Infrastructure

Coal needs to be apart of a future energy landscape in which more renewables, efficiency and changing demand patterns are straining the nation’s grid, according to a panel of industry executives examining “big picture policy” on Wednesday at the Wells Fargo Securities Energy Symposium in New York City.

Efforts are under way in North Dakota and California to provide alternatives to diesel in trucks operating in the states’ oil and natural gas fields.

Houston, the nation’s energy epicenter, is facing uncertainty across the natural gas and oil industry in 2015 on low oil prices, mergers and potential bankruptcies, but booming petrochemical plant construction and expanding exports may offset some of the negativity, the Greater Houston Partnership (GHP) said.

Liquefied Natural Gas Ltd.’s Bear Head LNG Corp. has applied to the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) for authorization to export natural gas to Canada for a 25-year period in support of its Nova Scotia liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal project.

BP plc had begun restructuring its global businesses following the Macondo well blowout in 2010, and the blowout in oil prices is going to require more belt-tightening, executives said Wednesday

The United States should account for about 15% of the global growth in natural gas use for heavy-duty vehicles by 2040, with a 10% share of the domestic market sector, ExxonMobil Corp. is forecasting.

The latest data from Capacity Center on the top pipeline capacity traders show that Marcellus/Utica shale country is the most active region for pipeline capacity trading as asset management agreement (AMA) deals between producers and marketers have grown larger and longer in term.

Natural gas is often called a “bridge fuel” to cleaner energy production, but a researcher in the Netherlands believes that natural gas pipelines can be a bridge for the renewable gas hydrogen.

Developments in the natural gas vehicle (NGV) sector accelerated at the end of November, led by the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation’s (PennDOT) request for industry help in developing 37 public access compressed natural gas (CNG) fueling stations for public transit systems around the state.