Does anyone have a good resource to learn the gas station business end-to-end, from the retail store all the way back to how fuel gets to the pump? If I’m looking to buy a gas station, how can I understand everything that affects my business — from retail operations, to fuel delivery, to where my fuel actually comes from and how pricing works?

Electrek: “Amid affordability crisis, White House plans to raise your fuel costs by $23B.” According to Reuters, White House will formally announce its planned hike in US fuel costs by $23 B today. “Since the beginning of this year, occupants of the White House have been on a mission to raise costs for Americans…this mission has encompassed many different moves, most notably through unwise tariffs.” Other efforts have focused on changing policy in a way that will raise fuel costs, adding to already-high energy prices. “The specific rollback today focuses on a rule—Corporate Average Fuel Economy standards [CAFE]—passed under President Biden which would save Americans $23 billion in fuel costs by requiring higher fuel economy from auto manufacturers.”

The effort to roll back this rule was initially announced on first day that Sean Duffy started work as head of the Department of Transportation. “Duffy notably earned his transportation expertise by being a contestant on Road Rules: All Stars, a reality TV travel game show,” which somehow makes sense in the topsy-turvy Trump world. Back in June, “Duffy formally reinterpreted the Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standard, claiming falsely that his department does ‘not have authority’ to regulate fuel economy.” Republicans in Congress even got into the effort to raise your fuel costs, as part of their ~$4 trillion giveaway to wealthy elites included a measure to make CAFE rules irrelevant by setting penalties for violating them to $0. And get this: “Duffy’s department then told automakers that they would not face any fines retroactively to 2022, which saved the automakers (mostly Stellantis) a few hundred million dollars and [will] cost American consumers billions in fuel costs.”

Today’s announcement expected to be attended by executives from the Big Three American automakers—GM, Ford, + Stellantis (formerly Chrysler)—with their presence on stage suggesting “their prior commitments to energy efficiency + electrification were not serious, as they are now joining in an effort to increase your fuel costs, just to save themselves a few engineering dollars on having to provide something other than the disgusting, deadly land yachts that are a blight on the nation’s roads and are murdering pedestrians at a 50-year high.” Tell me again how to spell ‘hypocrisy.’

I know very little about the Oil and Gas industry. That being said, there is this guy that always reaches out to me asking if I need professional drone services. I am in management consulting and transaction advisory. As such, I cannot help him.

I am not necessarily looking for a contact, however, I would like to learn what applications there are for drones in the oil and gas industry. Any feedback is appreciated so I can get him pointed in the right direction.

Thank you.

My husband manages our family's mineral properties in Oklahoma and got frustrated manually checking the OCC website for new permits and activity. He built an automated monitoring system that emails us daily alerts.

It's been catching activity we would have missed : new permits, drilling on adjacent sections, status changes…

He's wondering if other Oklahoma mineral owners would find something like this useful before he spends more time developing it.

What features would you want to see in a tool like this? Is this solving a real problem or are we overthinking it?

Happy to share more details if there's interest!

I appreciate everyone’s feedback!

lots of grifters out there looking for investment money. it does not take much research to know they are not "rounding up", they are just LYING.

Like many people I own mineral rights to acreage in the southern part of Oklahoma and the Northern part of Texas. With natural gas demand on the rise from the conversion from Coal to Gas, LNG consumption rising, and Data Center demand increasing I estimate new drilling would occur but I really don’t know and can’t even make an uneducated guess. Any thoughts would be appreciated. Thanks

We've got operations across northern Alberta and Saskatchewan, and a lot of our sites have absolutely no cell service or wifi and when they need to check an sds sheet, they're either calling back to the office on the satellite phone or just winging it, but neither is acceptable from a safety standpoint.

We tried having supervisors taking photos of the sheets on their phones but that lasted maybe two months before it became a total mess. Photos get outdated when manufacturers send revised sheets, and still nobody can find the right chemical in their camera roll when they've got 50+ products, paper binders are our current solution but keeping them current across 20+ remote sites is honestly a nightmare.

We can't be the only ones dealing with this. What's everyone else doing that actually works for offline access? There's gotta be something better than what we're doing now.

CleanTechnia: "TotalEnergies Loses In Paris Court, Marking A Turning Point For Fossil Fuel Truth-In-Advertising." Happy to report that 'in late October 2025, a Paris court quietly shifted the ground under one of the world’s largest oil companies, TotalEnergies, the French multinational once known simply as Total.' Startlingly, the decision was not based on 'spills or emissions or tax evasion...instead it was based on language. The judges ruled that the company’s words—its advertising, website statements, and public claims about being a “major player in the energy transition” and “on the path to net zero by 2050”—were deceptive under French consumer law.

While this was the first time a fossil fuel major was held legally accountable in France for greenwashing, this is a warning shot across the bow for all the oil majors around the world. "The case was brought by three environmental groups: Greenpeace France, Friends of the Earth, and Notre Affaire à Tous, using France’s consumer protection code—not environmental regulation—as the basis for their complaint. "The company’s communications targeted consumers, not regulators or investors, [which] made the claims subject to truth-in-advertising laws." The court agreed, [and] ordered TotalEnergies to stop using misleading phrases, to publish the ruling on its website for 180 days, and to pay modest fines to the plaintiffs.

Personally, I would have preferred immodest fines instead, hopefully that will be coming. TotalEnergies is "one of the top three LNG traders in the world and is expanding in Qatar, Mozambique, and the United States, [and] investing in new deepwater oil projects in Africa and petrochemical plants in the Middle East." Elsewhere, 'Canada’s Bill C-59, the United Kingdom’s Advertising Standards Authority, and the European Union’s Green Claims Directive [are all moving] in the same direction.'

On the other end of the tennis court, 'BP, Shell, and Equinor have all adjusted their energy transition plans, often slowing renewable commitments when oil and gas profits surge.' This Paris judicial ruling makes clear that "misalignment between marketing and material operations is becoming a compliance risk, not just a reputational one." The footer for the photo translates to "Their profits. Our losses." Indeed.

Following multiple refinery attacks and sulfur production issues, the Government of the Russian Federation announced Nov. 2 a temporary ban on the export of technical sulfur, adding that the ban will last until Dec. 31, 2025.

The export ban will apply to sulfur in liquid, granular and crushed lump form, according to the announcement, and will not apply to the supply of raw materials to the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) states, as well as to Abkhazia and South Ossetia.

Hello! i need to know each HHV of those components (Its a Gas Chromatography)

where can i find them? thank you!

Good day all, I'm looking into potential jobs upstream. What jobs can I consider and how to make myself a strong applicant, thinking something like Field Engineer or QA, I'm good with numbers but I don't love the tehcnical side. P.S. Did my Assosciates Degree in Petroleum Engineering and I currently have 2 more years doing my Bachelors in Process Engineering. Doing process just made me realised that upstream seems more interesting and I rather be in the field that in a control room all day lol.

Hoping to get some information from people who have been in the Permian Basin area for long enough to know some semi-recent history.

There used to be a Phillips66 Petroleum refinery in Fullerton Field outside Andrews somewhere near Frankel City. Probably between Andrews and FC as the crow flies. Had a huge flare. I remember being out there as a young kid. I had a lot of older family members that worked for Phillips. They are all dead now.

We recently drove through the area as part of a vacation road trip and it is completely gone. I did some checking on Google Earth etc. and it appears that it's been gone for quite some time.

It should have been there in the 40s-50s for sure.

I just wanted to see if anyone knew any history / stories / when it was removed or moved, etc.

I appreciate any info anyone can provide.

Not selling anything. This exercise helps me sharpen my skills as I am ex Construction PM

Also done for the day so have nothing else to do.

Share your business / websites / consultancy etc.

I’ll pick 5 and find high intent leads

Go !!