Since mid-2017, East Coast refiners have been receiving as much crude oil by tanker and barge from the Gulf Coast as they have by rail from the Midwest. Bloomberg photo. Shipments to East Coast refiners [Read more]
According to the most recent results from EIA’s Residential Energy Consumption Survey (RECS), about one in five households reported reducing or forgoing necessities such as food and medicine to pay one of their energy bills, and 14 [Read more]
Decline in CO2 emissions in residential, commercial sectors mostly due to milder weather U.S. energy-related carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions in 2017 fell to 5.14 billion metric tons, 0.9% lower than their 2016 levels, and coal [Read more]
Cheap natural gas replacing coal and nuclear for electricity generation in United States Electricity generators that use fossil fuels continue to be the most common sources of electricity generation in most states. In all but [Read more]
In 2016, energy consumption for all activities in the United States amounted to 301 million British thermal units (Btu) of energy per person (per capita), a 1 per cent decrease from the level in 2015 [Read more]
Tropical Storm Gordon shut down offshore at some US Gulf of Mexico oil platforms on Tuesday as the storm, expected to strengthen to a category 1 hurricane, shifted eastward. NOAA NWS National Hurricane Center photo. Tropical Storm [Read more]
The CEO of Schlumberger told an audience at a Barclays conference in New York on Tuesday that Permian pipeline bottlenecks will likely slow growth in oil production and investments in the area. San Antonio Express-News photo [Read more]
Data from the US Energy Information Administration released on Friday showed US crude production rose to record highs in June. Linn Energy photo. US crude output hit 10.674 million b/d in June US crude output [Read more]
A number of pipe and energy companies are complaining that the Trump steel tariffs are costing them millions of dollars and the process to obtain exemptions from the tariffs is unfair and slow moving. Reuters [Read more]
The Permian basin in western Texas and eastern New Mexico is expected to account for more than half of the growth in crude oil production through 2019. Dallas Morning News photo. Permian basin production to [Read more]
In April 2018, crude oil exports from port district of Houston-Galveston surpassed crude oil imports by 15,000 barrels per day (b/d), and in May 2018, the difference between crude oil exports and imports increased substantially [Read more]
North Carolina has the most PURPA-qualifying solar capacity, with 2.9 GW of qualifying capacity, all of which is solar photovoltaic. Only 0.4 GW of North Carolina’s utility-scale solar capacity is not certified as qualifying. GreenStatePower.com photo. [Read more]
According to the US Energy Information Administration, the primary cause of the downward trend in coal inventories has been the retirement of coal-fired generating capacity. Greg Goebel photo via Wikimedia Commons. Coal inventories held by [Read more]
The Energy Policy Act of 2005 created the Renewable Fuel Standard, and by the end of that decade, most motor gasoline sold in the United States was blended with 10 per cent fuel ethanol by [Read more]
US refineries are running at record levels in response to robust domestic and international demand for motor gasoline and distillate fuel oil. Phillips 66 photo. US refineries responding to high demand for motor gasoline and [Read more]
According to the US Energy Information Administration, US natural gas pipeline exports to Mexico have grown from 0.9 Bcf/d in 2010 to more than 4.3 Bcf/d through April 2018. Natural gas pipeline capacity into the South [Read more]
The Trump administration said on Tuesday that it will no longer require oil drillers, miners or other industries to pay for damage they inflict on public lands while working under permitted projects. iStockphoto photo. Oil [Read more]
Petroleum accounts for 56% of island’s power generation mix , geothermal is 20%, wind is 11%, small-scale solar photovoltaic is 9%, hydropower is 5% Lava flows from the Kilauea volcano on the island of Hawaii led to [Read more]
The escalating trade war between the Washington and Beijing is cutting into US liquified natural gas exports bound for China as fewer vessels carrying US LNG have sailed for the Asian country over the past [Read more]
In the West Texas plains, the booming frack sand business is surprising residents of the vast, windswept area. Within 12 months, 11 frack sand mines opened up and about another 10 are in a rush [Read more]
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