A federal appeals court vacated the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation’s (NYSDEP) denial of a water-quality certificate to the proposed Northern Access natural gas pipeline project on Feb. 5. The US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit remanded the matter back to the state agency with instructions to more clearly articulate its […]
Irkutsk Oil lets contract for East Siberian ethylene-polyethylene plant
Irkutsk Polymer Plant, a subsidiary of Irkutsk Oil, has let a contract to Toyo Engineering to build a grassroots ethylene-polyethylene plant in Ust-Kut, in the Irkutsk Region of East Siberia. As part of the contract, Toyo will deliver engineering, procurement, and technical advisory services for both precommissioning and commissioning of the plant that, once completed, […]
Essar buying UK logistics assets from BP
Essar Oil UK Group will acquire logistics assets from BP serving the 200,000-b/d Stanlow refinery near Ellesmere Port, UK, which it bought from Royal Dutch Shell in July 2011. Essar will acquire an equity stake in the UKOP pipeline, a share of the contractual joint venture with Shell that runs the Kingsbury Terminal, and a […]
Trump calls for bipartisan cooperation to achieve America’s destiny
US President Donald Trump called on the 116th Congress to reject the politics of revenge and retribution for compromise and the common good in his 2019 State of the Union address. “I am ready to work with you to achieve historic breakthroughs for all Americans,” he told a packed US House of Representatives chamber in […]
ExxonMobil reports two discoveries offshore Guyana
ExxonMobil Corp. reported additional discoveries offshore Guyana with the Tilapia-1 and Haimara-1 wells in southeastern Stabroek block, bringing the total discoveries on that block to 12. The latest discoveries contributed to an estimated resource of more than 5 billion boe. Source: News
ADNOC lets Ghasha construction contract
Abu Dhabi National Oil Co. has let a construction contract that shows the extent of its offshore Ghasha sour gas development project. Under the $1.36-billion contract, National Marine Dredging Co. of Abu Dhabi will build 10 artificial islands and two causeways and expand Al Ghaf island, ADNOC said. Source: News
SemCAMS commissions Wapiti gas plant
SemCAMS, a subsidiary of SemGroup Corp., has completed startup of its Wapiti sour gas processing plant to serve Montney producers in the Wapiti region of the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin. The 200-MMcfd plant began processing raw sour gas on Jan. 27 and is now fully operational, more than 2 months ahead of the original Apr. […]
MARKET WATCH: NYMEX crude oil price drops awaiting inventory report
Light, sweet crude oil for March delivery dropped to settle below $54/bbl on the New York market Feb. 5 as participants awaited a weekly US government report on oil and product inventories. Oil prices continued to decline on Feb. 6 after the American Petroleum Institute released weekly inventory data late Feb. 5 showing US crude […]
CNX remediates Utica shale well
CNX Resources Corp., Pittsburgh, said it remediated the Shaw 1G well in Washington Township, Westmoreland County, Pa., “to arrest a subsurface flow of gas.” The operator responded to a pressure anomaly observed while it was hydraulically fracturing the Utica shale well during the last week of January. Source: News
US House Energy and Commerce Democrats restate demand for EPA enforcement data
US House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone Jr. (D-NJ) and chairs of two subcommittees sent a letter to US Environmental Protection Agency Acting Administrator Andrew Wheeler reiterating their demand for documents and information on what they consider the agency’s lack of enforcement action. Source: News