Carolyn Davis

A Northern California county has lost an appeal to curb oil and natural gas development following an appeals court ruling. Monterey County voters in November 2016 approved Measure Z, a ballot initiative to prohibit new drilling activities in unincorporated areas. San Ramon, CA-based Chevron Corp. and other producers then filed a lawsuit, arguing the county…

The monthly U.S. oil and gas permit count was nearly flat in September from August, with activity in the Eagle Ford Shale and some smaller Lower 48 plays offsetting declines in the Powder River and Permian basins, according to Evercore ISI. Each month the Evercore team compiles federal and state permitting data to note the…

Navigator CO2 Ventures LLC said Thursday it has binding commitments in hand to sanction the massive Heartland Greenway system, a 1,300-mile carbon capture pipeline that would traverse five states across the Midwest. As initially designed, Heartland would transport and sequester up to 15 million metric tons/year of carbon dioxide (CO2) from industrial customers in Illinois,…

Air Products and Chemicals Inc. on Thursday earmarked $4.5 billion to build and operate a mega complex in Ascension, Parish, LA, capable of producing 750 million cubic feet/day of blue hydrogen and potentially the world’s largest carbon capture sequestration endeavor to date. The project, expected to be operational in 2026, was announced Thursday by Gov.…

The United States is looking to hold up to seven lease sales by 2025 to expand offshore wind energy capacity from coast to coast. The Biden administration has set a goal to expand U.S. offshore wind capacity to 30,000 MW by 2030, which could power more than 10 million homes. The United States now has…

A consortium of public, private and academic experts led by Royal Dutch Shell plc has been tapped to develop large-scale liquid hydrogen (LH2) storage for international trade applications. The Department of Energy (DOE) Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Technologies Office, which awarded the project, wants the group to demonstrate that a large-scale LH2 tank, with capacity…

Halliburton Co. and VoltaGrid LLC have clinched a multi-year contract with Aethon Energy Management LLC to deploy an all-electric fracturing solution in the Haynesville Shale. The project combines Halliburton’s all-electric fracturing spread, which uses the Zeus 5,000 hp electric pumping unit, with VoltaGrid’s power generation system, which offers real-time emissions tracking. “All-electric fracturing represents an…

Moving the energy economy to net zero emissions is timely and costly, and the world now faces another dilemma: a natural gas market under “tremendous pressure” ahead of winter, the International Energy Agency (IEA) said Wednesday. In launching its annual World Energy Outlook (WEO-2021), the global energy watchdog acknowledged that winter 2021/2022 is opening with…

Houston-based Piñon Midstream LLC has placed into service some Permian Basin infrastructure in New Mexico that includes the Dark Horse sour natural gas treating and carbon capture facility, which is already near initial capacity of 85 MMcf/d. The project within the Delaware sub-basin in Lea County was built to capture and permanently sequester carbon dioxide…