December 21, 2015

From Gulf News. … if oil prices drop further Iraq may not benefit from any increase in production as that may not be sufficient to pay the IOCs. Something has to give and a substantial review of the policy is in order, especially in discarding the views that still call for a production target of 9mbd by 2020. No wonder the

From WETM TV. A year after New York’s fracking ban was announced, fracking opponents are launching a new campaign. They want to stop projects that might transport, by pipeline, fracked natural gas or oil. Activists want Governor Cuomo to deny all pending water quality certification applications for new natural gas, petroleum and crude oil infrastructure projects, including the proposed Constitution Pipeline that would

From KTIC Radio/AP. Work has resumed on development of a 50-mile natural gas pipeline dubbed the Northeast Nebraska Line that will run from Bancroft to Norfolk. According to reports, Black Hills Energy first announced the project last year after a Houston-based company said it planned to build a manufacturing plant in Norfolk. But falling oil prices interrupted those plans. Continue reading article…

From the Charlotte Business Journal. Duke Energy has chosen Piedmont Natural Gas executive Frank Yoho to run Duke’s new natural gas platform after the $4.9 billion Piedmont purchase closes next year. Yoho, 56, is Piedmont’s chief commercial officer, with responsibility for such projects including Piedmont’s involvement in the Atlantic Coast Pipeline. He will join Duke’s senior management committee, reporting directly

Story by the Houston Chronicle Wind and solar power are winners in the Paris climate deal and will benefit from the federal budget compromise, but a Houston power company CEO stresses that natural gas-fired power … will both work with and compete against renewable power to replace coal power, Calpine Corp. President and CEO Thad Hill, who participated in the Paris