S. African firm yields to antifrac pressure

Sungu-Sungu Gas Pty. Ltd. has yielded to activist pressure and suspended applications to explore for shale gas in Free State and KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Source: News


Hutchins elected INGAA Foundation chairman

Thomas D. Hutchins, vice-president of environmental, health, and safety for the natural gas business of Kinder Morgan Inc., has been elected by the INGAA Foundation’s board as its new chairman for a 1-year term beginning Nov. 5. Source: News


BHI: Global rig count for October totaled 1,620

Baker Hughes Inc.’s latest monthly global rig count again reflects international declines more than offset by increased drilling in the US, Canada, and the Middle East. Source: News


Abu Dhabi carbon dioxide capture-EOR project starts

Abu Dhabi National Oil Co. and Masdar, the renewable-energy division of state investment firm Mubadala Development Co., have commissioned a commercial-scale project to capture carbon dioxide emitted by a steel plant for use in enhanced oil recovery. Source: News


US midstream industry anticipates surge in ethane demand, exports

With the start of deepwater ethane exports from Sunoco Logistics Partners LP’s Marcus Hook, Pa., terminal in first-quarter 2016 and Enterprise Products Partners (EPP) LP’s terminal at Morgan’s Point, Tex., in the third quarter, the US midstream industry entered a new era. Source: News