North America
Chesapeake Energy adopts poison pill to block a takeover
Chesapeake Energy has adopted a poison pill shareholder rights plan to protect the company from any takeover attempts due to its low stock prices, Kallanish Energy reports. Last Thursday, the ...
Federal biological review delayed for MVP
A federal review of the under-construction Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP) and its impacts on endangered or threatened wildlife has been delayed again, Kallanish Energy reports. The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, ...
Trump administration change aids renewable projects
The Trump administration provided a major boost to developers of renewable energy, in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, Kallanish Energy reports. The U.S. Treasury Department and the Internal Revenue ...
Tesla to produce ventilators at NY solar plant
Tesla has announced that it intends to retool a solar panel factory in western New York state to manufacture medical ventilators due to the coronavirus pandemic, Kallanish Energy reports. That ...
Pointe LNG raising investment capital for La. project
A proposed liquefied natural gas facility in Louisiana that had been dormant is alive again, Kallanish Energy reports. Pointe LNG has hired Whitehall & Co. to raise investment capital and ...
Energy Transfer wants to nearly double DAPL capacity
Texas-based Energy Transfer, an owner and operator of the Dakota Access Pipeline, wants to increase the pipeline’s capacity by more than 96%, to 1.1 million barrels per day of crude, ...
Cause of refinery fire causes concern for other facilities
Safety experts and activists are asking numerous questions concerning the fire which devastated the U.S. East Coast’s largest and oldest refinery, Kallanish Energy understands. One big question is how did a ...
EOG Resources cuts $2 billion or 31% from capex budget
Texas-based EOG Resources is cutting its 2020 capital spending by $2 billion or 31%, in the wake of the spreading coronavirus and the crude oil price war ...
Ohio court dismisses FirstEnergy Solutions’ suit
The Ohio Supreme Court has dismissed a complaint filed by FirstEnergy Solutions against a proposed referendum that could have killed a $1 billion bailout for two nuclear ...
BLM withdraws acreage from Nevada O&G lease sale
The U.S. Bureau of Land Management has pulled 332,247 acres from the Nov. 12 oil and natural gas lease sale in Nevada due to a court order blocking ...