Sabine, owned by Japanese firm Osaka Oil & Gas, will add a fourth rig on its East Texas leasehold next month, President and CEO Carl Isaac said.

The White House has called for changes to a heavily criticized system, but new rules require a lot more work.

The court that vacated Glenfarne’s Texas LNG and NextDecade’s Rio Grande LNG permits in the summer has reinstated the documents while the government amends the originals.

Technologies commonly used in oil and gas are making it cheaper to drill deep into hot reservoirs to generate geothermal power, but the oil sector could also learn from geothermal, panelists say.

Dan Ammann, Exxon Mobil’s new upstream president, is bullish on the long-term role of LNG in meeting global energy demand. He also sees advantages of scale in the Permian Basin.