Infrastructure
Shell, Chevron get waivers from steel tariffs
Shell and Chevron are the first oil and gas industry players granted waivers from President Trump’s 25% tariff on steel imports, after the administration agreed the specialty steel they were ...
Bangladesh inks deal with CHDHK to build coal-fired plant
The state-run Bangladesh Power Development Board (BPDB) has signed a joint-venture agreement with China Huadian Hong Kong Company Ltd. to build a 1,320-megawatt coal-fired power plant in ...
New York moves to end coal-fired power plants by 2020
New York Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo has unveiled plans to phase out coal entirely at New York state power plants by 2020, Kallanish Energy reports. Last week, ...
U.S. LNG exports quadrupled in 2017
U.S. liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports quadrupled in 2017, with shipments to 25 different countries, says the U.S. Energy Information Administration. The volume of shipments increased from ...
UK LNG importer seeks to widen supply sources
The UK’s busiest liquefied natural gas (LNG) import terminal, South Hook LNG, has been granted a technical modification to its network entry agreement (NEA) and will be able to expand ...
Appalachian Basin remains active for shale producers
The Appalachian Basin remains a very busy place. Nearly 2,300 drilling permits were issued in 2017 in the three-state basin, with 1,036 of those wells being spud, said energy consultant ...
PetroChina, Rosneft leave Venezuela refining projects
Chinese and Russian state oil companies PetroChina and Rosneft will not pay the costs of repairing and modernizing Venezuela’s Cardón and Amuay refineries for PDVSA, according to ...
Northeast U.S. slated for record gas line buildout in 2018
Roughly 38% of additional natural gas pipeline capacity is slated to come online in the U.S. Northeast just in 2018, according to the Energy Information Administration. By ...
N.Y. nixes natural gas pipeline expansion permit
New York State regulators have denied a permit for a pipeline expansion designed to increase natural gas deliveries to New York City, The Associated Press reports. The ...
Initial work may begin this fall on Keystone XL
TransCanada may begin preliminary work on its $8 billion Keystone XL oil pipeline project in Montana this coming autumn, with full construction in 2019, Kallanish Energy reports. That ...