Natural Gas News – December 14, 2018 Closing Coal Plants Unlikely To Affect Natural Gas Prices, Expert Says WBAA reported: As coal plants close around the country, the demand for natural gas is going up. But an expert says it likely won’t have a big effect on Hoosier’s heating bills in the long run. Doug […]
Natural Gas News – December 13, 2018 Exxon Mobil makes final investment decision to develop Australian natural gas project Reuters reported: Exxon Mobil Corp has made a final investment decision to develop the West Barracouta gas field in the Bass Strait to bring new gas supplies to the Australian market, it said in a statement […]
Natural Gas News – December 12, 2018 A Natural Gas Pipeline Explosion in British Columbia Spikes Prices in Portland and Raises Questions About Oregon’s Energy Future Willamette Week reported: In October, a natural gas pipeline ruptured outside a British Columbia town called Prince George, sending a fireball skyward. The aftershocks from that blast are still […]
Natural Gas News – December 11, 2018 Michigan Utilities Target Aging Natural Gas Distribution Lines for Upgrades Energy News reported: In Michigan’s two largest cities, 35 miles of natural gas distribution lines were installed before Theodore Roosevelt was president. Thousands of additional miles of these decades-old bare steel and cast iron gas distribution networks are […]
Natural Gas News – December 10, 2018 China Increases Natural Gas Imports to Avoid Winter Shortage World Oil reported: China has gone all out to avoid a repeat of last winter’s crippling natural gas shortages. The early verdict: so far, so good. China’s gas needs peak for its so-called winter heating season. It’s a time […]
Natural Gas News – December 7, 2018 Feds Discover Largest Oil, Natural-Gas Reserve in History National Review reported: The federal government has discovered a massive new reserve of oil and natural gas in Texas and New Mexico that it says has the “largest continuous oil and gas resource potential ever assessed.” “Christmas came a few […]
Natural Gas News – December 3, 2018 Qatar Says It Will Leave OPEC and Focus on Natural Gas NY Times reported: The tiny, wealthy Persian Gulf state of Qatar will withdraw from OPEC in January, the country’s energy minister said on Monday. The minister, Saad Sherida al-Kaabi, said the move would allow Qatar to focus […]
Natural Gas News – November 29, 2018 Russia Outmaneuvers U.S. LNG Oil Price reported: For years, boosters of U.S. LNG have trumpeted the fact that gas exports from the Gulf of Mexico could break Russia’s grip on the European energy market. That has yet to be the case, and in fact, Russia has managed to […]
Nat Gas News – November 28, 2018 North Dakota OKs Processing Plant Expansion in Effort to Reduce Natural Gas Flaring S&P Global reported: The North Dakota Public Utilities Commission approved a 150 MMcf/d expansion to Kinder Morgan’s Roosevelt gas processing plant in McKenzie County, increasing the total of significant new plants or expansions under construction […]
Nat Gas News – November 27, 2018 Get Your Natural Gas in Texas for 25 Cents, If You Can Reuters reported: Next-day natural gas prices for Tuesday at the Waha hub in the Permian basin in Texas tumbled almost 80 percent to their lowest on record because of limits on the amount of gas that […]
