Texas just isn't prepared for these kinds of temperatures. They had natural gas pipelines freeze up. "Temperatures are low enough to trigger so-called freeze-offs, when wells shut down because of liquids freezing inside pipelines." https://www.claimsjournal.com/news/national/2021/02/12/30202...
There are plenty of technologies to drain off water and other condensates in cold temperatures. Oilfield operations are 12 month affairs in Pennsylvania, Ohio, even North Dakota and Manitoba, which are routinely much colder than Texas is right now. They have to weigh if reliability is worth the extra cost of planning for a two or three days every decade event.
There are plenty of technologies to drain off water and other condensates in cold temperatures. Oilfield operations are 12 month affairs in Pennsylvania, Ohio, even North Dakota and Manitoba, which are routinely much colder than Texas is right now. They have to weigh if reliability is worth the extra cost of planning for a two or three days every decade event.