The Western Energy Alliance and North Dakota Petroleum Council jointly sued the US Bureau of Land Management and US Forest Service, charging that the agencies developed amended land use plans for the greater sage grouse that impose restrictions on new oil and gas leases and on development of existing leases. Source: News

When the world’s leading governments committed last fall in Paris to cut greenhouse gas emissions enough to reduce global climate change impacts, one immediate question was where natural gas would fit. That concern has only grown as the administration of US President Barack Obama has tried to move aggressively to curb methane emissions from oil […]

Full-potential development of natural gas in the Eastern Mediterranean remains a distant hope. Yet gas from deepwater fields off Israel, Cyprus, and Egypt and from discoveries yet to be made in the region could solve many problems. Source: News

Lower oil and natural gas prices are apparently not enough to dissuade some energy companies from continuing important research and development work. Source: News

Relative silence on energy so far in the US presidential campaign provides a blank tablet for speculation. Source: News

Republican committee members and several witnesses leveled some of the strongest criticism yet of the US Department of the Interior’s proposed 2017-22 Outer Continental Shelf oil and gas program at a May 19 US Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee hearing. Source: News

Enterprise Products Partners LP (EPP), Houston, has commissioned a cryogenic natural gas processing plant in Eddy County, NM, along with associated gas and NGL pipelines to handle growing production of NGL-rich natural gas in the Delaware basin. Source: News

The overall US oil and gas drilling rig count recorded its smallest decline of the year thus far, shedding just 2 units—both targeting gas—to settle at 404 rigs working, according to Baker Hughes Inc. data. Source: News

Canada’s National Energy Board (NEB) has recommended approval of Kinder Morgan Inc.’s Trans Mountain Expansion (TMX) project. The project will add 980-km of pipeline, largely in the existing line’s corridor, boosting crude throughput from Edmonton, Alta., to Burnaby, BC, to 890,000 b/d from 300,000 b/d. Likely export destinations include Asia, California, and Washington state. […]

Timothy L. Dove, president and chief operating officer of Pioneer Natural Resources Co., Dallas, has been named president and chief executive officer of the company to succeed Scott D. Sheffield, who will retire at yearend. Source: News