Carbon

Natural Gas, Oil Innovations Shaping Future Energy Landscape, Says BP

With abundant natural gas and oil supplies, no “major” technology breakthroughs are needed to meet an estimated at 2.5 trillion boe of demand by 2050, but by applying today’s best available technologies reserves could nearly double, while future technologies would add even more, BP plc said Monday in a report.

November 3, 2015

Carbon Capture, Storage Research Could Enhance NatGas Production

Researchers from Virginia Tech and the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) made progress over the summer on a more than $14 million project to develop safer carbon storage methods that could also help recover more natural gas from shale and coalbeds.

October 20, 2015

Natural Gas Crucial to Low-Carbon Future, Say ExxonMobil, Shell CEOs

The CEOs of ExxonMobil Corp. and Royal Dutch Shell plc this week each said renewables have a role to play in future world energy supply, but natural gas still would lead the way toward a sustainable future.

October 8, 2015
California Lawmakers Pass Revised Climate Change Law

California Lawmakers Pass Revised Climate Change Law

California lawmakers on Friday passed a watered-down climate bill (SB 350) and an oil pipeline safety measure (SB 414) directly related to the Plains All American Pipeline rupture in Santa Barbara in May (see Shale Daily, June 30).

September 14, 2015

New Player Muscles Into Powder River, Buying CBM Wells, Gas Plant

Moriah Group LLC, based in Midland, TX, is becoming one of the biggest operators in Powder River Basin (PRB) after securing a bundle of coalbed methane (CBM) gas wells from WPX Energy Inc. and Anadarko Petroleum Corp., as well as a big natural gas gathering system.

September 3, 2015
Leading Global E&Ps Call for Carbon Pricing to Push Positives of Natural Gas

Leading Global E&Ps Call for Carbon Pricing to Push Positives of Natural Gas

Implementing a widespread and effective price for carbon emissions is critical to realize the "full and positive impact" natural gas can have…

June 1, 2015
Leading Global E&Ps Call for Carbon Pricing to Push Positives of Natural Gas

Leading Global E&Ps Call for Carbon Pricing to Push Positives of Natural Gas

Implementing a widespread and effective price for carbon emissions is critical to realize the “full and positive impact” natural gas can have, the leaders of six leading global producers, including BP plc and Royal Dutch Shell plc, said Monday.

June 1, 2015
Statoil CEO Says Reducing Costs, Lowering Emissions Interlinked Industry Challenges

Statoil CEO Says Reducing Costs, Lowering Emissions Interlinked Industry Challenges

The oil and natural gas industry is facing two huge challenges, improving competitiveness and managing a transition toward a low carbon future, which combined represent "quite a frightening cocktail if we do not manage them in a proper way," Statoil ASA's CEO said.

April 27, 2015
Collaboration Helping to Lower Statoil’s U.S. Onshore Costs, Emissions

Collaboration Helping to Lower Statoil’s U.S. Onshore Costs, Emissions

To improve competitiveness in the oil and gas industry, don't work separately, work together, Statoil ASA CEO Eldar Saetre said…

April 27, 2015
Statoil CEO Says Reducing Costs, Lowering Emissions Interlinked Industry Challenges

Statoil CEO Says Reducing Costs, Lowering Emissions Interlinked Industry Challenges

The oil and natural gas industry is facing two huge challenges, improving competitiveness and managing a transition toward a low carbon future, which combined represent “quite a frightening cocktail if we do not manage them in a proper way,” Statoil ASA’s CEO said.

April 27, 2015