Joe Fisher

Recently launched Enable Midstream Partners LP has filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for a proposed initial public offering (IPO) of common units representing limited partner interests.

Crowley Maritime Corp. has commissioned construction of two of the world’s first liquefied natural gas (LNG)-fueled combination container and vehicle transport ships to provide shipping and logistics services between the United States mainland and Puerto Rico.

Counties in the Eagle Ford Shale region of South Texas were four of the state’s top five oil-producing counties during September, while North Texas counties were four of the top five natural gas producers, according to the Railroad Commission of Texas (RRC).

Dow Water & Process Solutions, a unit of The Dow Chemical Co., and Omni Water Solutions have treated more than 245,000 barrels of flowback and produced water from Texas Eagle Ford Shale hydraulic fracturing operations.

Operators have turned to shales because that’s where the oil is. So it’s not surprising to find that shale towns are also where the money is, according to personal income data from the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA).

Pro-hydraulic fracturing (fracking) interests are growing in stature among political campaign contributors, according to a public interest advocacy group, which attributes their increased spending to increased discussion of the well stimulation practice.

A small conventional oil and gas company in Ohio recently settled a lawsuit with two individuals opposed to hydraulic fracturing (fracking) who allegedly referred to a road deicer and dust suppressant it manufactures as frack waste or frack water. The product, called AquaSalina, is processed from brine water produced during oil and gas drilling. The Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court ruled against Tish O’Dell and Michelle Aini, members of a group opposed to oil and gas drilling, and issued an injunction preventing them from further defaming Duck Creek Energy, of Brecksville, Ohio. Duck Creek filed the lawsuit in 2012. It was settled in September and the company announced the outcome earlier this month.

The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) latest authorization to export liquefied natural gas (LNG) to non-free trade agreement (FTA) countries bends the agency’s own rules and sends a “troubling” message, an LNG export advocate told NGI.

Researchers at the University of Texas at Austin (UT) say they have arrived at a simple method to model decline rates of shale natural gas wells in the Barnett Shale that could also be applied to other plays, as well as oil wells in tight formations.