Energy Transition

Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf, a Democrat in the second-largest U.S. natural gas-producing state, approved an act boosting tax credits for natural gas use by billions over decades.  Act 108, enacted from House Bill (HB) 1059 and dubbed the Pennsylvania Economic Development for a Growing Economy (PA EDGE), amends the Keystone State’s tax code to bring…

Curbing methane leaks from oil and natural gas operations would increase supplies pledged to Europe and help to reduce the impacts from climate change under a proposed rulemaking by the Biden administration. The updated rulemaking issued Friday (Nov. 11) by the U.S. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) would impact thousands of natural gas and oil…

Shell plc is collaborating with General Electric Gas Power to research methods of adapting LNG turbines to efficiently use 100% hydrogen made with renewable energy in an effort to decarbonize its global liquefaction projects. Shell Global Solutions, the supermajors’ global resource development and liquefied natural gas unit, has signed a framework agreement with GE to…

Zero emissions transportation-centered Nikola Corp. is partnering with Keystate Natural Gas Synthesis LLC to bring what may be Pennsylvania’s first blue hydrogen and chemicals production facility.  KeyState’s planned 7,000-acre production facility is to feature commercial-scale carbon capture and storage (CCS) for a blue hydrogen, ammonia and urea production facility. Nikola and KeyState are in the…

PureWest Energy LLC, which develops natural gas reserves in Wyoming’s Green River Basin, has clinched an agreement to provide 30,000 MMBtu/d of independently certified supply to a West Coast end-user.  The Denver producer did not provide details about the end user or the pricing mechanism. However, the “one-year agreement is priced at a premium to…

The global push to reach net-zero emissions and meet the world’s future energy needs will cost trillions of dollars and require far more than renewable technologies, according to energy executives. “We’re still at that very early phase where we make these grand pronouncements and we’ve tried to jumpstart the machine without fully understanding, communally, the…

The state sponsor of the proposed Alaska LNG export project has submitted a proposal for an Alaskan hydrogen hub to the Department of Energy (DOE) it says will extend the project’s potential to send low-carbon energy to Asia, reducing global greenhouse gas emissions. The Alaska Gasline Development Corp. (AGDC) is the latest state agency to…

With one innovative carbon sequestration project underway in the Permian Basin, Occidental Petroleum Corp. is laying the groundwork to add more carbon fighting measures in South Texas. Oxy, as it is known, and subsidiary 1PointFive in August officially launched construction of their first large-scale direct air capture (DAC) plant, which is set to begin sucking…

Chevron Corp.’s New Energies business and Japan’s JERA are looking to leverage their lucrative LNG partnerships and collaborate on “multiple” low-carbon opportunities in the United States and Asia Pacific region. Developments to be considered include low-carbon fuels production, hydrogen, new technologies, as well as carbon capture and storage (CCS). They now are partners in liquefied…