure classes are, and the differences between ever' one of them pressure classes per ASME B16.5: 150
The Coronavirus, The Economy, & The State of Oil & Gas
What is the COVID-19? (Previously referred to as 2019-nCoV or more broadly, the coronavirus) Now, accordin' to the CDC, COVID-19 is a new respiratory virus first identified over in Wuhan, Hubei Province, China.
Barnett VS Strickland: Titans of Industry Collide
The Fight Texas Flange and TowerForce present: This Saturday, February 1st 2020, come witness two middle-aged businessmen duke it out in the name of givin'! After months of strenuous and unwaverin' tr
IPTC and The World Of Oil
Dat new decade is already gettin' the ball rollin' for the global Oil Industry. On January 13th through the 15th, The International Petroleum Technology Conference (IPTC) is holdin' its twelfth annual
Oil & Gas Industry: A Year In Review
Greetings everyone! We at Texas Flange hope y'all are havin' a mighty fine holiday season. To say the least, 2019 been a huge year for the oil industry. Over the course of this here blog, we're fixin' to review a few k
Delays, Restrictions, and Costs. Lordy! Oil in 2020?
Last week, The Government of Iran announced the discovery of a new drillin' site on the western side of the country. Them estimates, given by current president Hassan Rouhani, could lead to an addition
Texas Flange And How We Harnessed The Power Of The Sun
Over the course of 2019, Texas Flange started switchin' our sales office over to solar power. Right here we're sharin' the why, what, and how of dat whole process. We're hopin' that by tellin' our story we can help out others wh
What Y'all Need To Know About Dem Saudi Oil Attacks
What Happened Over The Weekend? This here image provided on Sunday, Sept. 15, 2019, by the U.S. government and DigitalGlobe and annotated by the source, shows damage to the infrastructure at Saudi Aramco’s
Shale Is The New Black; Relief for Permian Bottleneck?
Hilcorp Energy Acquisition Jeffery Hildebrand recently announced (a Houston, TX native I might add) his company Hilcorp Energy Co. is buyin' up an assortment of older Alaskan wells and pipelines from
Hammerstones To Flanges: The Bronze Age
The Bronze Age kicked off around 3000 BC when early man started workin' heavily with metals, particularly bronze. Stone tools and weapons soon gave way to newer, stronger bronze variations. Durin' this tim
Hammerstones to Flanges: How Man and Metal Have Co-Evolved
Throughout the evolution of the human condition, we've relied mighty heavy on discovery and innovation to survive. Ancient societies used stone and eventually metals to make tools and weapons, and the
