Energy transition

Click here to listen to the latest episode of NGI’s Hub & Flow podcast in which the fundamentals impacting the Mexican natural gas market are explored. In this latest podcast, NGI’s Mexico Gas Price Index Senior Editor Christopher Lenton speaks to renowned Mexico energy expert Gonzalo Monroy about the hottest topics impacting the natural gas…

Natural gas demand in Mexico stayed resilient through pandemic-ravaged 2020 compared to total energy demand, in line with trends seen globally, according to BP plc. Mexico’s natural gas consumption dipped only 1.9% year/year to 3.11 exajoules in 2020, while the country’s total primary energy consumption plunged 14.2% to 6.48 exajoules, according to BP’s Statistical Review…

The Department of Interior may have paused federal oil and natural gas leasing, but it is looking to deploy 30 GW of offshore wind capacity on nearly every U.S. coast by 2030. A competitive lease sale to kick things off is planned in the New York Bight, with other auctions eventually expected offshore the West…

Six U.S. projects designed to advance direct air capture (DAC) technology to snatch carbon emissions from the atmosphere are the focus of a new federal funding effort. The Department of Energy (DOE) is deploying $12 million for research and development (R&D) underway to remove carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from the air. Funding is being directed…

Houston-based Nacero Inc. has awarded engineering firm Bechtel Corp. a front-end engineering and design (FEED) contract for a natural gas-to-gasoline manufacturing facility in Penwell, TX. The plant would be the first natural gas-to-gasoline plant in the United States, according to Nacero. The company’s 115,000 b/d plant near Odessa, TX, in the Permian Basin also would…

Privately held Northeast Natural Energy (NNE) plans to have natural gas production across its entire operating area in West Virginia environmentally certified by two companies. Certification would be based on separate standards developed by Equitable Origin (EO) and MiQ to validate it is producing what the industry has coined as “responsibly” sourced gas production. If…

The United States has the most attractive market for renewable energy investment following the Biden Administration’s plan to transition to a lower-carbon power grid as part of the $2.25 trillion American Jobs Plan, according to rankings data from IHS Markit.  The rankings put the United States in the number one spot for the period ending…

Piñon Midstream LLC has begun construction of a sour gas treating and carbon capture facility in Lea County, NM, that when completed in July would have capacity to treat about 85 MMcf/d of Permian Basin natural gas. The plant, dubbed the Dark Horse Facility, would treat gas produced in the Permian’s Delaware sub-basin. The project…

Recovering natural gas and oil prices, combined with cost cutting measures, sent ExxonMobil profits soaring in the first quarter, sending a strong signal that the global economy’s thirst for energy is rising. First quarter profits jumped to $2.7 billion (64 cents/share), from a loss of $610 million (minus 14 cents) in 1Q2020 and the loss…