Energy Transition

A natural gas certification pilot is set to begin this month at Tokyo Gas Ltd.’s properties in the Haynesville Shale of Texas and Louisiana as part of an agreement with Project Canary. Under the pact announced Monday, Project Canary would install continuous emissions monitors and carry out its proprietary TrustWell operational certification on several well…

Mexico President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has sent to legislators a proposed energy reform that would do away with the sector’s two main regulators and limit private sector competition in the electricity market. The reform, if passed, would modify the constitution to eliminate upstream oil and gas regulator Comisión Nacional de Hidrocarburos (CNH) and midstream,…

Privately held Chisholm Energy Holdings LLC plans to install air emissions monitors at some Permian Basin production facilities in southeastern New Mexico as it works toward becoming certified by Project Canary. Sponsored by Warburg Pincus and Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan, the Permian exploration and production (E&P) company expects to become the first independent working in…

Natural gas is expected to overtake coal and become the second-largest fuel in the energy mix by 2045, but the long-term demand outlook is tempered somewhat by the rise in renewable energy and efficiencies, according to the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC). Natural gas demand is projected to increase from 64.2 million boe/d…

U.S. midstream giant Williams has partnered with Denmark’s Ørsted A/S to co-develop hydrogen or synthetic natural gas facilities powered by renewable energy. The companies signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to identify ways to leverage Ørsted’s renewables and hydrogen expertise with Williams’ natural gas infrastructure and processing experience to develop the projects. In particular, they…

Seven years after it was announced, the PennEast Pipeline has been canceled following repeated regulatory and legal setbacks that have increasingly complicated other natural gas infrastructure projects across the country.  PennEast scrapped the project on Monday following what it said was “extensive evaluation and discussion” among its five member companies. The project battled landowners, environmental…

A coalition of leading U.S. natural gas operators, including Devon Energy Corp., EQT Corp., Sempra, Southern Company and Williams, on Friday launched an initiative to accelerate and verify standards to reduce facility methane leaks. The Veritas project, created by researcher GTI, is dubbed the Differentiated Gas Measurement and Verification Initiative. The collaboration of industry, scientists,…

Canadian midstream giant Enbridge Inc. is investing up to $100 million in the U.S. renewable natural gas (RNG) sector as part of its strategy to lower its carbon footprint. The company is partnering with Vanguard Renewables, a developer of farm-based anaerobic digestion facilities that convert food waste and dairy manure into RNG. The agreement announced…

A dozen of the top global oil and natural gas producers, whose goal when they came together was to cut emissions from their upstream businesses, have increased the targets for methane and carbon to 2025. The CEO-led Oil and Gas Climate Initiative (OGCI), launched in 2014, said last week it has set more stringent targets…