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DOE Awards Carbon Capture, Storage Project Funding

DOE Awards Carbon Capture, Storage Project Funding

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has awarded $11.5 million in funding for 12 research projects as part of Phase One of the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy’s (ARPA-E) FLExible Carbon Capture and Storage (FLECCS) program.  To adapt to conditions in an environment with high variable renewable energy (VRE), FLECCS projects awarded funding are to develop…

July 16, 2020
McDermott Emerges from Chapter 11, with $4.6B Wiped from Debt

McDermott Emerges from Chapter 11, with $4.6B Wiped from Debt

Houston-based McDermott International Ltd. has emerged from voluntary bankruptcy and cleared nearly all of its $4.6 billion debt off the books. The engineering, procurement and contracting (EPC) giant, which launched restructuring through Chapter 11 early this year, emerged with a $2.4 billion letter of credit capacity and $544 million of funded debt. “We will continue…

July 2, 2020
Dow Aiming to Stop Plastic Waste, Lower GHG Emissions

Dow Aiming to Stop Plastic Waste, Lower GHG Emissions

Dow Inc. has outlined a series of initiatives in order to combat plastic waste and achieve carbon neutrality by 2050. In its recently issued 2019 Sustainability Report, Michigan-based Dow said that by 2030, it would reduce its net annual carbon emissions by 5 million metric tons (mmt), or 15% from its 2020 baseline. Additionally, the…

June 30, 2020
Q&A with Lisa Viscidi on Mexico’s Natural Gas Market Development

Q&A with Lisa Viscidi on Mexico’s Natural Gas Market Development

Editor’s Note: NGI’s Mexico Gas Price Index, a leader tracking Mexico natural gas market reform, is offering the following question-and-answer (Q&A) column as part of a regular interview series with experts in the Mexican natural gas market. This 33rd Q&A in the series is with Lisa Viscidi, Director of Energy, Climate Change & Extractive Industries…

June 26, 2020
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