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Old 12-16-2016, 11:25 PM
 
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Sure, right after we finish the moon colonies
In the sixties, they were predicting that we would all be flying in helicopters by now. If only they could build a robot to engineer a perfect air bag for cars.
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Old 12-16-2016, 11:32 PM
 
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The OP imo heard no such thing, he is making that part of the story up to sensationalize the thread. He has refused to identify the source of this alleged report after repeated request to do so. It's time to stop feeding his mischief, me included..
I've still got the coffee stain on my shirt to prove how shocked I was at the news of this relocation. You know, BP is a big deal. They are one of only a few energy majors in the world with the resources to poison the whole ocean.

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Old 12-16-2016, 11:55 PM
 
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Lol, agreed, take this menace to school please. These ridiculous Dallas Houston haters have gone insane hoping, literally praying to the devil that Houston will somehow fail. All that has gotten Dallas over the years is a fall to 3rd-largest city in Texas, and a fall to 9th-largest nationally.

Instead of trolling in the Houston threads about a minor BP move, they should be more concerned about Dallas, which is on the brink of bankruptcy, and the survival of their beloved Dallas-based cash-strapped financially crippled Neiman Marcus, which could go belly-up any moment if they don't find a buyer for that old dinosaur of a retailer.

Houston is the capital of OG/Energy. BP's move of 200 ppl out of 2.5million is negligible, at best. When it comes to OG/Energy, Houston is still king.

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I am not trolling. I don't even know what that means and I don't think anyone does. I wasn't questioning Houston's economic status as a miracle in the opening post either. If only it could maintain that miraculous level also during the times it goes through bust cycles! At least you can now appreciate how all those poor souls felt on the unsinkable titanic.
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Old 12-17-2016, 06:04 AM
 
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Just how many major financial centers are there in this nation other than New York, Charlotte, Boston, Chicago, and...? Just how many major fashion centers are there in this nation other than New York, LA, Miami, San Francisco, Chicago, and...? But we do know that Houston is the capital of OG...not Dallas, not Denver, not ever.
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Old 12-17-2016, 06:18 AM
 
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I am not trolling. I don't even know what that means and I don't think anyone does. I wasn't questioning Houston's economic status as a miracle in the opening post either. If only it could maintain that miraculous level also during the times it goes through bust cycles! At least you can now appreciate how all those poor souls felt on the unsinkable titanic.
Lol, keep trying. But it has maintained quite nicely this time, and has relatively skated through this down cycle because it's twice the size it was in the 80's and eons more diversified. The 80's was a very bad crash, this was just a bad fender-bender...but traffic is headed back to normal. And if Houston were ever the titanic, we would go down dressed-to-the-nines in our fabulously gawdy costumes we got at the Neiman Marcus going-out-of-business sale. What will happen first: the Dallas bankruptcy, or their Neiman Marcus going belly-up? All Aboard...Last Call!
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Old 12-17-2016, 07:18 AM
 
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Indeed, no one is arguing that point. I was reading that the majors arrived late to the party regarding fracking. So, it is logical to assume that a lot of their resources are going to migrate elsewhere from Houston regarding that business. Just how many major energy centers are there in this nation other than Houston, Denver, Midland-Odessa, Fort Worth, New Orleans, and . . .?
Some majors did miss the land fracking boom. ExxonMobil largely missed it so they bought XTO to get into it in a major way. I'm retired now but last I heard XTO operation was staying in Ft Worth not moving to Houston.

On major energy centers, I would put it this way. There is Houston and a number of small energy cities. Those you listed along with OKC, Tulsa, Dallas, and a few other cities with one off HQ's of mid sized oil and gas companies would be the ones I list. An example of a one off is Valero HQ in San Antonio and a few other one offs like them.
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Old 12-17-2016, 09:49 AM
 
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Some majors did miss the land fracking boom. ExxonMobil largely missed it so they bought XTO to get into it in a major way. I'm retired now but last I heard XTO operation was staying in Ft Worth not moving to Houston.

On major energy centers, I would put it this way. There is Houston and a number of small energy cities. Those you listed along with OKC, Tulsa, Dallas, and a few other cities with one off HQ's of mid sized oil and gas companies would be the ones I list. An example of a one off is Valero HQ in San Antonio and a few other one offs like them.
Exactly. I am just arguing that energy resources are going to start relocating away from Houston back towards the nations interior as our nation continues its transition from being a major importer of energy to that of a major exporter of it. I think BP is the first company to make the move.

You know, the banks did not go out of business this time, but they still hurt Houston. They did so by suspending the same regulations for Houston that were maintained in other parts of the country. This allowed too much development to be built on speculation.

And this could be the start of a long flat economic period in Houston because of the transition I mention above pertaining to our nation transitioning over from major importer to exporter of energy.
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Old 12-17-2016, 10:01 AM
 
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I've still got the coffee stain on my shirt to prove how shocked I was at the news of this relocation. You know, BP is a big deal. They are one of only a few energy majors in the world with the resources to poison the whole ocean.
Right, and what station was it you were watching when you heard somebody from BP say that Denver was going to be the "New Energy Capital" ?


I cannot believe that you are being allowed to run wild like this on this forum, who else thinks it's time to close this thread ?
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Old 12-17-2016, 10:17 AM
 
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I will say that the Texas Standard radio show announced the news in a kind of startling way, but by the end of their segment, it was clear that it wasn't that big a deal. I think the OP is clearly embellishing.
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Old 12-17-2016, 10:37 AM
 
Location: plano
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Op is confused and confusing himself. ExxonMobil didn't move XTO to FW. It's was already there. They left it there to avoid the mindset they had to sell out of US land based production and miss this whole shift in domestic production due to advanced fracking. It had nothing to do with houston or FW specifically. OP trolling is trying to make a story where none exists, this is what you are doing with my facts.
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