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Massive North Dakota oil spill not yet cleaned up – more than 3 years after occurence
Thirty-nine months after it occurred, a 20,000-barrel (Bbl) oil spill in North Dakota still isn’t fully cleaned up – and the company responsible for the accident has yet to set ...
California pipeline proposal could be in trouble
The proposal to build a 65-mile natural gas pipeline through San Bernardino County, California, to Moreno Valley could be in trouble. Sempra Energy subsidiaries Southern California Gas ...
voestalpine builds hydrogen fuel test facility at Linz
Austrian steelmaker voestalpine has joined Siemens and utility Verbund for the project “H2Future” to test the viability of using so-called “green hydrogen” as a fuel in the steelmaking ...
Nigerian rebels hit Chevron facilities
Nigerian militants have claimed an attack on Chevron-operated oil pipelines — less than two weeks after the government declared a cease-fire, and even as a worker strike further hampered efforts ...
Could Western Pennsylvania get a second cracker plant?
Could western Pennsylvania be getting a second ethane cracker plant? That possibility surfaced at an Aug. 23 public meeting in Beaver County where Royal Dutch Shell has ...
FERC rejects N.Y. tree-cutting request re: Constitution line
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has rejected a rehearing on unauthorized tree cutting associated with the $1 billion Constitution Pipeline in New York and Pennsylvania, Kallanish Energy ...
Iran’s oil production comeback could be over
Iran, which easily beat expectations for how fast it boosted crude oil exports after sanctions were lifted, now needs a massive cash injection and the easing of remaining trade barriers, ...
Arson destroys construction equipment on Dakota Access Pipeline
Federal and state agencies are investigating a $2 million fire suspected of being arson along the Dakota Access Pipeline in central Iowa, Kallanish Energy reports. The fire ...
Chile’s ENAP to explore shale gas with ConocoPhillips
Chile’s state-oil company, ENAP, signed an agreement with U.S. independent oil and gas firm ConocoPhillips to explore and potentially produce shale gas in the Magallanes region of ...
U.S. exporting shale gas to the Middle East
Since March of this year, the U.S. has been exporting liquefied natural gas, LNG, to a very unlikely region of the world: the Middle East. Two cargoes of LNG from ...