Energy Transition

A partnership led by Spain’s Repsol SA has clinched a contract with Texas officials to store carbon emissions offshore Corpus Christi in an area that covers more than 140,000 gross acres of pore space. According to the project sponsors, the offshore carbon capture and storage (CCS) project would be near more than 35 million metric…

Several carbon capture and storage (CCS) projects are in the works across North America, and researchers may have found a novel way to make them more energy efficient. Researchers from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) recently highlighted how a hidden function of electrodes can attract carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, which then could be converted, allowing…

Efforts to electrify and decarbonize the U.S. economy bode well for the natural gas infrastructure business, according to Williams Companies Inc. CEO Alan Armstrong. “The fundamentals, right now, are better than they have ever been for gas,” Armstrong said during the Barclays CEO Energy-Power Conference in New York.  He cited that since 2014, government forecasts…

Natural gas utility customers rate their service providers higher than electric customers, in part because of the fuel’s lower cost and reliability, according to a recent study by J.D. Power.  In its inaugural Utility Brand Appeal Index (BAI), which surveyed 80,000 residential customers from 149 electric utilities and 85 natural gas utilities over eight months,…

Greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions shrank while Canadian natural gas and liquids byproduct output grew during the 2012-2021 period, according to government records compiled by the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers (CAPP). Annual GHG discharges from gas, condensate and lighter fluids production dropped by 22% to 50 million tons in 2021 from 64 million tons in…

Equinor ASA, whose broad U.S. portfolio stretches from Appalachia into the Gulf of Mexico, is snapping up a quarter-stake in the Chevron Corp.-led Bayou Bend CCS LLC, positioned to be one of the largest carbon capture, utilization and storage (CCUS) projects on the Texas coast. In the agreement with Texas Carbon 1 LLC, a subsidiary…

“The entire energy industry — including the electricity and oil industry — is capital intensive,” Carlos de Regules Ruíz-Funes, expert in the Mexican energy industry and former Executive Director of the National Agency for Safety, Energy and Environment of Mexico (ASEA), told NGI Mexico’s GPI.  “Access to that capital requires meeting higher environmental standards and…

A Canadian startup is targeting 2025 to begin a low-carbon hydrogen blending pilot with local natural gas utility Gas New Brunswick. Fredericton, New Brunswick-based Nu:ionic Technologies Inc. said it plans to deploy its proprietary teal hydrogen technology, which combines elements of the more widely known “blue” and “green” production methods. The teal method utilizes microwave…

Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line Co., the nation’s largest natural gas interstate pipeline system, is partnering with Duke Energy Corp. on a methane monitoring project in North Carolina with about $1 million in funding from the U.S. Department of Energy.  Duke’s Methane Monitoring Platform Extension project would expand on the company’s established monitoring system to work…