From Bloomberg/Gulf Times Texas shale drillers are finding their supply chain and manpower tested as they work to get back to normal after Hurricane Harvey. Hard-to-travel roads are still making it tough to deliver sand, a key component in fracking, said chief executive officer Bill Thomas of EOG Resources Inc, whose Eagle Ford operations sit about 100 miles inland from
From Reuters NEW DELHI (Reuters) – India has renegotiated the pricing of liquefied natural gas (LNG) imported from Australia’s Gorgon project to make the imported fuel affordable to price-sensitive domestic customers, Indian oil minister Dharmendra Pradhan said on Saturday. India has been trying to leverage its position as one of the biggest energy consumers to strike better bargains for its
Hess Named to Dow Jones Sustainability Index (DJSI) North America for Eighth Consecutive Year
From the American Lawyer Amnesty International has zeroed in on Cravath, Swaine & Moore, claiming in a Sept. 8 release that the New York firm is refusing to hand over “critical” evidence in long-running litigation against the oil giant Royal Dutch Shell. Esther Kiobel, the widow of a Nigerian dissident who was executed by his country’s government in the 1990s, wants to
From CNBC/Financial Times/Reuters It took eight weeks for the world’s largest floating gas production vessel to be hauled by tugboats from a South Korean shipyard to the spot almost 500km off the north-west coast of Australia where it was moored last month. For the next 25 years this red-hulled Goliath — the length of four football pitches and nine-times the
Tesla’s secretive semi could come with $100k Price: Morgan Stanley From CCJ Not much is known about the electric semi Tesla is expected to debut later this month, including the day and time the truck will be announced. However, Ravi Shanker, an analyst for investment house Morgan Stanley anticipates the cutting edge truck will come with a steeply discounted sticker price when compared
Remote temporary upgrade: an extra 40 miles From the Washington Post As Florida residents fled Hurricane Irma over the weekend, some Tesla owners got a little surprise from the automaker to help them get out of the danger zone. On Saturday, Tesla began pushing a software update that increased the battery capacity of some Model S sedans and Model X SUVs. All the cars
From MENAFN – Arab Times An Amiri decree is on its way to the Kuwaiti Parliament for the approval and implementation of a memorandum of understanding (MoU) signed by the governments of #Kuwait and #Iraq to develop the four shared oil fields in the southern part of Iraq. These four oil fields are Al-Abedeli and Al-Ratqa on the Kuwaiti side, and Al-Rumilah and Safawan
Dudley credits standardization, simplification In a talk he gave last week at the Society of Petroleum Engineers Offshore Europe conference in Aberdeen, BP CEO Bob Dudley said his company has cut production costs by half in the North Sea. “This focus on standardization, simplification and discipline on cost has contributed to our average production costs in the North Sea coming
From Reuters Buckeye Partners LP expects to resume limited operations at its Yabucoa oil terminal in Puerto Rico later on Thursday as Hurricane Irma leaves the area, but said power is still out in the region. The U.S.-based midstream company, which had closed the 4.6-million-barrel terminal on Wednesday, said all employees are safe and accounted for after the storm. “Our
From the San Antonio Business Journal San Antonio-based refining company Valero Energy Corp. will soon be able to move up to 60,000 barrels of gasoline and other refined products per day from its facilities in Houston to the suburbs of Austin. Valero (NYSE: VLO) announced on Wednesday morning that its subsidiary V-Tex Logistics LLC entered into a construction deal with
USCF Files to Add Two “Contango-Killer” Products to Their Commodity Brand (Tickers: USOP, UNGP)
