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Natural Gas, Oil Operators Able to Draw on Federal Funding to Mitigate Methane Emissions

Natural Gas, Oil Operators Able to Draw on Federal Funding to Mitigate Methane Emissions

Federal funding is on tap to alleviate the costs for natural gas and oil producers to reduce and monitor their methane emissions. The energy sector makes up 40% of total methane emissions from human activity, with gas and oil operations responsible for 80 million metric tons of these emissions, according to the International Energy Agency. …

September 8, 2023
Alaska LNG Project Lands Private Partner, Plans to Seek Federal Funding to Launch $5.9B First Phase

Alaska LNG Project Lands Private Partner, Plans to Seek Federal Funding to Launch $5.9B First Phase

Alaska is pursuing federal funding and partnering with a private firm to jumpstart a long-simmering pipeline project to export North Slope natural gas. Tim Fitzpatrick, spokesman for the state-owned Alaska Gasline Development Corp. (AGDC), told NGI that Alaska aims to begin the first phase of the state’s liquefied natural gas (LNG) pipeline and export plant…

February 8, 2021
Aging Natural Gas Infrastructure Rehab Targeted by DOE Grants

Aging Natural Gas Infrastructure Rehab Targeted by DOE Grants

More than $30 million in federal funding has been directed to 10 different research projects aimed at developing advanced natural gas transmission pipeline retrofitting technology to rehabilitate existing cast iron and bare steel pipes in the United States, the Department of Energy (DOE) said. To keep pace with the growing domestic gas industry, DOE’s Under…

August 17, 2020