Emissions

Shell plc’s energy transition strategy got a thumb’s up Tuesday from shareholders during an annual general meeting that was disrupted for hours by protestors. During a live feed of the proceedings in London, demonstrators shouted insults and sang protest songs, which led Chairman Andrew Mackenzie to formally delay the event. Before police arrived, some protestors…

A newly installed natural gas-powered fuel cell at Atmos Energy Corp.’s corporate data center generates low-emission, grid-independent electricity, and the Dallas-based utility is finding more ways to curb emissions as its multistate customer base grows. “Natural gas once again proves it plays a pivotal role in lowering greenhouse gas emissions while increasing reliability to our…

The Ballymore oil and natural gas project in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico (GOM), which would be developed using a three-mile subsea tieback to reduce costs, has gotten a thumb’s up to proceed.  The Mississippi Canyon prospect, with design capacity of 75,000 b/d of crude oil, would be tied back to the Chevron-operated Blind Faith…

A group of more than 50 natural gas companies responsible for a sizable chunk of U.S. supply is urging the White House and European Commission to develop a unified global standard for directly measuring methane emissions from the wellhead to the burner tip. Our Nation’s Energy Future, aka ONE Future, comprises companies throughout the natural…

Nearly 200 MMcf/d of the natural gas that ExxonMobil produces at Poker Lake, NM, in the Permian Basin have been independently certified for methane emissions management, the supermajor said Tuesday. The certification from MiQ is the first by a company for its associated gas production from oil, ExxonMobil said. The certification process also is being…

Natural gas pipeline and storage provider DT Midstream Inc. (DTM), with a portfolio that includes 900 miles of regulated interstate pipelines, said Wednesday it would join a rapidly growing project aimed at better understanding the energy industry’s role in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. A day later, Houston-based Kinder Morgan Inc. (KMI), one of the largest…

If U.S. natural gas infrastructure is not expanded to meet growing demand, prices would escalate and more electricity generation is likely from renewables, coal and nuclear sources over the next three decades, according to federal researchers. In the U.S. Energy Information (EIA) Annual Energy Outlook 2022 (AEO2022) issued in March, the reference case – the…

Oilfield services (OFS) giant Baker Hughes Co. is partnering with Microsoft Corp., as well as C3.ai Inc. and Accenture plc, to deploy industrial asset management (IAM) solutions for the energy industry. Sectors likely to be impacted are oil and gas, renewable energy and thermal power generation, among other industries. Houston-based Baker Hughes is one of…

Houston-based Occidental Petroleum Corp. has clinched its first agreement to sell up to 200,00 b/d of net-zero emissions oil over five years to South Korea’s SK Trading International, an indication the direct air capture (DAC) project in West Texas may proceed. Oxy, as it is better known, has begun preliminary work on its massive DAC…