- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- August 21, 2019
3.7 magnitude earthquake shakes parts of Oklahoma
No injuries were reported after a 3.7 magnitude earthquake was recorded in eastern Oklahoma Sunday, Kallanish Energy learns. The U.S. Geological Society (Usgs) said the earthquake was reported at 4:07 a.m.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- August 21, 2019
Judge to decide if Fes can emerge from Chapter 11
A federal court hearing that could result in FirstEnergy Solutions emerging from bankruptcy is expected to wrap up late Wednesday, Kallanish Energy learns.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- August 20, 2019
Elevate inks gas gathering/treating pact with Sabine
Elevate Midstream Partners said Monday it’s entered into an eight-year natural gas gathering and treating agreement with Sabine Oil and Gas, a Haynesville Shale producer in East Texas’ Harrison and Panola counties, Kallanish Energy reports.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- August 20, 2019
Natgas deliveries to US LNG export facilities set record
Natural gas deliveries to U.S. facilities producing liquefied natural gas (LNG) for export set a monthly record in July, averaging 6.0 billion cubic feet per day (Bcf/d) — 7% of the total U.S.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- August 20, 2019
Shell cracker workers paid to listen to Trump speech: report
Union workers at Shell’s ethane cracker complex under construction in Beaver County, Pennsylvania, were required to attend President Trump’s speech at the facility a week ago, or stay home and not be paid, according to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette newspaper.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- August 19, 2019
EQM stops work on portion of Mountain Valley line
EQM Midstream Partners told the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission via letter last week the company would stop some work on the Mountain Valley natural gas pipeline in West Virginia and Virginia, as the U.S.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- August 19, 2019
Annual US refinery runs projected to fall for 1st time in decade
U.S. gross inputs to refineries, aka, refinery runs, have increased each year since 2009, most recently reaching a record high of 17.3 million barrels per day (Mmbpd) in 2018, Kallanish Energy reports.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- August 18, 2019
Stored working gas total still climbing
The volume of working gas injected into storage in the latest Energy Information Administration’s weekly survey rose less than 2% from the previous week, Kallanish Energy calculates.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- August 16, 2019
PG&E names industry vet Vesey as utility head
Holding company PG&E Corp., operating under bankruptcy court protection, said the board of its Pacific Gas and Electric Co. unit (also in bankruptcy), has appointed Andrew M.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- August 16, 2019
Citgo selects Carlos E. Jorda as CEO
Citgo Petroleum’s board has selected Carlos E. Jorda as its chief executive, selecting a veteran refinery expert and native Venezuelan to run a company facing legal attacks and working under U.S.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- August 16, 2019
E.ON announces 440 MW South Texas wind farm
Renewable energy giant E.ON said Thursday its largest, single-phase project, the $500 million, 440-megawatt onshore wind farm, Big Raymond, will be built in Texas’ Willacy, Cameron and Hidalgo counties, Kallanish Energy reports.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- August 15, 2019
Inter Pipeline announces new oil line project
Canada-based Inter Pipeline Ltd. announced it’s received sufficient shipper support for construction of a $100 million pipeline connection between its Bow River and Central Alberta pipeline systems in western Canada, Kallanish Energy reports.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- August 15, 2019
Pef Black Bay Energy partnering with Tops
Texas-based private equity firm (Pef) Black Bay Energy Capital said Wednesday’s it’s partnering with, and has invested in, Total Operations and Production Services (Tops), Kallanish Energy reports.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- August 14, 2019
Trump claims credit for cracker plant during PA visit
President Trump boasted Tuesday afternoon about his administration’s efforts to “revive” the nation’s energy and manufacturing sectors during a visit to Royal Dutch Shell’s ethane cracker plant construction site in Beaver County, Pennsylvania.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- August 14, 2019
New lawsuit filed over Mountain Valley Pipeline
Conservation groups have filed a new lawsuit aimed at the Mountain Valley Pipeline over its impacts on threatened and endangered species, The Associated Press reported.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- August 14, 2019
Trump administration upsets offshore wind plans
The Trump administration has ordered a major environmental review of the growing offshore wind industry – a review that some experts see as derailing the nation’s first major project and raises questions concerning future developments, Kallanish Energy learns.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- August 13, 2019
LNG Canada project to ship gas to Asia as early as 2024
A C$40 billion ($30 billion) liquefied natural gas export project in British Columbia led by Royal Dutch Shell (40% share) is on track to start exporting LNG to Asia as early as 2024, having received a significant financial boost from Canada’s federal government.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- August 13, 2019
Sierra Club, others oppose West Virginia Ctl plant
Some environmental groups are hoping the West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection (Dep) will stop a proposed Mason County coal-to-liquids plant project.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- August 12, 2019
Pg&e evaluating proposal from hedge funds
Holding company Pg&e Corp. said Friday it’s evaluating a proposal from hedge funds Knighthead Capital Management and Abrams Capital Management to provide $15 billion in equity capital commitments supporting a plan to reorganize the company.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- August 12, 2019
Fes moves up shutdown of Bruce Mansfield Unit 3
FirstEnergy Solutions Corp. (Fes) announced Friday it is moving up its timetable to shutdown its remaining coal-fired unit in Beaver County, Pennsylvania, due to a “lack of economic viability in current market conditions.” The company has notified grid overseer PJM Interconnection Bruce Mansfield Plant Unit 3 will be deactivated on Nov.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- August 12, 2019
EnLink executive chair Davis reassumes CEO role
EnLink Midstream announced last week Barry E. Davis, the company’s executive chairman, who led EnLink as its CEO from its founding in 2014 to 2018, has reassumed the role of chief executive while continuing to serve as chairman.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- August 9, 2019
NGL Energy Partners sells refined products assets
NGL Energy Partners announced it’s selling TransMontaigne Product Services (Tpsl) and associated assets to an unnamed buyer for roughly $300 million, including equity consideration, inventory and net working capital, Kallanish Energy reports.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- August 9, 2019
Oxy sells $13B of debt to help fund Anadarko buy
Occidental Petroleum sold $13 billion of debt to help finance its acquisition of Anadarko Petroleum Corp. after receiving over $75 billion in orders for the deal at the peak, people familiar with the matter told Bloomberg.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- August 9, 2019
Oxy reaches $1.5B JV deal with Ecopetrol
Occidental Petroleum and Ecopetrol, Colombia’s state-owned oil company, have formed a joint venture to develop assets in the Midland Basin, Kallanish Energy learns.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- August 8, 2019
Tribal leaders request hearing concerning Dapl
South Dakota tribal leaders are requesting a public hearing in North Dakota about a proposed increase in crude oil carried by the Dakota Access Pipeline (Dapl), Kallanish Energy reports. Energy Transfer Partners plans to expand the pipeline’s capacity from more than 500,000 barrels per day, to as much as 1.1 million barrels per day (Mmbpd) to meet growing demand without constructing additional pipelines or rail shipments.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- August 7, 2019
Black Bear inks Cotton Valley gathering & processing pact
Black Bear Midstream said Tuesday it’s entered into a seven-year gas gathering and processing agreement with an unnamed Cotton Valley producer in Louisiana’s Desoto and Caddo parishes, Kallanish Energy reports.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- August 7, 2019
Caliber buys Bakken assets from American Midstream
Caliber Midstream Holdings said Tuesday it’s acquired Bakken assets in North Dakota from American Midstream Partners for an undisclosed price, Kallanish Energy reports.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- August 6, 2019
Enbridge holding open season for Canadian Mainline
Canadian pipeline giant Enbridge has initiated an open season for transportation services on the Canadian Mainline pipeline system, Kallanish Energy reports.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- August 6, 2019
Weatherford receives court approval of Dip financing
Oilfield services company Weatherford International Plc said Monday the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas had granted the company final approval for its debtor-in-possession (Dip) financing, Kallanish Energy reports.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- August 6, 2019
US sets daily record for power sector natgas use
The U.S. likely set a new daily record on Friday, July 19, of 44.5 billion cubic feet (Bcf) of natural gas consumption by power plants, the Energy Information Administration reports.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- August 5, 2019
Settlement allows Midwest refiners to go east
A major gasoline pipeline has reached an agreement to give Midwestern refiners greater access to Pennsylvania markets, Kallanish Energy learns. Houston-based Buckeye Partners has reached an agreement to allow Midwestern refiners to ship more fuel farther into Pennsylvania on its Laurel pipeline, a 350-mile line which historically was used by Philadelphia refineries to transport motor fuel and heating oil west across Pennsylvania.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- August 5, 2019
Transportation uses most petroleum in US: EIA
Petroleum, including crude oil and refined products such as gasoline, diesel, and propane, is the largest primary source of energy consumed in the U.S., accounting for 36% of total energy consumption in 2018, the Energy Information Administration reports.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- August 2, 2019
Northern Oil and Gas founder leaving company
Northern Oil and Gas, a Williston Basin-based independent producer, announced Michael Reger, founder, president and chairman emeritus, is leaving the company to “pursue opportunities” outside the Williston, Kallanish Energy reports.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- August 2, 2019
Pin Oak secures interconnection to Epic, Red Oak lines
Pin Oak Corpus Christi Monday announced new interconnection agreements with Epic Pipeline and Red Oak Pipeline and commencement of construction on its new crude oil trading hub at Taft, Texas, north of Corpus Christi, Kallanish Energy reports.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- August 1, 2019
US crude production continues setting monthly records
U.S. crude oil production in each of the first five months of 2019 increased over 2018 levels, with April 2019 establishing a new monthly record, the Energy Information Administration reports.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- July 31, 2019
TC Energy selling gas-fired power plants for $2.87B
TC Energy said Tuesday it’s entered into a deal via its TransCanada Energy Ltd. unit to sell interests in three Ontario natural gas-fired power plants to a subsidiary of Ontario Power Generation for roughly $2.87 billion, Kallanish Energy reports.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- July 30, 2019
US OCTG prices stay stuck in bear market
The slow on-going recovery for US steel prices is unlikely to affect the oil country tubular goods market for the foreseeable future, Kallanish hears from market sources.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- July 29, 2019
Neb says no federal scrutiny needed for gas line
TC Energy’s proposed Coastal GasLink pipeline to supply the LNG Canada project in northern British Columbia is not subject to federal regulation, Canada’s National Energy Board said Friday.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- July 29, 2019
Oneok announces expansions to natgas, Ngl infrastructure
Midstreamer Oneok last week announced $700 million in plans to expand its natural gas and natural gas liquids infrastructure between now and 2021, including: * A 200 million cubic feet per day (Mmcf/d) expansion of the Bear Creek natural gas processing facility and related infrastructure in the Williston Basin* Mid-Continent Ngl fractionation facility expansions totaling roughly 65,000 barrels per day, and additional Ngl infrastructure to increase capacity between the Elk Creek and Arbuckle II pipelines* A 40,000 Bpd additional expansion of the West Texas LPG pipeline in the Permian Basin.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- July 29, 2019
U.S. approves commercial service for Cameron LNG
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission last Friday approved Sempra Energy’s request to initiate commercial service of the first liquefaction train at its $10 billion Cameron liquefied natural gas export (Lng) terminal in Louisiana, Kallanish Energy learns.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- July 26, 2019
Icahn wins ISS support for initial step to shake up Oxy
Billionaire activist investor Carl Icahn’s effort to shake up Occidental Petroleum’s board got a boost from a prominent shareholder advisory firm Thursday, Kallanish Energy learns.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- July 26, 2019
Plaintiffs win royalty judgment against EQT
A federal judge has given final approval to the settlement of a natural gas royalty civil suit against EQT, which will cost the U.S.’s largest dry gas producer $53.5 million, Kallanish Energy learns.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- July 25, 2019
Presidio completes asset acquisition from Apache
Presidio Investment Holdings this week announced it’s completed the acquisition of all oil- and natural gas-producing properties in the western Anadarko Basin of Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas from Apache Corp.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- July 25, 2019
Switchback Energy launches Ipo
Switchback Energy Acquisition Corp. has begun its initial public offering of 30 million units at a price of $10.00 per unit, Kallanish Energy reports.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- July 24, 2019
Conservation groups seek action on dunes sagebrush lizard
Conservation groups have filed a notice to sue the Trump administration for failing to protect the dune sagebrush lizard in the Permian Basin, Kallanish Energy reports.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- July 24, 2019
Petition calls for halt to plastics pollution to streams, oceans
A coalition of 270 community and conservation groups across the United States has filed a legal petition demanding that the U.S.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- July 23, 2019
Owner of damaged Philly refinery files for Chapter 11
PES Energy, owner of the South Philadelphia oil refinery that suffered a massive fire and explosions last month, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, Kallanish Energy reports.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- July 23, 2019
Halliburton profit plunges 85% on charges
Oilfield services firm Halliburton on Monday said it cut 8% of its North American workforce as it took fleets of hydraulic fracturing equipment from the field in response to a continued slump in demand for fracking services in the U.S.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- July 22, 2019
Another major coal producer files for bankruptcy
Blackhawk Mining, LLC, a coal mining company with operations in Kentucky, West Virginia and Indiana, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy last Friday, Kallanish Energy reports.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- July 22, 2019
DTE approved to buy Isabella Wind projects
Apex Clean Energy said last week its proposed sale of the Isabella Wind I and II projects to DTE Energy has been conditionally approved by the Michigan Public Service Commission (Mpsc), Kallanish Energy reports.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- July 19, 2019
NRG restarts dormant gas-fired Corpus Christi plant
Energy company NRG Energy has re-started a Texas natural gas-fired plant which had been offline for nearly three years, Kallanish Energy reports.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- July 19, 2019
WildFire Energy I receives over $1B in equity commitments
WildFire Energy I, a startup oil and gas exploration and production company, said Thursday it’s assembled an equity line totaling more than $1 billion from management, funds affiliated with private equity fund Warburg Pincus and investment firm Kayne Private Energy Income Funds.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- July 18, 2019
NextEra completes underwater cable system buy
NextEra Energy Transmission said it’s completed the acquisition of Trans Bay Cable (Tbc) from affiliates of Steelriver Infrastructure Fund North America, Kallanish Energy reports.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- July 16, 2019
Charletta named Equitrans president
Midstreamer Equitrans Midstream announced Monday Diana M. Charletta was appointed president of the company and president of the general partner of EQM Midstream Partners LP, Kallanish Energy reports.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- July 16, 2019
Longhorn launches open season for Touchdown crude system
Longhorn Midstream Holdings announced Monday its LM Touchdown Crude II LLC unit launched a binding open season to support development of its Touchdown Crude Oil Gathering System in the Northern Delaware Basin, Kallanish Energy reports.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- July 15, 2019
Bellville Tube to reopen after 5-year hiatus
A Bellville, Texas, tube mill idled in 2014, is being restarted under new ownership, a company press release tells Kallanish, sister publication of Kallanish Energy.California governor fires state’s top oil regulator
California Gov. Gavin Newsom Thursday ordered his secretary of Natural Resources to fire Ken Harris, the state’s top oil regulator, after learning from media reports and watchdog groups fracking permits have doubled without his knowledge since he took office, and seven supervisors regulating the industry own shares in major oil companies.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- July 12, 2019
Pg&e didn’t repair lines it knew could cause wildfires: report
California utility Pacific Gas & Electric (Pg&e) knew power lines in Northern California could fail and cause wildfires, but the company delayed repairs for years before a 2018 blaze that killed 85 people, according to a Wall Street Journal investigation.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- July 12, 2019