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A trio of world-class oil majors — Chevron Corp., Statoil ASA and Repsol YPF — on Thursday launched an ambitious endeavor to jointly explore Atlantic Canada’s deepwater. Separately Chevron and Statoil, a newcomer to Canada’s offshore, also agreed to partner in a deepwater region of Canada’s Beaufort Sea.

A trio of world-class oil majors — Chevron Corp., Statoil SA and Repsol YPF — on Thursday launched an ambitious endeavor to jointly explore Atlantic Canada’s deepwater. Separately Chevron and Statoil, a newcomer to Canada’s offshore, also agreed to explore a deepwater region of Canada’s Beaufort Sea.

The latest applicant seeking authorization to export liquefied U.S. natural gas to world markets is also the one seeking to export the most: 2.8 Bcf/d. The recent application from Gulf Coast LNG Export LLC is under completeness review at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), which is not yet disclosing any more details.

The latest applicant seeking authorization to export liquefied U.S. natural gas to world markets is also the one seeking to export the most: 2.8 Bcf/d. The application from Gulf Coast LNG Export LLC is under completeness review at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), which said it wouldn’t disclose more details until the review is finished.

In the world of shale gas plays, the Haynesville is rather long in the tooth compared to the Eagle Ford, Marcellus and others. However, wells in the play are running “faster” for longer, enough so that production has continued to climb while the rig count has dropped. Analysts at Goldman Sachs said they’ve figured out how the Haynesville does it.

In the world of shale gas plays, the Haynesville is rather long in the tooth compared to the Eagle Ford, Marcellus and others. However, wells in the play are running “faster” for longer, enough so that production has continued to climb while the rig count has dropped. Analysts at Goldman Sachs said they’ve figured out how the Haynesville does it.

The race to break through the Midcontinent bottleneck and flow expanding supplies of crude oil, bolstered by shale production to the Gulf of Mexico (GOM) and world markets moved up by about 300,000 b/d with separate announcements last Wednesday of plans to reverse the flow of the Seaway crude oil pipeline, and a possible go-ahead for the Cushing to the GOM southern section of the stalled Keystone XL oil pipeline.

The race to break through the Midcontinent bottleneck and flow expanding supplies of crude oil, bolstered by shale production to the Gulf of Mexico (GOM) and world markets moved up by about 300,000 b/d with separate announcements Wednesday of plans to reverse the flow of the Seaway crude oil pipeline, and a possible go-ahead for the Cushing to the GOM southern section of the stalled Keystone XL oil pipeline.

Kinder Morgan Inc.’s (KMI) acquisition of El Paso Corp. is taking place in a world of growing gas supply from nonhistoric basins, which is driving the need for new and different infrastructure: gas and liquids pipelines, processing, fractionation, etc. It’s too soon to say how a combined KMI-El Paso will play the infrastructure game, but consolidation among others shouldn’t be a surprise, energy analysts told NGI.