David Bradley

Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources committee, is urging the Department of Energy’s Energy Information Administration (EIA) to publish data on oil storage capacity as a warning indicator of potential shut-in oil production.

FERC has denied a request from three environmental groups to rehear a 2017 order authorizing the Mountaineer XPress and Gulf XPress projects, a pair of TransCanada Corp. efforts to increase natural gas pipeline capacity out of the Appalachian Basin by expanding the company’s Columbia Gas Transmission LLC’s system.

A federal district court has upheld the Trump administration’s 2017 decision to rescind a rule governing hydraulic fracturing (fracking) on public and tribal lands.

In the first move of their partnership to ensure power services during the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, FERC and the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners (NARUC) are urging state authorities to designate utility workers as essential to the nation’s critical infrastructure.

The upcoming Atlantic hurricane season is likely to be the fifth consecutive with above-average activity, producing 14-18 tropical storms, including seven to nine hurricanes, with two to four of them major hurricanes (Category 3 or higher), according to AccuWeather meteorologists.

FERC has denied a request from three environmental groups to rehear a 2017 order authorizing the Mountaineer XPress and Gulf XPress projects, a pair of TransCanada Corp. efforts to increase natural gas pipeline capacity out of the Appalachian Basin by expanding the company’s Columbia Gas Transmission LLC’s system.

A group of nine members of Congress from both parties wants House and Senate leadership to keep in mind “the unique challenges facing the people who work in the U.S. oil and gas sector” as they craft relief legislation in response to the coronavirus pandemic.

The Trump administration is considering a host of potential resolutions to the oil price war currently wreaking havoc on global markets, including luring Saudi Arabia away from the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) and into an alliance with the United States, according to U.S. Energy Secretary Dan Brouillette.

Forced to operate with limited personnel during the coronavirus emergency, the U.S. oil and natural gas industry needs relief from a laundry list of non-essential compliance obligations, according to the American Petroleum Institute (API).