Morgan Evans joined NGI as an interning associate reporter in June 2019 before joining the Thought Leaders team in a full-time position in May 2022. She holds a liberal arts degree from Gettysburg College.
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ConocoPhillips Building Global LNG Portfolio as Long-Term Resource in Energy Transition
Management for Houston-based ConocoPhillips during a quarterly earnings call highlighted the independent’s progress as it expanded its LNG activities while achieving record production. CEO Ryan Lance told investors “the world is going to need investments in medium- and long-term production in addition to U.S. shale plays.” ConocoPhillips’ portfolio is “well positioned to meet these long-term…
November 8, 2022
National Grid, Copper Labs Technology Piloting Ways to Reduce Natural Gas Demand in Extreme Weather
After first announcing a partnership last year, National Grid plc and Copper Labs Inc. said they had demonstrated how targeted messaging can help customers reduce energy consumption during extreme weather events such as the bomb cyclone that tore through the East Coast in January. Copper Labs in March 2021 received $2 million in funding from…
November 7, 2022
Eversource CEO Urges Biden to Waive Jones Act as New England Facing Possible ‘Severe Natural Gas Shortage’
The CEO for New England’s largest utility, Eversource Energy, called on President Biden in a letter last week to enact federal emergency orders to “swiftly address the growing concerns” of New England’s access, or lack thereof, to natural gas this winter heating season. New England, which lacks the natural gas pipeline infrastructure to fill out…
November 7, 2022
Pennsylvania Lawmakers Add $30M in Tax Incentives for Natural Gas Use, Offer Carrot for Hydrogen Hub
Lawmakers in Pennsylvania, the second-largest U.S. natural gas-producing state, last week signed a bill increasing tax credits by $30 million for in-state fertilizer and petrochemical manufacturers that use locally-produced natural gas. House Bill 1059, dubbed the Pennsylvania Economic Development for a Growing Economy (PA EDGE), amends the Keystone State’s tax code, boosting the natural gas…
November 3, 2022
Denbury Expecting CO2 Pipeline Expansion as Part of Blue Methanol Project Partnership
Denbury Inc. subsidiary Denbury Carbon Solutions LLC has inked a 20-year agreement with Lake Charles Methanol LLC (LCM) to provide carbon dioxide (CO2) transportation and storage for LCM’s $4 billion project to convert natural gas into hydrogen, and ultimately blue methanol. Denbury said it intends to construct a new pipeline from the Lake Charles industrial…
November 1, 2022
Woodside Kicks Up U.S. Carbon Capture Investments with LanzaTech Venture
LanzaTech NZ Inc. is poised to gain a boost in U.S. opportunities after Australia’s natural gas and oil giant Woodside Energy Group Ltd. agreed to a $50 million investment. In addition, Woodside has a strategic framework agreement (SFA) to collaborate on pilots that demonstrate LanzaTech’s carbon capture and transformation (CCT) technologies. “With both this collaboration…
October 31, 2022
Tallgrass Turbocharging Lower 48 Natural Gas System for ‘Cleaner Energy Future’
Tallgrass Energy Partners is set to install dozens of turboexpander systems capable of responding to variable temperatures, pressures and flow rates across its natural gas network in partnership with Sapphire Technologies Inc. and Evolve Holdings Ltd. The trio is expected to install more than 72 of Sapphire’s FreeSpin In-line turboexpanders (FIT) across the Tallgrass natural…
October 28, 2022
Cheniere Signals Natural Gas Emissions Worth Monitoring at Sabine Pass, Corpus Christi LNG Terminals
Cheniere Energy Inc. has begun measuring greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions at its two Gulf Coast LNG export terminals to demonstrate its progress to export “cleaner” natural gas. The Houston-based liquefied natural gas exporter has joined the United Nations Environment Programme’s (UNEP) Oil and Gas Methane Partnership (OGMP) 2.0. Cheniere has also initiated the quantify, monitor,…
October 26, 2022
Midcontinent Facing Higher Rates After Summer Sent Natural Gas Prices to ‘15-Year High’ – Winter Rate Spikes: Part 5
As shoulder season comes to a close, several Midcontinent utilities have begun implementing new rates to recover costs that resulted from, amid other factors, an unseasonably hot summer for the region, while others have begun to seek higher rates ahead of what is expected to be a similarly cold winter.
October 25, 2022
Capacity, Production, Weather: The Trifecta Impacting Appalachia Natural Gas Prices – Winter Rate Spikes: Part 4
In a colder-than-average winter, the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) reported the average household could spend as much as 51% more on natural gas this winter compared with last year
October 20, 2022