Unconventionals
Shell completes divestment of Canadian oil sands assets 🔓
Royal Dutch Shell said Wednesday it completed the $9.45 billion sale via three Canadian units and two deals of all its Canadian in-situ (in-ground) and undeveloped oil ...
U.S. natural gas exports to Mexico continue growing
U.S. pipeline exports of natural gas continued to grow in 2016, having doubled since 2009, the Energy Information Administration reports. Most of the growth is attributable to ...
OPEC output climbed 173,000 BPD in July 🔓
Total crude oil production from the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries increased 173,000 barrels per day (BPD) in July from June, to average 32.87 million barrels per ...
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 ...
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 ...
Port Arthur LNG files to build TX liquefaction/export complex
Sempra Energy said Tuesday its liquefied natural gas (LNG) subsidiaries have filed applications with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to site, construct and operate the Port Arthur LNG natural ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...