Iraq is planning a $53 billion megaproject with global energy giants ExxonMobil and PetroChina to use seawater from the Persian Gulf to boost oil production, Iraqi prime minister Adel Abdul-Mahdi announced Tuesday, Kallanish Energy finds. The project would boost output from Iraq’s southern oilfields, and includes plans to capture natural gas, which is currently being
Read More...Crude oil prices dropped Tuesday as renewed doubts of a U.S.-China trade pact stoked concerns over global growth, while U.S. sanctions on Iran and Venezuela tightened supply and helped to curtail losses, Kallanish Energy reports. President Trump Sunday said he would raise tariffs on $200 billion worth of Chinese goods from 10-25% by Friday. The comments
Read More...Gibraltar on Monday opened a liquefied natural gas regasification terminal, moving the British territory away from diesel-fuel power, Kallanish Energy reports. The project comes as part of Gibraltar’s effort to power its homes and businesses with cleaner energy. The 80-megawatt power plant was built by Anglo-Dutch giant Shell and its fully owned subsidiary Gasnor, which is also
Read More...Tennessee Gas Pipeline Co., a subsidiary of Houston-based pipeline operator Kinder Morgan, recently struck a new deal with a utility company that will allow it to supply more natural gas to upstate New York, according to the Houston Chronicle. The company signed a new natural gas supply agreement with Con Edison that will allow the
Read More...For more than a year, a cul-de-sac in Chester County, Pennsylvania has been plagued by sinkholes and construction mishaps related to the Mariner East pipeline project, according to The Philadelphia Inquirer. Last month the company purchased two of these Lisa Drive homes for $400,000 apiece. The Mariner East 1 was shut down in March 2018
Read More...Occidental Petroleum, continues to tinker with its offer to buy Anadarko Petroleum, late Sunday putting a revised bid in front of the independent producer, offering mostly cash as it looks to wrest its prey from Chevron, Kallanish Energy reports. Oxy is still offering to buy Anadarko for $76 a share, but would now pay 78% in
Read More...Iran’s oil minister last week warned Opec is “likely to collapse” because some members of the 14-nation group are working against their fellow producers, Kallanish Energy learns. It’s not hard to figure out the comments referred to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. When U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo first announced sanction waivers
Read More...Crude oil prices inched up Friday, as strong U.S. economic data boosted demand feelings, and as production drops in sanctions-hit Iran and Venezuela tightened the market, Kallanish Energy reports. Oil futures posted weekly declines on a jump in U.S. crude inventories reported recently. U.S. West Texas Intermediate crude futures settled 13 cents higher, at $61.94 per
Read More...In January, CNX was fracking the Shaw 1G well when it lost pressure in the hole and subsequently discovered pressure spikes in nine conventional wells in Westmoreland County, Pa., according to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. The affected wells had to be flared for days, while CNX brought the Shaw 1G well under control. After months of
Read More...Oil supermajor Chevron’s Chevron U.S.A. unit said it’s completed the $350 million buy from Petrobras America of all outstanding shares and equity interests of Pasadena Refining System (Prsi) and Prsi Trading, Kallanish Energy reports. Prsi’s 466-acre complex in Pasadena, Texas (near Houston), adds a second refinery to Chevron USA’s Gulf Coast downstream business, which also
Read More...The Goose Creek Wind Project, which would include up to 120 turbines producing as much as 200 megawatts of power in northern Piatt County, Illinois, has been proposed by Virginia-based Apex Clean Energy, Kallanish Energy reports. Apex hopes to have the wind farm project online by the end of 2021, the Piatt County Journal-Republican newspaper
Read More...The North Dakota Public Service Commission this week approved a siting permit for a $125 million, 77-mile natural gas liquids pipeline in northwest North Dakota, Kallanish Energy learns. Oneok Bakken Pipeline LLC received a permit to construct a pipeline starting at the Demicks Lake natural gas processing plant in McKenzie County, North Dakota, extending southwest
Read More...Tallgrass Energy Wednesday announced the Hereford Project, roughly 30 miles of new pipeline, plus expanded capacity on the Pony Express system, Kallanish Energy reports. The new project is designed to support crude oil production in northern Weld County, Colorado, near the Wyoming-Colorado border. Sufficient interest arose during Pony Express’ existing open season for expansion capacity from
Read More...Oilfield services firm Baker Hughes, a GE company, delivered what chairman and CEO Lorenzo Simonelli called a “solid” first quarter, due to stabilizing global oil and natural gas markets, Kallanish Energy reports. “The U.S. rig count dropped slightly less than expected, and international activity remained steady; the LNG market is very active,” Simonelli said. During
Read More...Crude oil prices slipped Wednesday after U.S. crude inventories soared to their highest point in 19 months, as production set a record, Kallanish Energy reports. The declines were somewhat tempered by the intensifying crisis in Venezuela and Washington’s stopping Iranian oil sanction waivers as of Wednesday, with the fall in the global Brent benchmark more
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