Last week Pennsylvania issued 12 new shale well drilling permits with a mix of permits issued in both the southwest (wet gas) and northeast (dry gas) regions of the state. Ohio issued 7 new permits, all of them except one in the same county (Jefferson). West Virginia was a goose egg–no new permits issued last
Read More...On Monday MDN brought you the exciting news that Enbridge’s Weymouth compressor station project, the final piece of the $452 million Atlantic Bridge expansion project, has received permission from the federal Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) to begin operations “in early December” (see Weymouth, MA Compressor Station Gets Greenlight to Start Operating). We
Read More...Libya’s National Oil Corp. (NOC) said on Dec. 2 its Chairman Mustafa Sanallah and Schlumberger Ltd. CEO Olivier Le Peuch agreed on technology transfer talks to help restart the country’s oil wells and improve output. The executives met on Dec. 1, the state oil company said, without disclosing details. NOC’s output has been hit this year by attacks on oil facilities and blockades.
Read More...Sempra Energy said on Dec. 2 it would buy the remaining stake in its Mexican unit in a deal valued at $6.13 billion. The company currently owns 66.43% of Infraestructura Energética Nova SAB de CV (IEnova), according to Refinitiv Eikon data. Sempra’s all-stock offer implies a price of 82 Mexican pesos per IEnova share, a
Read More...Italy’s top energy companies Enel SpA and Eni SpA have agreed to work together on plans to supply green hydrogen to two refineries in Italy. The two pilot projects will involve building close to the Eni refineries 10-megawatt electrolyzers powered by renewable energy that will start producing hydrogen by 2022-2023. “We are interested in exploring
Read More...Here in my home of Ann Arbor, Mich., community leaders have been working to relaunch a city-owned materials recycling facility. As a college town, Ann Arbor has always been pretty strong in recycling, but there were problems with a MRF run by a private company, prompting the city to take over its own facility again.
Read More...FourPoint Energy LLC and its Western Anadarko Basin assets have been renamed Unbridled Resources LLC and merged with a subsidiary of Maverick Natural Resources, according to announcements from both companies. Over the course of several months, FourPoint has been in negotiations with its key stakeholders to reduce its debt and restructure its balance sheet.
Read More...Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … … Michael Shellenberger is the author of Apocalypse Never, a wonderful takedown of green eggs and scam schemes and schemers. Michael Shellenberger is a thinking environmentalist, an all too uncommon sort of individual in the environmental movement these days. Unlike me, he is a political progressive, with an office
Read More...A group of prominent conservation organizations plans a campaign to urge President-elect Joe Biden to use executive orders to target plastics environmental concerns, saying they see significant room for tougher use of existing laws. The coalition, which includes the Center for Biological Diversity, Greenpeace, Surfrider Foundation and 16 other founding partners, plans to issue what
Read More...Ryan Keys, president and co-founder of Houston-based Triple Crown Resources LLC, is today’s featured Forty Under 40 honoree. Keys started his career at Schlumberger Ltd. as a mechanical engineer, and though he enjoyed the work, he wanted more adventure, a desire that led him to petroleum engineering. After earning a master’s degree in that field,
Read More...What is fracking? Fracking is a slang term for hydraulic fracturing. Fracturing is a process by which highly pressurized fluid is pumped thousands of feet into the ground to fracture rock formations. The goal is to release the natural gas that’s locked inside the rock. Is it safe? What most concerns people about fracturing is
Read More...Gregory WrightstoneGeologist and author of “Inconvenient Facts” .. … [Editor’s Note: Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf is pushing a new carbon tax called RGGI onto homeowners and businesses by using fear and misinformation.] Pennsylvania’s Democrat governor, Tom Wolf, sows fear with misinformation about climate change to advance plans to add the Commonwealth to the Regional Greenhouse Gas
Read More...Longtime plastics investor Graham Partners is buying the flexible packaging converting business of Berry Global Group for an undisclosed price. The deal includes six printing and laminating flexible packaging facilities that had been part of Berry’s North American extrusion, converting and coating business. Graham of Newtown Square, Pa., will combine the Berry business with Advanced
Read More...Sunningdale Tech Ltd., a precision injection molder and toolmaker based in Singapore, now has a U.S. manufacturing base. Publicly traded Sunningdale bought Chandler, Ariz.-based Moldworx LLC on Nov. 6 for $4 million. “This marks Sunningdale’s first expansion into the U.S.,” Jim Taylor, founder and owner of Moldworx, said. Sunningdale has 18 manufacturing plants in Asia,
Read More...The U.S. PET bottle recycling rate dropped slightly in 2019, to 27.9 percent, continuing what’s been a decade of the rate hovering near 30 percent and essentially stagnating. But the head of the PET sector’s main trade group points to signs of change that could bode well, like increasing support for bottle bills, more focus
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