Conservation groups recently filed a notice of intent to sue President Donald Trump over the executive order he made on June 4, which directed federal agencies to fast-track pipelines, oil and gas drilling and other infrastructure projects, according to Kallanish Energy. The Center for Biological Diversity filed the notice of the potential lawsuit, which will
Read More...Natalie DeCarioExternal Affairs Coordinator, Cabot Oil & Gas … … [Editor Comment: Personal Protective Equipment or PPE is what protects health care workers and emergency workers during the pandemic and it begins with natural gas.] Looking at the global pandemic that impacted millions over the past few months, N95 masks and other personal protective equipment (PPE)
Read More...Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … … Readers pass along a lot of stuff every week about natural gas, fractivist antics, emissions, renewables, and other news relating to energy. As usual, emphasis is added. Can The United States Senate Stop Germany’s GasPipeline From Russia In A Post-Coronavirus World? Dan Markind compares the self-imposed German energy
Read More...Canadians are consuming more, but producing less natural gas in recent years, according to a recent analysis of U.S. Energy Information Administration data conducted by the Canadian Energy Centre. Canadian energy demand, due in-large part to the country’s geographical location and harsh winters, drastically varies throughout the year. The need to provide power and heat
Read More...The Democratic Senate primary in Colorado heated up this week with two debates between former Gov. John Hickenlooper and former State House Speaker Andrew Romanoff. Unfortunately, each candidate was only asked one question apiece both nights on energy. Hickenlooper, who supported the industry while governor, discussed a “fast” transition away from “carbon-based energy” like oil
Read More...EXCO Resources has selected Edge LNG to capture and liquefy natural gas from a stranded Marcellus Shale well, according to World Oil. Edge LNG will have its mobile LNG equipment delivered by truck to the Marcellus site. The company will then produce the LNG and purchase it from EXCO Resources. Next, the LNG will be
Read More...Natural gas prices have suffered due to disrupted demand caused by the global economic shutdown brought on by COVID-19, according to Investment U. U.S. natural gas consumption is expected to decrease 3.9% year-over-year to 81.9 billion cubic feet per day in 2020, according to the Energy Information Administration. One of the reasons for this drop
Read More...“Keep It In The Ground” activist group Colorado Rising recently announced that it is abandoning its campaign to put costly new anti-oil and natural gas initiatives up for a vote in November after admitting it couldn’t gather enough signatures to qualify for the ballot. As Reuters reported: “A Colorado environmental group dropped plans to place
Read More...President Donald Trump signed an executive order that waives requirements as part of the Endangered Species Act and the National Environmental Policy Act for new mines and pipelines, using an “emergency” declaration, according to OilPrice.com. Trump sited the economic emergency stemming from the fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic as a need for the executive order.
Read More...News Briefs × Thailand’s PTT Global Chemical sets new FID deadline by March 2021 Thailand-based PTT Global Chemical’s Final Investment Decision (FID) on whether to build an ethylene-polyethylene complex in Belmont County, Ohio will be announced by the end of March 2021, PTTGC America said on June 1, 2020. “While the pandemic has prevented us
Read More...Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … … Readers pass along a lot of stuff every week about natural gas, fractivist antics, emissions, renewables, and other news relating to energy. As usual, emphasis is added. Will Southeast PA Get Its Comeuppance? Southeast Pennsylvania might as well be another country as far as the rest of the
Read More...An investigation conducted by the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment has once again shown that the air quality is safe around a local school in Greeley and nearby oil and natural gas wellsite. The Denver Post reported on CDPHE’s findings from its third round of air sampling at that location: “An investigation into
Read More...Norwegian state-oil company Equinor ASA said June 5 it was shutting in production on its Titan platform in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico (GoM) while other producers evacuated workers ahead of Tropical Storm Cristobal. Cristobal had weakened to a tropical depression while over land in Mexico but returned to tropical storm strength as it approached
Read More...The GPA Midstream Association and affiliated midstream suppliers association GPSA recently unveiled their 2020-21 officers and new board members elected to lead the respective organizations. GPA Midstream is a trade association, which represents more than 70 corporate members of all sizes in the midstream energy sector. The Tulsa, Okla.-based group elects its officers for one-year
Read More...A Chevron Corp. crude oil cargo has become embroiled in U.S. sanctions on shipping companies for violating restrictions on doing business with Venezuela, the company confirmed on June 5. Adamant Maritime Ltd., owner of very large crude-oil carrier (VLCC) Seahero was sanctioned by the U.S. Department of Treasury on June 2 for carrying a Venezuelan
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