(Reuters, 16.Oct.2024) â Phillips 66 said it will shut its large Los Angeles-area oil refinery late next year, delivering a blow to California’s fuel supply amid complaints about the state’s high prices. Phillips 66 CEO Mark Lashier cited “market dynamics” for the decision. The Los Angeles facility provides lower profits than other company oil processing plants, a […]
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Overview: Shell Deer Park
HOUSTON, TEXAS (Editors at Energy Analytics Institute, 16.Oct.2024) â Just before the Great Depression, Shell became the first manufacturer to call Deer Park home in 1929. At that time, Deer Park had no other businesses or buildings in what is now a bustling community about 20 miles east of downtown […]
Phillips 66 to Cease Operating LA Refinery in 4Q:25
(Energy Analytics Institute, 16.Oct.2024) â Phillips 66 will cease operations at its Los Angeles-area refinery in the fourth quarter of 2025. Phillips plans to work with authorities from the state of California to supply fuel markets and meet ongoing consumer demand. Approximately 600 employees and 300 contractors currently operate the […]
Woodsideâs Record 3Q:24 Production Driven by Sangomar [PDF Download]
(Woodside, 16.Oct.2024) â Woodside Energy reported record third-quarter 2024 production of 53.1 MMboe (577 Mboe/d), up 20% sequentially from the second-quarter 2024 due to ramp-up of Sangomar offshore Senegal, increased uptime across operated assets including 99.9% LNG reliability at Pluto and increased seasonal domestic gas demand. Woodside narrowed its full- […]
Port of Corpus Christi Announces Record 3Q:24 Volumes
(Port of Corpus Christi, 15.Oct.2024) â The Port of Corpus Christi and its customers moved 53 million tons through the Corpus Christi Ship Channel in the third quarter of 2024, a new quarterly high mark driven by increases in crude oil and dry bulk movements. The 53 million tons moved […]
ONEOK Closes Enlink Deal with GIP
(ONEOK, 15.Oct.2024) â ONEOK, Inc. announced the expiration of the waiting period under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976 (the “HSR Act”) and the successful completion of its acquisition of Global Infrastructure Partners‘ (GIP) entire interest in EnLink Midstream, LLC, for a total cash consideration of approximately $3.3bn. The acquisition […]
Arizona Sonoran Initiates Pre-Feasibility Study
(Arizona Sonoran, 15.Oct.2024) â Arizona Sonoran Copper Company Inc. announces that following a request for proposal, ASCU has appointed M3 Engineering, Tucson, to lead the Cactus Project Pre-Feasibility Study (the âPFSâ) and to act as metallurgical program lead. The consultants will include AGP (mining), Clear Creek (hydrology), ALS Geotechnical (geology), […]
Consumer Energy to Expand EV Charging at Michigan WorkplacesÂ
(Consumer Energy, 14.Oct.2024) â Consumers Energy is taking another new step to power Michigan’s electric vehicle transformation by announcing an effort to install EV chargers at workplaces across the state. Consumers Energy expects over 500 workplaces will install charging by 2030. “Consumers Energy is offering new approaches that will drive the […]
Southline Project Selected for Transmission Facilitation
(Southline Transmission Project, 3.Oct.2024) â The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) reaffirmed its confidence in the Southline Transmission Project by selecting Phase 2 of the project as a capacity contract recipient through the second round of the Transmission Facilitation Program. Co-developed by Black Forest Partners and Grid United, Southline is […]
Deadly Houston Fire Highlights Pemexâs Grim Safety Record
(Bloomberg, 14.Oct.2024) â A fatal accident last week at a Houston-area refinery was another reminder of the risks posed by the oil industry that dominates much of the city. The vast Deer Park facility, owned by Mexicoâs state-owned oil company Petroleos Mexicanos, halted some of its operations after a hydrogen […]
U.S. Firms Embrace AI, Cloud for Application Development
(ISG, 14.Oct.2024) â Growing AI and cloud adoption have shaped U.S. enterprisesâ application development and management (ADM) strategies over the past year, according to a new research report published today by Information Services Group (ISG), a global technology research and advisory firm. The 2024 ISG Provider Lensâą Next-Gen ADM Services […]
Kinder Morgan on Trident Open Season
(Energy Analytics Institute, 14.Oct.2024) â Trident Intrastate Pipeline LLC is launching a binding open season to solicit commitments for the construction of its 216 miles of 48- and 42-inch mainline. The open season will begin 14 Oct. 2024, and conclude at 5 p.m. CT on 12 Nov. 2024, Kinder Morgan […]
Pemex Deer Park Scales Back Operations after Accident
(Reuters, 12.Oct.2024) â Mexican national oil company Pemex‘s Deer Park oil refinery near Houston will operate this weekend at a low level following a deadly chemical leak a couple days ago, the company said in a statement late on Friday. The state-owned oil company added that it continues to investigate the cause of […]
Pemexâ general director Padilla provides Deer Park accident update
MEXICO CITY, MEXICO (Energy Analytics Institute, 11.Oct.2024) â PetrĂłleos Mexicanos (Pemex) general director VĂctor Rodriguez Padilla provided an immediate briefing related to the 10 Oct. 2024 accident at the state company’s Deer Park refinery in Houston, Texas. Padilla said a sulfur gas leak at the refinery in Houston impacted 35 workers of […]
Excelerate Energy Announces Changes to Board of Directors
(Energy Analytics Institute, 11.Oct.2024) â Excelerate Energy, Inc. announced that Henry G. Kleemeier retired from the Board effective 9 Oct. 2024, and that Tyler D. Todd has been elected to the companyâs Board of Directors, effective 10 Oct. 2024. Todd will serve on the Compensation and Nominating and Corporate Governance […]
Atlas Energy Commissions Dune Express
(Atlas, 10.Oct.2024) â Atlas Energy Solutions Inc. announced that the commissioning of the Dune Express, a 42-mile long, fully electric conveyor system that is expected to transform proppant logistics in the Permian Basin, began early this week. The system remains on-time and on-budget with the commercial transportation of proppant into […]
CCUS Growth Challenged by Current Economics
(WoodMac, 10.Oct.2024) â Speaking at Wood Mackenzieâs Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage Conference in Houston, Peter Findlay, research director and head of CCUS economics for Wood Mackenzie, said that despite a growing market for carbon capture, utilization and storage (CCUS), economics remain challenging, and many potential projects are at risk. […]
Saguaro LNG Endangers California Marine Life, Activists Warn
(Mexico News Daily, 10.Oct.2024) â Citing concerns over its impact on the Gulf of California, environmental groups are urging the Mexican government to cancel Mexico Pacificâs LNG megaproject in Sonora, a planned liquefied natural gas (LNG) plant and export terminal. The US $14 billion project led by the Houston-based company […]
Saudi Arabia Eyes Boosting Production by 1 MMb/dÂ
(Energy Analytics Institute, 4.Oct.2024) â Saudi Arabia looks to add around 1 MMb/d of production over the next 12-15 months to reach close to 10 MMb/d by the end of 2025, according to a recent Opec report. The production increase is part of a plan by the Kingdom to stop ceding […]
Citgo Auction in Jeopardy as Bondholders Pursue Claims
(Reuters, 9.Oct.2024) â Holders of billions of dollars in Venezuelan bonds and notes have emerged as last-minute protagonists in a U.S. court case set to decide the ownership of oil refiner Citgo Petroleum, threatening to derail an auction to compensate more than a dozen companies for unpaid debts and expropriations […]
APA Corp. Provides 3Q:24 Supplemental Info.
(APA Corp., 9.Oct.2024) â APA Corporation provided supplemental information regarding certain third-quarter 2024 (3Q:24) financial and operational results. This information is intended only to provide additional information regarding current estimates management believes will affect results for the 3Q:24. It is provided to assist investors, analysts and others in formulating their […]
Woodside Completes Tellurian Acquisition
(Woodside, 9.Oct.2024) â Woodside has completed the acquisition of Tellurian Inc. and its US Gulf Coast Driftwood LNG development opportunity. Woodside has acquired all issued and outstanding Tellurian common stock for approximately $900mn cash, or $1.00 per share. The implied enterprise value is approximately $1,200mn. (1) Woodside also announced it […]
Tellurian Executives Enter in Separation Agreement
(Energy Analytics Institute, 8.Oct.2024) â On 8 Oct. 2024, Tellurian Inc. completed its previously announced merger with Woodside Energy. On said date, Woodside and Tellurian entered into a separation agreement and general release with: Daniel A. Belhumeur, President, Tellurian, Samik Mukherjee, President, Tellurian Investments, and Simon G. Oxley, Executive Vice […]
Honeywell to Spin Off Advanced Materials Business
(Honeywell, 8.Oct.2024) â Honeywell announced a plan to spin off its Advanced Materials business into an independent, U.S. publicly traded company, which is targeted to be completed by the end of 2025 or early 2026. Honeywell expects to execute the planned spin in a tax-free manner to its shareowners. As […]
Certification of Grain LNG Terminal Provides Additional Transparency
(MiQ, 8.Oct.2024) â MiQ, a company dedicated to emissions certification, announced certification of the Grain LNG terminal in the United Kingdom, which is Europe’s largest LNG terminal. “The certification of Grain LNG provides UK and European natural gas buyers with additional transparency about the level of emissions from imported LNG. US […]
Noble Announces Major Shareholder Notice from BlackRock
(Noble, 8.Oct.2024) â Pursuant to Section 30 of the Danish Capital Markets Act, Noble Corporation plc hereby announces the receipt of a major shareholder notification from BlackRock, Inc. BlackRock has notified Noble on 7 Oct. 2024 that, as of 1 Oct. 2024, BlackRock’s holdings of indirect shares and voting rights […]
Winter is Coming in Europe as Geopolitical Risks Rise: Rystad EnergyÂ
(Rystad, 4.Oct.2024) â Here is Rystad Energyâs gas and LNG market update from analyst, Christoph Halser: “Norway concludes its gas maintenance season with some disruptions, while hurricanes add further risks to U.S. supply. This comes at an untimely moment, as cold temperatures across Europe are expected to cause a short-term […]
Enbridge Sanctions Pipelines to Support bp’s New Deepwater US GOM Development
(Enbridge, 3.Oct.2024) â Enbridge Inc. will build, own, and operate crude oil and natural gas pipelines in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico for the recently sanctioned Kaskida development, operated by BP Exploration & Production Company (“bp”). The crude oil pipeline, named the Canyon Oil Pipeline System, will be a combination of 24″ and […]
Shell Poised to Add Pipeline Capacity in US GOM
(Shell Pipeline Company, 3.Oct.2024) â Shell Pipeline Company LP announced the Final Investment Decision (FID) for the Rome Pipeline, an offshore pipeline construction project increasing access between Shell’s Green Canyon Block 19 (“GC-19”) pipeline hub platform and the Fourchon Junction facility on the Louisiana Gulf Coast. The pipeline will bring […]
Producers Midstream to Build Gas Facilities in Lea County
(Tailwater Capital, 3.Oct.2024) â Producers Midstream II, LLC, a portfolio company of Tailwater Capital, announced it is constructing a new gathering, treating, and processing system in Lea County, New Mexico. The System will be located in the core of the Delaware Basin, one of the most active oil and gas […]
IsoEnergy Acquires Anfield, Securing Expanded US Uranium Production
(IsoEnergy, 2.Oct.2024) â  IsoEnergy Ltd. and Anfield Energy entered into a definitive agreement (the “Arrangement Agreement“) pursuant to which IsoEnergy will acquire all of the issued and outstanding common shares of Anfield (the “Anfield Shares“) by way of a court-approved plan of arrangement (the “Transaction“). Anfield owns 100% of the Shootaring Canyon Mill (the […]
DMW Marine Expands Workforce to Meet Growing Global Demand
(Energy Analytics Institute, 1.Oct.2024) â DMW Marine Group, which specializes in marine cranes, announced the hiring of nine new service technicians. This move supports the company’s ongoing expansion and enhances its ability to meet the increasing demand for its products and services worldwide, especially in regions like Bahrain, Egypt, Tahiti, […]
Talos Adopts Limited Duration Stockholder Rights Plan
(Talos, 1.Oct.2024) â Talos Energy Inc. announced that its Board of Directors has adopted a limited duration stockholder rights plan (the “Rights Plan”). The Rights Plan is effective immediately and will expire on 1 Oct. 2025, unless approved by Talos stockholders at the company’s next Annual Meeting. The Board may […]
Citgo Share Auction Creditors Oppose Terms of Amber Energy Bid
(Reuters, 1.Oct.2024) â Creditors seeking proceeds from an auction of shares in a parent of Citgo Petroleum to repay them for Venezuela’s expropriations and debt defaults on Tuesday widely criticized terms of a conditional offer selected in the U.S. court’s second bidding round. An Elliott Investment Management affiliate on Friday was named […]
FACTSHEET: enCore’s Rosita ISR Uranium Central Processing Plants & Wellfields
(enCore Energy, 1.Oct.2024) â The Rosita In-Situ Recovery (âISRâ) Uranium Central Processing Plant (âCPPâ) and Wellfield commenced production as of Nov. 2023, according to details on enCore Energy‘s website as of 1 Oct. 2024. The Rosita CPP is located on a 270-acre surface tract, 100% owned by enCore, located central […]
Fission vs. Fusion â Whatâs the Difference?
(Duke Energy, 1.Oct.2024) â Look up during the day to see one of the most powerful examples of a nuclear reactor: the sun. Inside the sun, fusion reactions take place at very high temperatures and enormous gravitational pressures. The foundation of nuclear energy is harnessing the power of atoms by […]
Woodside Completes OCI Clean Ammonia Acquisition
(Woodside, 30.Sep.2024) â Woodside has completed the acquisition of 100% of OCI Clean Ammonia Holding B.V., which holds its lower carbon ammonia project in Texas (Project), from OCI N.V. (together with its affiliates, OCI).1 The completion follows Woodsideâs announcement on 5 Aug. 2024 that it had entered into an agreement […]
Matson Starts Construction of LNG-Powered Containerships
(Matson, 30.Sep.2024) â Matson, Inc. announced the start of construction on the first of three new “Aloha Class” containerships designed for its Hawaii and China-Long Beach Express (CLX) services. After a small ceremony at Philly Shipyard in Pennsylvania, the cutting of steel plates began, initiating the work to build the […]
New Fortress Energy to Delay Dividend Payment
(Energy Analytics Institute, 30.Sep.2024) â New Fortress Energy Inc. will delay the payment of the companyâs previously declared $0.10 per share Class A common stock dividend, with a record date of 13 Sep. 2024, until it reaches an agreement with its noteholders to address the companyâs near-term maturities and liquidity […]
EAIâs NRGBriefs: Sep. 2024
(Energy Analytics Institute, 30.Sep.2024) â Energy briefs as well as others related to finance and projects during Sep. 2024 including Petrobras inking separate MOUs with its Argentine and Surinamese counterparts YPF and Staatsolie; TechnipFMC being awarded two subsea contracts by Petrobras; CNOOC Limited saying the Shenhai-1 Phase II Natural Gas Development […]
Hess gets HSR clearance for Chevron merger
NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK (Hess Corp., 30.Sep.2024, Words: 381) â Hess Corporation announced that the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) antitrust review of the Chevron-Hess merger has been completed, satisfying one of the closing conditions for the transaction. âWe are very pleased that our merger with Chevron has cleared this significant regulatory hurdle,â said CEO John Hess. […]
US LNG Sector to Navigate Uncertainties with Harris or Trump
(S&P Global, 30.Sep.2024) â The 2024 presidential election carries risks and unknowns for US LNG project development, whether Vice President Kamala Harris is elected or former President Donald Trump returns to the Oval Office. The Biden administration’s decision earlier in 2024 to pause key LNG export permits remains a major […]
Exxon Director Joins Elliott Seeking to Acquire Citgo Petroleum
(Reuters, 28.Sep.2024) â Exxon Mobil board director Gregory Goff recently joined a newly formed Elliott Investment Management-backed company seeking to acquire control of Venezuela-owned oil refiner Citgo Petroleum. Citgo and Exxon are rivals in the motor fuels and lubrications business. Exxon is the third-largest U.S. oil refiner by capacity and […]
ConocoPhillips Gets Judge to Approve Seizing of Payments to PDVSA
(Reuters, 27.Sep.2024) â ConocoPhillips on Friday got a Trinidad court to approve the seizing of payments from the Caribbean country to Venezuela’s state oil company for a proposed offshore gas project between the two neighbors. ConocoPhillips has for years been seeking to recover money from Petroleos de Venezuela (PDVSA) for […]
Amber Energy Selected to Acquire Citgo
(Amber Energy, 27.Sep.2024) â Amber Energy Inc. has been selected as the acquirer of PDV Holding, Inc., the parent of Citgo Petroleum Corporation, by Robert Pincus, the Special Master appointed by the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware to oversee the sale of PDV Holding, Inc. Amber Energy is […]
TotalEnergies Acquires Producing Eagle Ford Assets from Lewis Energy
(TotalEnergies, 27.Sep.2024) â TotalEnergies signed an agreement with Lewis Energy Group to acquire a 45% interest in dry gas producing assets owned and operated by Lewis in the Eagle Ford basin in Texas. The acquisition of these low cost and long plateau assets further strengthens TotalEnergiesâ integration across the gas […]
Chevron Agrees Hess CEO Will Not Join Board in Deal with US Regulator, Bloomberg Reports
(Reuters, 26.Sep.2024) â U.S. energy major Chevron has agreed Hess CEO John Hess will not join its board in an agreement with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission to proceed with the $53 billion takeover deal, Bloomberg News reported on Thursday citing people familiar with the matter. The proposed all-stock acquisition, […]
FTC set to greenlight Chevron’s $53bn buy of Hess
HOUSTON, TEXAS (By Reuters, 24.Sep.2024, Words: 429) â The U.S. Federal Trade Commission is expected to greenlight U.S. oil producer Chevron‘s purchase of Hess as soon as this week, two people familiar with the matter said, leaving Exxon Mobil‘s challenge to the $53 billion deal as its final hurdle. The […]
Cemex’s Lower-carbon Materials to Fortify Wastewater Plant in San Francisco
(Cemex, 23.Sep.2024) â As part of San Francisco’s major initiative to sustainably upgrade and modernize infrastructure, Cemex has announced its involvement in reinforcing the City’s largest wastewater treatment plant with its VertuaÂźlower-carbon concrete. The Southeast Treatment Plant’s (SEP) Biosolids Digester Facilities Project will replace the outdated existing solids treatment facilities with more reliable, efficient, and modern […]
Mon Power and Potomac Edison Break Ground on Third Solar Site
(FirstEnergy, 23.Sep.2024) â Mon Power and Potomac Edison, subsidiaries of FirstEnergy Corp., have begun construction on their third utility-scale solar site in West Virginia to help meet the state’s electricity needs and further encourage economic development. The Marlowe solar project is located along Interstate 81 and the Potomac River on a 36-acre property in Berkeley County that was […]