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Anadarko’s Mozambique LNG Sees FID in 1H2019

Anadarko’s Mozambique LNG Sees FID in 1H2019

Anadarko EVP Mitch Ingram said that the Mozambique LNG project appears to be in position to take FID (Final Investment Decision) in the first half of 2019. Ingram was speaking at an energy conference this week.

He also noted that …

Blackbird Energy Reports Record Quarter

Blackbird Energy Reports Record Quarter

Blackbird Energy, Inc. (TSX-V:BBI) announced that for the three months ended April 30,2018 the company achieved a record high of $6.4 million ($49.81/BOE) of petroleum and natural gas sales, a 94% increase year-over-year for Blackbird.

Blackbird was only able to …

EnLink to Build “Avenger” Crude Gathering System in the Northern Delaware

EnLink to Build “Avenger” Crude Gathering System in the Northern Delaware

EnLink Midstream Partners, LP (NYSE: ENLK) and EnLink Midstream, LLC (NYSE: ENLC) announced today that the partnership will construct a new crude oil gathering system in the Northern Delaware Basin called the Avenger Crude Oil Gathering System.

The project is …

Weekly Oil Storage: Massive Draw

Weekly Oil Storage: Massive Draw

The EIA released its weekly Petroleum Status Report today, outlining how national oil and refined product stocks have changed in the last week.

Crude oil stocks fell by 9,891 MBBL last week to 416,636 MBBL from 426,527 MBBL. This is …

Kinder Morgan, Blackstone, Apache Plan to Launch the Permian Highway

Kinder Morgan, Blackstone, Apache Plan to Launch the Permian Highway

New Permian Basin gas pipeline will carry 2 Bcf/d from Waha to Gulf; sponsors already considering upsizing to 48-inch due to early demand

Permian gas producers may have relief on the horizon, as Kinder Morgan (ticker: KMI), Blackstone-backed EagleClaw Midstream, …

GE Reshuffles Its Full Portfolio: Baker Hughes Will Go

GE Reshuffles Its Full Portfolio: Baker Hughes Will Go

GE’s position in BHGE is worth $23.1 billion

Less than two years after General Electric (ticker: GE) announced it would acquire Baker Hughes, GE has changed its mind, and will divest the company. This came in an announcement today in …

Oasis Petroleum Divests Non-Core Bakken, its Largest Sale since 2014

Oasis Petroleum Divests Non-Core Bakken, its Largest Sale since 2014

Oasis Petroleum (ticker: OAS) continued its portfolio shift today, selling properties in the Williston Basin in two transactions.

Oasis has agreed to sell its Foreman Butte position and some non-operated assets to buyers that the company declined to disclose. In …

Judge Throws Out Calif. Cities’ Climate Change Suits against Five Oil Producers

Judge Throws Out Calif. Cities’ Climate Change Suits against Five Oil Producers

Northern California U.S. District Judge William Alsup has dismissed the climate change lawsuits filed against BP (NYSE: BP), Chevron (NYSE: CVX), ConocoPhillips (NYSE: COP), Exxon Mobil (NYSE: XOM), and Shell (NYSE: RDS.A)  by the cities of San Francisco and Oakland.…

June 26, 2018 - 3:31 pm Closing Bell Story‎, Law, Oil and Gas 360 Articles
USGS Now Estimates 8.5 Billion Barrels of Oil, 66 Tcf of NatGas in the Eagle Ford

USGS Now Estimates 8.5 Billion Barrels of Oil, 66 Tcf of NatGas in the Eagle Ford

Also 1.9 billion barrels of natural gas liquids 

The United States Geological Survey has released a new assessment upping its estimate of the volumes of hydrocarbons in the Eagle Ford Group of Texas. The USGS said the formation contains an …

Wind is Getting Big, but How Big?

Wind is Getting Big, but How Big?

In Texas wind is big: it’s in the top two states for wind power plants

Electricity generation from wind in the United States has increased from about 6 billion kilowatthours (kWh) in 2000 to about 254 billion kWh in 2017, …

DOE is Landlord to the World’s Fastest Computer

DOE is Landlord to the World’s Fastest Computer

The recently launched IBM-built Summit supercomputer was announced as No. 1 at ISC High Performance in Frankfurt, Germany. And the DOE has it. The U.S. Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) is the official home to what has …

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Canadian Shutdown Wipes Out Half of OPEC’s Production Boost

Canadian Shutdown Wipes Out Half of OPEC’s Production Boost

A Syncrude transformer failure takes 360 MBOPD offline

On Friday OPEC secured an agreement to add production back onto the market in order to avoid a possible oil shortage due to declining production in Venezuela and Iran.

A disruption in …

More North Sea Gas: Shell Returns to Overlooked Fram Field with New Plan

More North Sea Gas: Shell Returns to Overlooked Fram Field with New Plan

Downsized development will use tieback

Shell’s recent $556 million sale of North Sea properties has not diminished the company’s interest in the basin, as Shell has approved its second North Sea project this year.

The Fram field is getting a …

R&D Arm of Baker Hughes-GE Flips: New Tech Incubator Aims to Quickly Monetize Innovation

R&D Arm of Baker Hughes-GE Flips: New Tech Incubator Aims to Quickly Monetize Innovation

Repurposed research center becomes Energy Innovation Center of North America – an incubator tasked with launching disruptive tech startups, and providing access to venture capital to quickly monetize new technologies

Taking a page from Silicon Valley, Baker Hughes, a GE …

How Does Production from Your State Compare to the World?

How Does Production from Your State Compare to the World?

With U.S. production of oil and gas setting all-time records—at both a country and state level— providing some scale for statewide production can bring new perspective to the size of the shale boom.

To make the measurement, EnerCom Analytics identified …

U.S. Rig Count Sees Largest Decrease Since November

U.S. Rig Count Sees Largest Decrease Since November

In the major basins rig increase is nil; but oil popularity nears all-time high

Drilling activity fell this week, marking the second straight decrease in operational rigs, according to Baker Hughes’ Weekly Rig Count.

A net seven rigs shut down …

OPEC Meeting: Our Goal Going Forward is to Reduce Cuts to the 100% Compliance Mark

OPEC Meeting: Our Goal Going Forward is to Reduce Cuts to the 100% Compliance Mark

OPEC meeting result: oil production from OPEC member countries is to increase until the  over-compliance with 2016’s agreed cuts has been eliminated

The anticipated 174th Meeting of the Conference of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) concluded in …

WPX Energy, Delaware basin. Three drilling rigs on multi-well pads. L to R: Orion Drilling, Pegasus on the CBR 22-10H, Aries on the CBR 22-14H.

How WPX has Avoided the Takeaway Problem in the Permian Basin: An Oil & Gas 360® Exclusive

Last week a new report was released that detailed a “stunning” production forecast for the Permian. The Permian is forecasted to more than double its 2017 oil production level of 2.5 MMb/d to 5.4 MMb/d by 2023, according to IHS …

OPEC: Too Close to Call - Oil & Gas 360

Invited U.S. Shale Brass Weigh In Ahead of OPEC Meeting

“OPEC needs to fulfil its duty – none of us wants $80 to $100 oil” – Scott Sheffield

OPEC’s meetings this week are mostly dominated by the heads of member countries’ national oil companies, but at least two top officers …

Some Relief for Permian Producers will Soon Dock in Texas

Some Relief for Permian Producers will Soon Dock in Texas

Seaway Crude plans to load first supertanker at Texas City – it’ll be the first VLCC to be loaded at a Texas port: Enterprise

Seaway Crude Pipeline Company LLC, the joint venture between Enterprise Products Partners LP (ticker: EPD) and …

EIA Power Plant Tally: Gas Plants Still Lead New Generation Capacity

EIA Power Plant Tally: Gas Plants Still Lead New Generation Capacity

NatGas combined cycle plants were 40% of proposed total capacity additions

The EIA has released its report on utility-scale power plants planned and built in the United States and natural gas continues to lead the way.

Power plant developers told …

Weekly Gas Storage: Steady Build Continues

Weekly Gas Storage: Steady Build Continues

The EIA released its weekly Natural Gas Storage Report today, outlining how national natural gas stocks have changed in the last week.

In total, the EIA reports natural gas stocks rose by 91 Bcf last week, increasing to 2,004 Bcf …

Shell Simplifies Portfolio with $1.3 Billion Asset Sales

Shell Simplifies Portfolio with $1.3 Billion Asset Sales

North Sea, Malaysia properties sold

Shell (ticker: RDS) continued its divestiture program today, selling assets in the North Sea and Malaysia for a combined $1.3 billion.

Shell is simplifying its position in the North Sea, selling its interests in two …

Present Day Middle Eastern Game of Thrones – Part Two

Present Day Middle Eastern Game of Thrones – Part Two

[EDITOR’S NOTE: this is the final installment of the OAG360 story in which Helen El Mallakh, director of the International Research Center for Energy and Economic Development (ICEED), discusses the changing political scene and the shifting geopolitical sands that are …

Weekly Oil Storage: Another Large Draw

Weekly Oil Storage: Another Large Draw

The EIA released its weekly Petroleum Status Report today, outlining how national oil and refined product stocks have changed in the last week.

Crude oil stocks fell by 5,914 MBBL last week to 426,527 MBBL from 432,441 MBBL. This is …

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World Will Rely on Shale for Future Production Growth: Kaplan

Dallas Fed chief sees global energy markets retaining “fragile equilibrium” during the next few years

Kaplan said that because of the recent years’ reduced investments in large offshore and oilsands projects that can take many years and many millions up …

Effective Rig Count Approaches 3,000

Effective Rig Count Approaches 3,000

U.S. shale plays are expected to produce 7.34 MMBOPD and 69.76 Bcf/d this July, a new record for overall output: EIA

EnerCom has released the latest Effective Rig Count, examining the state of drilling activity in major shale basins.

The …

Present Day Middle Eastern Game of Thrones – Part One

Present Day Middle Eastern Game of Thrones – Part One

“The Middle East shapes energy politics, energy crises, and it has a huge impact on geopolitics” – Helen El Mallakh

Ahead of the upcoming 174th OPEC meeting in Vienna, Austria, (scheduled for Friday, June 22, and immediately followed by …

Bohrturm, Österreich: Weißer Hof 2014

Baytex Energy and Raging River to Create 100 MBOEPD Company

Combined company targets 100 MBOEPD in 2019 with $750 million CapEx budget

After a quiet first quarter, Canadian M&A activity has been busy in Q2 2018, with two major producers merging today.

Baytex Energy (ticker: BTE) and Raging River Exploration …

Cheniere Energy to Acquire Cheniere Partners; Charters an LNG Carrier

Cheniere Energy to Acquire Cheniere Partners; Charters an LNG Carrier

Cheniere Energy, Inc. (NYSE American: LNG) announced today that it has reached a definitive agreement to acquire all of the publicly-held shares of Cheniere Partners Holdings (NYSE American: CQH). Cheniere Partners Holdings shareholders will receive a fixed ratio of 0.475 …