- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- June 17, 2022
Natural Gas – 100 Years Ago Today, June 17, 1922!
Natural Gas – 100 Years Ago Today, June 17, 1922! Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. …. …. Natural gas news from a hundred years ago offers great perspective for discussing one of the cleanest sources of energy available then and still today.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- March 9, 2022
Keystone XL An American Solution to Europe’s Energy Problem
Keystone XL An American Solution to Europe’s Energy Problem Garland L. Thompson, Esq.Journalist and Author, Philadelphia PennEast [Editor’s Note: Garland Thompson shows why the Keystone XL pipeline, killed by Joe Biden at the first chance, was and remains one of the solutions to Europe’s energy crisis.]- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- November 23, 2021
Refinery Threatened by Dumb RFS and RGGI Policies
Refinery Gordon TombSenior Fellow, Commonwealth Foundation .. …. [Editor’s Note: The Trainer Refinery south of Philadelphia is one of the reasons the region could prosper if it wants to do so but block-headed RFS and RGGI policy threaten it.]- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- November 9, 2021
NEPA Moves Ahead While Philadelphia Leaders Let It Languish
Shapiro Garland L. Thompson, Esq.Journalist and Author, Philadelphia PennEast [Editor’s Note: Garland Thompson looks at what could have been and still could be for Philadelphia if its non-believing leaders only opened their eyes to what NEPA is doing.]- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- August 3, 2020
Phillips 66 posts $141M loss in Q2 as midstream, refining improves
Houston-based refiner Phillips 66 has recorded net losses of $141 million in second-quarter, in a marked improvement from its first-quarter performance, Kallanish Energy reports.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- March 2, 2020
Citgo reaches deal to transfer Aruba refinery to govt
U.S. refiner Citgo has reached an agreement with the island of Aruba to transfer control of the San Nicolas refinery to the island’s government, Citgo said late Saturday, Kallanish Energy learns.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- February 25, 2020
Bankruptcy judge approves PES refinery’s sale
A U.S. Bankruptcy Court judge has approved the $252 million sale of the Philadelphia Energy Solutions (PES’) refining complex in South Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to a Chicago, Illinois-based developer.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- February 12, 2020
Refinery Sale Suggests Philadelphia May Be More Rotten Than Denmark
Tom Shepstone Shepstone Management Company, Inc. . … The Philadelphia refinery sale proposed by the debtor makes no sense and unsecured creditors are calling out what may be some serious corruption.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- January 30, 2020
Philadelphia Refinery Not Dead Yet? And, Something’s Fishy.
Tom Shepstone Shepstone Management Company, Inc. . … It turns out the Philadelphia refinery sale we covered the other day wasn’t the high bid!- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- January 23, 2020
Philadelphia Gets What It Wished, But Not Exactly; Green Virtue Gone Bad
Kurt Knaus SpokesmanPennsylvania Energy Infrastructure Alliance … … Philadelphia City Council apparently gets its wish, sort of, but loses all the jobs, the green bragging rights and the opportunity to be the next Houston.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- December 23, 2019
Possible drone attacks hit 3 O&G facilities in Syria
Near-simultaneous attacks believed to have been carried out by drones hit three government-run oil and gas installations in central Syria, state TV and the Syrian Oil Ministry said last Saturday.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- November 7, 2019
Cause of Philly refinery fire causes concern over 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.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- October 7, 2019
Bankrupt refinery requests paying exec bonuses in secret
Philadelphia Energy Solutions, which paid $4.6 million in bonuses to executives following a June fire that led to the refinery’s closure and bankruptcy, wants to pay out a new round of retention awards, the Philadelphia Inquirer reported.- 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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- 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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- June 27, 2019
Crude oil prices jump after massive supply drop
Crude oil prices jumped Wednesday after the Energy Information Administration reported a massive, unexpected drop in U.S. inventories, Kallanish Energy reports.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- June 24, 2019
Massive explosions rip East Coast’s largest refinery
Massive explosions and fire engulfed Philadelphia Energy Solutions’ refinery last Friday resulting in significant damage and renewing concerns about the oil industry’s use of a toxic chemical to make high-octane gasoline at plants in populated areas.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- June 12, 2019
Shell to sell California refinery for $1B
Oil supermajor Royal Dutch Shell has agreed to sell its Martinez, California, refinery, 30 miles northeast of San Francisco, to independent refiner PBF Energy for up to $1 billion, the two companies announced Tuesday, Kallanish Energy reports.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- May 3, 2019
Chevron completes $350M refinery deal
Oil supermajor Chevron’s Chevron U.S.A. unit said it’s completed the $350 million buy from Petrobras America of all outstanding shares and equity interests of Pasadena Refining System (Prsi) and Prsi Trading, Kallanish Energy reports.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- April 26, 2019
Pbfx buys 50% interest in Calif. pipeline firm
PBF Logistics (Pbfx) said it’s acquiring the 50% interest it doesn’t already own in the Torrance Valley Pipeline Co. (Tvpc) from an affiliate of its sponsor, refiner PBF Energy, for roughly $200 million in cash, Kallanish Energy reports.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- March 29, 2019