Energy Transition

Rockies Express Pipeline (REX), which moves 4.4 Bcf/d to Midwest markets from key producing basins in the Rockies and Appalachia, is set to become the nation’s first interstate natural gas transmission system certified by Project Canary. REX owner Tallgrass Energy LP announced the multi-year partnership with Project Canary on Tuesday.  “This first-of-its kind engagement underscores…

Southern California Gas Co. (SoCalGas) has agreed to pay up to $1.8 billion in three settlement agreements stemming from the country’s largest ever methane leak in 2015 at the Aliso Canyon natural gas storage facility.* The agreements announced Monday “are expected to resolve substantially all material civil litigation against SoCalGas” related to the incident, the…

Global oil demand should plateau earlier than estimated, likely before 2030, but natural gas will continue to play a key role in the energy transition, TotalEnergies said Monday. The Paris-based multi-energy major provided its third annual short-term forecast in the Energy Outlook (EO) 2021. Ahead of the upcoming United Nations (UN) Climate Change Conference, also…

California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Friday signed into law Senate Bill (SB) 423 to accelerate the deployment of “firm zero-carbon resources” for electricity production. The bill was one of 24 signed Friday alongside a $15 billion spending package focused on climate and clean energy efforts, as well as wildfire and drought resiliency. SB 423 defines…

A dozen of the world’s largest 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 Tuesday it has set more stringent targets to…

“The biggest challenge for our customers is to get reliable, affordable and efficient financing for their projects,” Asger Victor Hansen, founder of Kauil Energy in Mexico City, told NGI’s Mexico GPI in the latest installment of its interview series.  Hansen, who is a native of Denmark, founded Kauil Energy, a startup solar energy company, in…

Aerial methane measurements taken during August in the Permian Basin indicate the oil and gas industry continues to have issues in controlling flaring and venting, the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) said Thursday. The EDF’s ongoing Permian Methane Analysis Project, aka PermianMAP, is collecting methane emissions from the air, via towers and on the ground across…

Tennessee Gas Pipeline (TGP) and Southwestern Energy Co. have clinched an agreement to move certified natural gas supply to the Northeast beginning in November. Kinder Morgan Inc. subsidiary TGP, through its existing system, would transport Southwestern’s  Appalachia supply that is certified as responsibly sourced gas (RSG). Certified gas is produced and transported by companies whose…

DT Midstream has an enviable market, delivering natural gas across the United States and into Canada, but a new project in the Haynesville Shale is looking to the discriminating cadre of overseas customers that want carbon-neutral fuel. CEO David Slater, who delivered a keynote address in Chicago earlier this month at the LDC Gas Forums-Midcontinent,…