Gabrielle Vitali

Major global natural gas and crude oil producer Hess Corp. is donating $50 million to Salk Institute’s Harnessing Plants Initiative (HPI) over the next five years to advance initiatives toward net-zero emissions. The funds would support research operations and infrastructure for the new Hess Center for Plant Science.  “The Harnessing Plant Initiative is a potential…

U.S. midstream giant Buckeye Partners LP is expanding its diversified energy projects by launching an infrastructure arm that would focus on energy transition opportunities. BAES Infrastructure would develop, construct and operate the projects, the Houston company said. Buckeye provides infrastructure and logistic solutions and is one of the largest liquid petroleum products pipeline operators in…

Olympus Energy LLC, which also has a midstream arm, has become the first integrated natural gas producer to independently certify its natural gas, according to management. The Pennsylvania-based exploration and production company focuses on upstream and midstream natural gas resources in the Appalachian Basin. Subsidiary Hyperion Midstream also  gained verification for its gas emissions, both…

San Francisco-based Aether Fuels, whose focus is decarbonizing aviation and marine transportation, agreed to acquire Sustainable Syngas LLC (SSG) in a deal that would merge their carbon-neutral fuel-production technologies.  No financial details were provided about the transaction, which is expected to fast track Aether’s first commercial plant and project pipeline.  SSG has been focused on…

Calgary-based pipeline giant Enbridge Inc. has agreed to spend $1 billion in a U.S. development with Divert Inc. to turn food waste into renewable natural gas (RNG).  The investment is part of a plan to develop facilities in major U.S. regions within 100 miles of 80% of the population, according to the companies.  “The infrastructure…

Olympus Energy LLC, which also has a midstream arm, has become the first integrated natural gas producer to independently certify its natural gas, according to management. The Pennsylvania-based exploration and production company focuses on upstream and midstream natural gas resources in the Appalachian Basin. Subsidiary Hyperion Midstream also  gained verification for its gas emissions, both…

Private equity-backed Viridi Energy has begun building a landfill renewable natural gas (RNG) project in Ringle, WI, in partnership with the Marathon County Solid Waste Department. Viridi, sponsored by Warburg Pincus and Green Rock Energy Partners LLC, plans to produce RNG equal to more than three million gallons/year of gasoline, it noted.  “As the transition…

Amogy, a Brooklyn-based startup company, has found a way to use ammonia to power the world’s first zero-emissions tugboat. This announcement comes after the company successfully powered a semi-truck. In an interview with NGI, CEO Seonghoon Woo talked about how using ammonia could decarbonize transportation. “Beyond its incredible energy density and liquid phase at an…

The Biden administration is funding $2.52 billion to accelerate investments in carbon capture storage (CCS) and carbon transport technologies.  The Bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act of 2021 funded two programs: the Carbon Capture Large-Scale Pilots and Carbon Capture Demonstration Projects. The goal of these programs is to decrease carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from electricity…