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- January 22, 2020
US crude production inches up in new survey
The newest evidence oil and gas production is slowing across the U.S. came Tuesday from the Energy Information Administration. Crude oil production from the U.S.’s- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- January 21, 2020
Sinopec to review potential $16B Cheniere deal: sources
China’s Sinopec is planning to review terms of a potential $16 billion liquefied natural gas supply deal with Cheniere Energy, industry officials told Reuters.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- January 20, 2020
Freeport LNG’s Train 2 begins commercial operations
Freeport LNG’s Train 2 has started commercial operations, Kallanish Energy reports. That announcement of the initial LNG deliveries to BP under a 20-year tolling agreement came last Friday. Freeport- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- January 10, 2020
Oxy soon to begin cutting jobs post-Anadarko takeover
Occidental Petroleum said Wednesday it would begin cutting personnel in a new cost-cutting move following its $38 billion acquisition of Anadarko Petroleum, Kallanish Energy learns.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- January 6, 2020
US O&G M&A poised for recovery: Enverus
A total of $96 billion of U.S. oil & gas merger and acquisition transactions took place in 2019, including $11 billion in the final three months of the year, according to data analytics firm Enverus.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- January 3, 2020
Oxy strengthens board, adds former Schlumberger CEO
Occidental Petroleum added to its board of directors Thursday with the appointment of a former Schlumberger CEO, as Oxy looks to score points with its shareholders after risking its future to buy Anadarko Petroleum for $38 billion in 2019.Fracking ban would gut US economy: study
By 2025, the price of gasoline would double and government revenue would plummet by almost $1.9 trillion, according to What If … Hydraulic Fracturing Was Banned?- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- December 13, 2019
ONEOK’s Elk Creek line flowing NGL
Midstreamer ONEOK this week announced its Elk Creek Pipeline is now flowing natural gas liquids 900 miles, from the Williston Basin to ONEOK’s Mid-Continent NGL facilities in Bushton, Kansas, Kallanish Energy reports.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- December 12, 2019
EPIC ships 1st crude from Corpus Christi
Texas-based EPIC Crude Holdings said Wednesday one of its subsidiaries has loaded and launched the first shipment of crude oil from the IGC marine terminal, located on the Inner Harbor of the Corpus Christi (Texas) Ship Channel.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- December 12, 2019
Ironwood Midstream closes South Texas buy
Ironwood Midstream Energy Partners II announced it’s closed on the acquisition of midstream assets located in South Texas from Twin Eagle Gardendale Pipeline LLC, a unit of Twin Eagle Holdings N.A.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- December 11, 2019
Chevron hints at divesting Appalachian assets
Chevron hinted Tuesday its Appalachian shale assets could soon be up for sale, along with other parts of its asset portfolio, as the oil supermajor moves to “invest in the highest return, lowest risk projects … ,” Kallanish Energy reports.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- December 3, 2019
Sabine O&G completes sale to Osaka Gas USA
Sabine Oil & Gas Holdings said Monday it’s closed the sale of its subsidiary, Sabine Oil & Gas Corp. to Osaka Gas USA Corp.,- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- November 29, 2019
Cowboys owner looks to score big in the Haynesville
Jerry Jones, owner/general manager of the National Football League’s Dallas Cowboys, has taken a fancy to Louisiana’s Haynesville Shale, calling it the best play for low-cost hydrocarbons and that he’s hunting for more acreage there.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- November 18, 2019
Noble drops-down midstream assets for $1.6B
Independent producer Noble Energy said Friday after concluding its midstream review, it will retain and increase its ownership in Noble Midstream Partners (NBLX), Kallanish Energy reports.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- November 14, 2019
Porges to step down from Equitrans board
Equitrans Midstream said late Wednesday former EQT chief executive David L. Porges will step down from the natural gas midstreamer’s board, effective Dec.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- November 12, 2019
Outside activists threatening energy industry: CEA
Well-funded, out-of-state activists are threatening Oklahoma’s oil and gas resources and pipeline network, a consumer energy group warned in a recent report, CNHI News Service reported.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- November 12, 2019
Oxy looking to sell Wyoming, Colorado assets: sources
Occidental Petroleum Corp is soliciting bids for oil and gas properties in Wyoming and Colorado acquired when it purchased Anadarko Petroleum, hoping the assets will bring up to $700 million, people familiar with the matter told Reuters.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- November 8, 2019
Equinor sells Eagle Ford assets in $325M deal
Equinor has agreed to sell to Repsol its 63% interest in, and operatorship of, its onshore business in the Eagle Ford Shale play in South Texas, for $325 million, Kallanish Energy reports.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- November 4, 2019
Stored gas more than half-Tcf higher than year ago
The volume of working natural gas added to storage in the latest Energy Information Administration weekly survey rose by 89 billion cubic feet, bringing this year’s total to more than a half-trillion cubic feet higher than one year ago.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- November 3, 2019
Pa emissions fell 92% as energy production rose almost 3,000%
Pennsylvania emissions fell as much as 92% since 1990, even as the state’s energy demand and production soared eleven fold from 2010 to 2018, and natural gas processing expanded more than eightfold during that time frame, a Consumer Energy Alliance (CEA) analysis found.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- November 1, 2019
XOM didn’t deceive investors on climate change: Tillerson
ExxonMobil’s leadership tried to understand how new climate regulations would impact the supermajor’s bottom line, former CEO and ex-Secretary of State Rex Tillerson told a court Wednesday, Kallanish Energy reports.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- October 31, 2019
Shale Support to expand Shale Rail partnership
Shale Support Global Holdings, a provider of frac-sand and logistics services to the oil and gas industry, has signed an extension to continue working with Shale Rail as the exclusive supply company for a Bradford County, Pennsylvania, frac sand storage facility.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- October 31, 2019
Oil industry veteran Keenan resigns from Apache
Oil and gas industry veteran Steven Keenan, who is credited with the Alpine High shale discovery for Apache Corp, resigned from his position as senior vice president of Worldwide Exploration, the company said.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- October 29, 2019
EPD’s oil pipeline system expansions to add 900,000 Bpd
Enterprise Products Partners (EPD) said Monday it expects its Midland-to-ECHO 3 and 4 Permian crude pipeline system expansions each will add roughly 450,000 barrels per day of additional capacity, Kallanish Energy reports.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- October 28, 2019
PG&E shuts off power to 940,000 as CA wildfires rage
Millions of Californians were without power Sunday as Pacific Gas and Electric Co. implemented its largest-ever blackout to prevent wildfires during high and hot winds, Kallanish Energy reports.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- October 25, 2019
Dominion, Smithfield JV becomes largest US RNG supplier
Dominion Energy and Smithfield Foods announced they would double their investment to $500 million in a joint venture converting methane to clean natural gas, creating the nation’s largest supplier of renewable natural gas (RNG), Kallanish Energy reports The two companies created Align Renewable Natural Gas in November 2018, allocating $250 million to the project over 10 years.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- October 24, 2019
Trump hails shale drilling, US energy industry
PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania — President Trump Wednesday celebrated a love-in in the Appalachian Basin. The president delivered a 64-minute salute to shale drilling and the U.S.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- October 24, 2019
Natural gas usage climbs as distributors replace lines
PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania — Natural gas usage for one local distribution company operating in Pennsylvania and Maryland said Wednesday has increased 17% in the last two years, primarily in the commercial and industrial sectors.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- October 22, 2019
The Carlyle Group exits Corpus oil terminal project
The Carlyle Group, an international private equity/investment firm and the entity behind efforts to build a $1 billion crude oil export terminal at Harbor Island, Port of Corpus Christi, Texas, is pulling out of the project.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- October 18, 2019
Energy secretary Perry tells Trump he’s resigning
U.S. Energy Secretary Rick Perry has notified President Trump he intends to leave his job in the near future, numerous media outlets were reporting late Thursday, Kallanish Energy learns.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- October 17, 2019
Duc well total falls in latest survey
All seven basins/plays included in the Energy Information Administration’s latest Drilling Productivity Report (DPR) experienced a drop in drilled, but uncompleted (DUC) wells from August to September, Kallanish Energy reports.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- October 17, 2019
US crude production to climb from October to November
Crude oil production from the Lower 48 U.S. states’ seven most prolific plays/basins is projected to increase 58,000 barrels per day from October to November, the Energy Information Administration reports in the October Drilling Productivity Report (DPR).- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- October 16, 2019
Northeast natgas spot prices fall as lines fill
Natural gas flows out of the Northeast region into the rest of the U.S. averaged more than 16 billion cubic feet per day (Bcf/d) during September — between 1 Bcf/d and 2 Bcf/d more than in previous months, according to data from analytics firm Genscape.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- October 16, 2019
Bison O&G closes term loan with Vӓrde Partners
Independent producer Bison Oil & Gas Partners II said Tuesday it’s closed on a $155 million term loan facility with global alternative investor Vӓrde Partners, Kallanish Energy reports.Sand deposit could be ‘game-changer’ for ND oil industry
A deposit of fracking sand in north-central North Dakota could be a boon to the state’s oil industry, the Grand Forks Herald reports.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- October 14, 2019
Cuomo orders National Grid to provide hookups
The Cuomo administration in New York State has ordered National Grid to provide natural gas hookups to over 1,100 previously denied Brooklyn-based customers, numerous media reported.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- October 11, 2019
Chevron CEO touts Texas growth
Chevron’s chief executive on Wednesday touted the company’s Texas growth, from the Permian Basin to Houston refining and chemicals. Speaking at the Greater Houston Partnership’s annual “State of Energy” luncheon, Mike Wirth also urged the energy industry to take the lead on emissions reductions to help combat climate change, the Houston Chronicle reported.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- October 11, 2019
UPS adding 6,000 NGVs
Package delivery giant UPS will purchase more than 6,000 natural gas-powered vehicles (NGVs) beginning in 2020, through 2022, Kallanish Energy reports.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- October 10, 2019
Halliburton cutting 650 jobs in US
Oilfield services giant Halliburton said Wednesday it’s cutting another 650 U.S. jobs as oil and gas producers have slashed spending amid weak prices and investor demands for stronger financials, Reuters reported.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- October 8, 2019
Tallgrass announces open season for Pony Express expansion
Midstreamer Tallgrass Energy, through its affiliate Tallgrass Pony Express Pipeline LLC, Monday announced a binding open season soliciting shipper commitments for crude oil transportation on the Pony Express system from origin points in Wyoming to the McPherson refinery in McPherson, Kansas.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- October 3, 2019
US O&G M&A maintains momentum in Q3: Enverus
Despite what’s called a “difficult” market, merger and acquisition activity in the U.S. oil and gas industry maintained the momentum established in Q2, surpassing $17 billion in Q3, according to data released by data analytics company Enverus.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- September 26, 2019
Dallas Fed survey: O&G activity contracts, employment falls
Energy sector activity declined in the third quarter, according to executives responding to the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas Energy Survey, Kallanish Energy reports.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- September 26, 2019
PA county calls Mariner East pipeline a ‘nuisance’
The Chester County, Pennsylvania, prosecutor, increasing pressure on Sunoco’s Mariner East Pipeline, said this week his office plans to sue the $5.1- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- September 25, 2019
Candor’s SCOOP-to-North-Texas gathering system online
Independent midstreamer Candor Midstream announced Tuesday its SCOOP-to-North-Texas rich gas gathering pipeline system now is online, Kallanish Energy reports. Candor purchased the system in January 2019, then made multiple upgrades to the pipeline system.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- September 24, 2019
Natural gas royalties paid in Pa reach nearly $10B
Royalties paid to Pennsylvania landowners for natural gas extraction in primarily eight counties totaled $8.84 billion from 2010 through 2018, according to calculations by the state Independent Fiscal Office (IFO), Kallanish Energy reports.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- September 23, 2019
Working gas added to storage in latest survey
The amount of working natural gas added to underground storage in the latest Energy Information Administration survey pushed the total stored working gas total over 3.1- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- September 20, 2019
Enterprise to expand, extend Acadian system
Enterprise Products Partners Thursday announced plans to expand and extend its Acadian natural gas system to deliver gas from the Haynesville Shale to the liquefied natural gas market in South Louisiana, Kallanish Energy reports.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- September 19, 2019
Eco-Energy buys gathering/processing/terminal assets
Tennessee-based biofuel company Eco-Energy has acquired the Stone Mountain gathering pipeline system, Stone Mountain processing facility and the Stone Mountain rail terminal from Continuum Energy Services for an undisclosed price.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- September 18, 2019
LM Energy completes 1st phase of Touchdown gathering system
LM Energy Holdings, the former Longhorn Midstream Holdings LLC, said Phase I of its Touchdown Crude Oil Gathering System in the northern Delaware Basin is complete, Kallanish Energy reports.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- September 17, 2019
North Dakota O&G production hits new highs in July
North Dakota posted records for oil and gas production in July, while the number of producing oilwells in the state also hit an all-time high, Kallanish Energy learns.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- September 17, 2019
US oil production forecast to climb from September to October
Crude oil production in the U.S.’s seven most productive basins/plays is projected to climb 74,000 barrels per day from September to October, the Energy Information Administration reported in the September Drilling Productivity Report (DPR).- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- September 16, 2019
Trump authorizes release of oil reserves, line approvals
U.S. President Trump said Sunday he’s authorized a fast-track approach to pipeline approvals in Texas and other states following the attacks on Saudi oil facilities Saturday, Kallanish Energy reports.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- September 12, 2019
US producible gas volume jumps in latest biennial survey
Energy industry experts who comprise the Potential Gas Committee announced Wednesday the volume of producible natural gas in the U.S. has jumped roughly 20% since their last assessment two years ago.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- September 11, 2019
EQT simplifying organization, cutting 23% of workforce
EQT Corp. said Tuesday it’s cutting its workforce by 23% — 196 positions – and chopping departments to 15 from 58 – all designed to improve operational effectiveness, and create a more efficient, nimbler organization.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- September 9, 2019
Fight continues over new Enbridge Mainline contracts
More than two dozen Canadian oil producers have filed comments with the Canada Energy Regulator on Enbridge’s plan to revise its shipping contracts on the Mainline pipeline system, Kallanish Energy has learned.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- September 9, 2019
More crude oil being loaded at Corpus Christi: RBN Energy
U.S. crude oil loadings at Corpus Christi, Texas, have nearly doubled with the completion of new pipelines from the Permian Basin of West Texas and New Mexico, Kallanish Energy has learned.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- September 5, 2019
Correction: Ohio 2Q 2019 shale production
Ohio’s crude oil production increased by 29.54% in second quarter 2019, and natural gas production increased by 10.81% from 2Q 2018.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- September 5, 2019
Hurricane forces evacuation of Elba Island LNG
Kinder Morgan has run into a new delay at its liquefied natural gas export facility in Georgia: Hurricane Dorian. The LNG liquefaction/export facility being started up has been evacuated and it is unclear how long the closure might last, Ceo Stevn Kean said on Wednesday at the Barclays energy conference in New York City, Kallanish Energy reports.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- August 30, 2019