Atlantic

A federal district court judge in Alaska last Friday ruled an executive order (EO) issued by President Trump in 2017 opening areas of the Arctic and Atlantic oceans to oil and gas leasing was “unlawful and invalid,” and ordered the areas closed to leasing.

Pieridae Energy Ltd. announced an engineering review of costs for its delayed proposal to launch liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports from Canada’s Atlantic coast by building a mammoth Nova Scotia terminal, Goldboro LNG.

Despite impossible odds of passing the GOP-controlled Senate, House lawmakers on their third day of control Tuesday introduced seven bills designed to block the Trump administration’s plans to expand offshore oil and gas drilling.

A $1.3 billion expansion has been sanctioned by BP plc for its deepwater Atlantis field in the Gulf of Mexico (GOM), with “significant additional oil resources” identified by the supermajor that could expand development opportunities around all of its offshore U.S. production hubs.

The National Ocean Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Fisheries Office of Protected Resources (FOPR) has issued final authorizations to five companies allowing them to “incidentally, but not intentionally, harass marine mammals” while conducting geophysical surveys in support of oil and natural gas exploration off the Atlantic coast from Delaware to Florida.

Cabot Oil & Gas Corp. on Friday joined other Appalachian operators in a chorus of praise for the takeaway capacity that has come online throughout the basin this year, which has helped to lift prices that have long been restrained.

Cabot Oil & Gas Corp. said Tuesday its third quarter production is likely to come in below guidance after the Atlantic Sunrise pipeline project came online later than expected and some sales were delayed by changes to the company’s turn-in-line schedule.

The same day it OK’d the startup of Atlantic Sunrise, FERC authorized service on another Appalachian takeaway expansion aimed at serving the East Coast, Columbia Gas Transmission LLC’s WB XPress Project.

FERC late Friday ordered Atlantic Coast Pipeline LLC (ACP) to stop all work along the project’s 600-mile route in a move that was widely expected after a federal appeals court last week vacated key permits.