• West Texas Intermediate Crude
• Natural Gas Price (Henry Hub)
• U.S. Rig Count
• Regional Rig Count
  • Texas
  • Louisiana
  • New Mexico
• Well Permits
  • Texas
  • Louisiana
• Energy Information Administration (EIA)
• Railroad Commission of Texas

To learn more about how to use data, see DataBasics

• Quarterly Energy Update

• Oil Exploration Booms—Is Houston Next? Houston Business, March 2006.

• Do Higher Oil Prices Still Benefit Texas? The Face of Texas: Jobs, People, Business, Change, Oct. 2005.
• Unconventional Natural Gas Drives New Mexico Rig Count, Crossroads, 2005, Issue 1.
• Texas Drilling Directed Toward Unconventional Natural Gas, Houston Business, June 2005.
• Concentration of Energy Production and Processing on the Gulf Coast, Houston Business, Dec. 2005.

• Slow Recovery for Houston: Better Late than Never, Houston Business, Sept. 2004.
• Strong Growth, Fear Driving Energy Markets, Houston Business, Houston Business, June 2004.
• The Effect of High Oil Prices on Today's Texas Economy, Southwest Economy, Sept. 2004.
• Do Energy Prices Threaten the Recovery? Southwest Economy, May 2004.

• Is There Life After Oil in Midland and Odessa? Houston Business, Sept. 2003.

• Houston in 1900: Part 2. Houston and the Texas Oil Industry, Houston Business, July 2002.
• Gulf Coast Expansion Waits for Upstream, Downstream Energy, Houston Business, April 2002.

• Petrochemical Outlook Still Bleak for 2002, Houston Business, Nov. 2001.
• National Slowdown Hits Texas, Houston Business, Sept. 2001.
• Houston 2001: A Half-Empty Glass? Houston Business, Aug. 2001.
• Where are the Oil Jobs? Houston Business, May 2001

• Diversification of Houston's Economic Base, Houston Business, Sept. 2000.
• High Oil Prices Boost Houston's Job Growth, Improve Local Outlook, Dec. 2000.
• Texas Rides Oil and Technology to New Highs, Houston Business, Nov. 2000.
• Oil and the Houston Economy Today, Houston Business, Jan. 2000.

• What's Driving Gasoline Prices?Economic Letter, Oct. 2007
  
• What Drives Natural Gas Prices, Research Dept. Working Paper 0703
• Running on Empty? How Economic Freedom Affects Oil Supplies, Economic Letter, April 2006.
• "On the Record: Making Sense of High Energy Prices," Southwest Economy, July/August 2006.
• "Running on Empty? How Economic Freedom Affects Oil Supplies," Economic Letter, April 2006.
• "Noteworthy: Natural Gas: After a Big Price Jump, Falling Back to Reality," Southwest Economy, January/February 2006.

• Natural Gas Pricing: Do Oil Prices Still Matter? Southwest Economy, July 2005
• Upstream Petroleum Employment in the Current Drilling Cycle, Houston Business, April 2005.

• "Terms of Trade and OECD Policies to Mitigate Global Climate Change," Economic and Financial Policy Review, 2(1), 2003.

• Petrochemicals and Natural Gas Prices: Short-Term Pain, Long-Term Concern, Houston Business, Jan. 2001.

• Do Rising Oil Prices Threaten Economic Prosperity? Southwest Economy, Nov. 2000.
• Urban Oil Consolidation: An Update, Houston Business, August 2000.
• Oil Prices and the Economy, Southwest Economy, July 2000.
• The Wheel Turns Again: Lessons from the Latest Oil Cycle, Houston Business, June 2000.  

• Oil Prices and U.S. Aggregate Economic Activity: A Question of Neutrality, Economic and Financial Review, Second Quarter 1999.

• "Energy Security and Global Climate Change Mitigation," [abstract] Stephen P. A.
  Brown and Hillard G. Huntington, Energy Policy, 32(6), 2004.
• "Oil Price Shocks and the U.S. Economy: Where Does the Asymmetry
  Originate?" [abstract] Nathan S. Balke, Stephen P. A. Brown and Mine K. Yücel,The
  Energy Journal 23(3), Third Quarter 2002.
• "Energy Prices and Aggregate Economic Activity: An Interpretative Survey," [abstract]
  Stephen P. A. Brown and Mine K. Yücel, Quarterly Review of Economics and
  Finance, 42(2), Second Quarter 2002.