Charlie Passut

Permian pure play Ring Energy Inc. said it drilled seven horizontal wells during the first quarter, including six in the Central Basin Platform (CBP), where it recently completed a $300 million acquisition the CEO called a “game changer.”

A divided FERC voted to authorize two liquefied natural gas (LNG) export projects Thursday, as Commission staff reported that the United States is likely to continue as a net exporter of natural gas in 2019, with six fully operational LNG export terminals online by year’s end.

A federal judge in California has struck down the Trump administration’s repeal of an Obama-era rule that amended how the government calculates royalties for oil, natural gas and coal produced on public and tribal lands.

FERC staff has completed a final environmental impact statement (EIS) for three affiliates of Kinder Morgan Inc. (KMI) to convert an existing liquefied natural gas (LNG) import terminal in Mississippi into an export terminal.

Santos Ltd. said an appraisal well in the Corvus field offshore Western Australia confirmed a “significant gas resource,” potentially giving the country a boost in its competition with the United States to supply liquefied natural gas (LNG) worldwide.

Zydeco Pipeline Co. LLC is holding a binding open season through May 31 to test support for an oil pipeline connecting the Gulf Coast to Louisiana refineries.

Energy activity was flat in the first quarter across much of the Rockies and the northern half of New Mexico, as the region’s exploration and production (E&P) companies said natural gas prices needed to average $3.02/MMBtu for drilling to be profitable, according to the Federal Reserve Bank (Fed) of Kansas City.

Most Americans back an energy agenda that relies on domestic energy sources, including oil and natural gas, but support for the controversial Green New Deal (GND) is tepid, according to a survey released Thursday by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s Global Energy Institute (GEI).

Regulators in Texas have given Milestone Environmental Services a permit to build its second oilfield waste landfill in the Permian Basin.