Shell has completed its previously announced acquisition to buy a 609-megawatt combined cycle gas turbine power plant in Rhode Island from RISEC Holdings. This post appeared first on Hart Energy.
Read More...Here is a look at some of this week’s renewable energy news, including a bright outlook for solar power capacity additions in the U.S. This post appeared first on Hart Energy.
Read More...Ares Management’s Potomac Energy Center, sited in Virginia near more than 130 data centers, is expected to see “significant further growth,” Blackstone Energy Transition Partners said. This post appeared first on Hart Energy.
Read More...Chevron Corp.’s newest plant at Kazakhstan’s Tengiz Field is expected to ramp up output to 1 MMboe/d. This post appeared first on Hart Energy.
Read More...Autonomous trucks developed by Kodiak Robotics delivered sand, off-road, for Atlas Energy Solutions’ Permian operations beginning in December. This post appeared first on Hart Energy.
Read More...The oil and gas rig count fell by four to 576 in the week to Jan. 24. Baker Hughes said this week’s decline puts the total rig count down 45, or 7% below this time last year. This post appeared first on Hart Energy.
Read More...A joint venture in the Beetalo Basin between Tamboran Resources Corp. and Falcon Oil & Gas could expand a strategic development spanning 4.52 million acres, Falcon said. This post appeared first on Hart Energy.
Read More...Here is a roundup of marketed oil and gas interests in the Delaware Basin, Midcontinent and Bakken from select sellers. This post appeared first on Hart Energy.
Read More...At their worst, Trump’s new energy policies could restrict the movement of global commerce and at their best increase interest rates and costs. This post appeared first on Hart Energy.
Read More...Wow! Is this the Trump effect? For the week of Jan 13 – 19, permits issued in the Marcellus/Utica to drill new shale wells achieved levels we haven’t seen in, oh, about four years. There were 41 new permits issued last week, up significantly from 27 issued the week before and 30 issued two weeks…
Read More...The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) stopped publishing its monthly Drilling Productivity Report (DPR) last June (see Biden EIA Dumps Detailed Monthly U.S. Shale Drilling Report). Since then, we’ve included some of the missing DPR data when we report on the EIA’s monthly Short-Term Energy Outlook (STEO). However, one of the metrics we used to…
Read More...In December, PA’s Democrat Governor, Josh Shapiro, filed a complaint with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) alleging the PJM electric grid is being mismanaged and using inflated numbers that will cause economic pain for the 65 million customers who buy electricity in the PJM region—in particular the residents of PA. What’s causing the high…
Read More...President Donald J. Trump, with the sweep of his pen, canceled the cancel culture that has been deeply embedded in the federal government, attempting (under the banner of alleged racism called “environment justice”) to end fossil energy infrastructure projects like pipelines. In an executive order on his first day in office, Trump terminated all so-called…
Read More...In May 2023, the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) proposed a new rule that would slap onerous and very expensive new requirements on pretty much all natural gas pipelines in the country, including 2.7 million miles of gas transmission, distribution, and gathering pipelines; 400+ underground natural gas storage facilities; and 165 liquefied natural…
Read More...As Joan Rivers used to say: Can we talk? In other words, can we have an honest and open conversation…about hydrogen energy? There’s a lot of hype around the topic of hydrogen. Some promising early innovations around hydrogen and its use in applications like gas-fired power plants exist. However, as a sobering new commentary by…
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