This winter, more homes in China will be heated up by natural gas as Beijing would have liked amid its push for local governments in northern China ...…
Beijing’s pollution crackdown is boosting natural gas use but stoking shortage, price rise
Halliburton reports strong revenue, profit as it fights to stay No. 2
Nearly 60 percent of Halliburton's revenue was generated in North America. ... advantage because it has invested more in natural gas development.…
Report: Without Emission Reduction Measures, Methane Will Add to Global Warming
Over the course of the last decade, the U.S. has been cooking with gas. Even more than that, it is using natural gas to heat homes, generate electricity, ...…
Natural gas pipeline blast kills worker in Stark County
Reports of the explosion came in around 10:15 a.m., and the odor of natural gas soon drifted more than 4 miles away, the newspaper reported.…
Doctor says natural gas from proposed compressor could ignite
WEYMOUTH – A local doctor working with residents fighting a proposed 7,700-horsepower natural-gas compressor station in North Weymouth said ...…
Weatherford International PLC (WFT) Debt Trading 1.9% Lower
Deutsche Bank AG began coverage on Weatherford International PLC in a ... evaluation, completion, production and intervention of oil and natural gas wells. The Company operates four segments: North America, Latin America, ...…
Why Baker Hughes’s 3Q17 Earnings Missed Estimates
The robust well construction business in North America, which was offset by lower oilfield equipment-related revenues in ... However, a deceleration in the US rig count, low natural gas prices, and a depressed subsea market led to ...…
Export Application for Liquefied Natural Gas Submitted
This LNG would be exported from the company's proposed natural gas liquefaction facility in Lafourche Parish, La., to any country with which trade is ...…
Pelham natural gas pipeline halfway done
PELHAM — Construction of a 26,000 foot natural gas line which will service commercial and residential properties throughout Pelham is halfway done ...…
Appalachian gas production cannot continue to ramp up rapidly: exec
Despite improved drilling and completion techniques such as the drilling of longer horizontal laterals, natural gas production from the Appalachian ...…
5 Stock Picks As The Electric Car Boom Accelerates
Electric vehicles (EVs) are a disruptive technology—all on their own. But the EV chain is a long one, and there are significant opportunities here in everything from batteries to artificial intelligence and semi-conductors. Our energy future is evolving rapidly, and it’s packed with EVs, massive energy storage solutions and nanotechnology. Consider this: • An amazing 1.26 million EVs were sold in 2015, 2 million were sold in 2016, and sales for this year are up 86 percent in the third quarter. • Tesla’s 35 GwH capacity……
The 5 Countries That Could Push Oil Prices Up
Oil prices appear to be stuck in the $50s per barrel, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t serious supply risks to the market. An unexpected disruption could occur at any moment, as has happened in the past, leading to a sudden and sharp jump in prices. Geopolitical tension has been largely irrelevant since the collapse of oil prices in 2014, but it’s making a return now that cracks have emerged in some key oil-producing nations. The threat of an outage will carry more weight as the oil market tightens. "The 'Fragile Five' petrostates—Iran,……
Norway Unfazed By Peak Oil Concerns
When crude oil demand will peak is anyone’s guess. Forecasts vary widely. Wood Mackenzie says that peak demand is “very real,” and sees a decline of 4 million bpd between 2020 and 2035. Other majors including BP and Total SA see peak demand as coming between 2025 and 2040, as a result of clean energy government initiatives, slower economic growth, and wider use of electric vehicles. Not everyone is that concerned with peak oil demand, however. Recently, Norway’s Energy Minister said the biggest problem……
UK On Track To Approve Construction of “Mini” Nuclear Reactors
The United Kingdom could soon give Rolls Royce and a consortium of companies the go-ahead to build “mini” nuclear power plants, according to a new report by The Telegraph. London’s Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) is due to issue a study on the matter soon, and industry sources said the Rolls Royce consortium’s plan should succeed over its competitor to win the government’s approval. A spokesman for the BEIS told The Telegraph: “We are currently considering next steps for the SMR……
LNG Glut To Continue Into 2020s, IEA Says
The world’s LNG market will continue to be oversupplied into the mid-2020s as new supplies continue to outweigh demand, according to the International Energy Agency (IEA). The IEA added that Chinese demand could tighten the market earlier than that. “We will see massive amounts of new LNG capacity coming to the market ... so we will probably continue to have well-supplied markets into the middle of the 2020s,” Keisuke Sadamori, director of energy markets and security at the IEA, said on Monday in Singapore, as quoted by Reuters.……
Permian Leads Declines As Rig Pullback Continues; U.S. Drops 15
Driven by declines in the Permian Basin and Haynesville Shale, the U.S. rig count fell by 15 for the week ended Friday, nearly doubling the already steep eight-rig loss from the week before, according to data from Baker Hughes Inc.…
Federal Court Grants West Virginia’s Motion to Scrap Mountain Valley WQC
West Virginia has officially thrown out Mountain Valley Pipeline’s Section 401 water quality certification (WQC) and will start over with a review of the project’s application after the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circui...…
NatGas Tax Back on Table in Pennsylvania As Another Bill Advances
It remains unclear if legislation to enact a severance tax on unconventional natural gas production that cleared the Pennsylvania House Finance Committee this week has enough support to pass the Republican-controlled chamber. …
FERC’s Chatterjee Calls for Shorter NatGas Pipeline Permitting Process
FERC Chairman Neil Chatterjee said he wants to see the Commission significantly reduce its review process for natural gas pipelines, and described the Department of Energy (DOE) proposal to provide reliability and resiliency compensation to coal and nuclear baseload generators as "a conversation we need to have."…
Harvey’s flooding blamed in major gasoline spill in Texas
The spill was first reported to state and federal officials on Aug. 31, but no volume was given at that time. The company next reported the spill was 1,000 barrels. In a report filed last week and released Monday, Magellan put the spill 10 times higher at 10,988 barrels.…