Thursday, December 4, 2025

Killer Whales Pose Newest Threat to Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain Pipeline

By Bloomberg News  Kinder Morgan Inc. will have to address the fate of one more group before completing its Trans Mountain pipeline expansion: killer whales. Less than a month after Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced the approval of a plan to almost triple the capacity of Canada’s only oil pipeline to the Pacific coast, the environmental law group Ecojustice filed

Industrial Gas Giants Linde + Praxair Agree $65 Billion Merger Outline with $1 Billion Cost Savings

From Reuters German industrial gases group Linde (LING.DE) and U.S. suitor Praxair (PX.N) have agreed to an outline for a $65 billion-plus merger, with the combined company to be called Linde that would be run out of the United States by Praxair’s chief executive from Praxair’s offices in Connecticut. The agreement, unveiled on Tuesday, comes after Praxair provided new assurances

U.S. LNG Exports could Surge to 3 Bcf/day in 2017

From Argus Houston, 21 December (Argus) — The US LNG industry expects another landmark year in 2017, with export volumes set to more than double to a gas equivalent of at least 3 Bcf/d (85mn m³/d). The US likely would be the fifth- or sixth-largest exporter in the world in 2017 by volume, depending on how quickly some new liquefaction