Companies in compliance program have option to either purchase allowances or directly reduce their emissions In July 2017, California’s state legislature passed assembly bill (AB) 398 to reauthorize and extend until 2030 the state’s economy-wide [Read more]
Production continued to increase through price fluctuations in Bakken and Permian basins U.S. crude oil production reached 10.038 million barrels per day (b/d) in Nov. 2017, according to EIA’s latest Petroleum Supply Monthly. Nov. production is [Read more]
As of 2016, 670,000 of 977,000 producing wells in the United States were hydraulic fractured and horizontally drilled In 2016, hydraulically fractured horizontal wells accounted for 69 per cent of all oil and natural gas [Read more]
Dual-fuel generators can now specify the percentage of fuels they plan to use and the costs for each fuel The bomb cyclone weather event in early Jan. 2018 resulted in record levels of U.S. natural gas demand [Read more]
Previous years, Canada received most U.S. crude oil exports because exports to other markets were banned From late Aug. through Sept. 2017, Hurricane Harvey caused disruptions to the U.S. Gulf Coast refining sector, resulting in record-high U.S. [Read more]
Recent growth in natural gas consumption has almost all been in electric power sector Significant growth in natural gas production over the past decade—primarily from the Marcellus and Utica shales in the Appalachian Basin—have increased gross natural gas [Read more]
Both hydro and wind generation follow seasonal patterns As one of the first technologies used to generate electricity, hydroelectric power has historically provided the largest share of renewable electricity generation in the United States, according [Read more]
Former President Barack Obama introduced fracking rules in an effort to ensure public safety on federally-owned lands. Getty Images photo by David McNew. Fracking rules address public safety on federal lands California’s Attorney General Xavier [Read more]
Saudi Aramco owns the Port Arthur Texas refinery. Beaumont Enterprise photo by Guiseppe Barranco. Saudi Aramco controls a refinery in Texas According to a report by Reuters, Saudi Aramco, the giant oil and natural gas company [Read more]
SoCal gas blowout in Porter Ranch community, Los Angeles, California “Recent air quality reports document that we’re still being poisoned.” Southern California Gas Company (SoCal), the company responsible for a blowout at a natural gas [Read more]
Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Short-Term Energy Outlook, natural gas Non-hydro renewables’ share of total US utility-scale generation to exceed 10% for first time in 2019 EIA’s Jan. 2018 Short-Term Energy Outlook (STEO) forecasts that natural gas will remain [Read more]
Growth in Permian Basin projected to associated natural gas production, national output reaches 4.6 million b/d by 1019 In its Jan. 2018 Short-Term Energy Outlook (STEO), the EIA forecasts that total fossil fuels production in the United [Read more]
Natural gas-fired power plants supplied 32% of total US electricity in 2017, coal supplied 30% Wholesale electricity prices at major trading hubs in the eastern United States during 2017 were relatively unchanged from 2016, while [Read more]
US net pipeline imports from Canada continued to decline in 2017 In 2017, natural gas spot prices at the national benchmark Henry Hub in Louisiana averaged $3.01 per million British thermal units (MMBtu), about 50 [Read more]
T. Boone Pickens suffered series of strokes in late 2016 In a letter posted on LinkedIn on Friday, T. Boone Pickens says “Today, I’ve decided to walk off the job for a third time and [Read more]
Pipeline imports from Canada increased during this period, partially offsetting some of the production declines During the recent cold weather event that affected much of the eastern United States, more natural gas was withdrawn from [Read more]
Offshore drilling for all US coasts ok’d by Trump last week Reuters reports that governors and other officials from a number of US coastal states are pressuring the Trump administration to exempt their waters from [Read more]
In early spring, California’s total solar share of electricity demand exceeded 50% during mid-day hours Once final data are in, EIA expects about 25 gigawatts (GW) of new utility-scale electric generating capacity to have been [Read more]
Since 2008, most retirements in Texas were generators using natural gas steam and petroleum technologies Nearly all of the utility-scale power plants in the United States that were retired from 2008 through 2017 were fueled [Read more]
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