The state-run Bangladesh Power Development Board (BPDB) has signed a joint-venture agreement with China Huadian Hong Kong Company Ltd. to build a 1,320-megawatt coal-fired power plant in Bangladesh. The JV expects within a month to begin construction on the $2 billion power plant project at Moheshkhali Island in Cox’s Bazar district, 415 … Read more
TransCanada may begin preliminary work on its $8 billion Keystone XL oil pipeline project in Montana this coming autumn, with full construction in 2019, Kallanish Energy reports. That possibility emerged last week in a letter from the U.S. State Department to Native American tribes in Montana. The April 10 letter states the Assiniboine … Read more
French oil major Total reached record production in the first quarter of 2018, posting 5% growth year-over-year, despite the expiration of the Mahakam permit in Indonesia, Kallanish Energy reports. The company’s oil and gas output reached 2.70 million barrels of oil-equivalent per day (MMBOE/d) during the January-March period, compared to 2.56 MMBOE/d a year earlier. … Read more
New York State regulators have denied a permit for a pipeline expansion designed to increase natural gas deliveries to New York City, The Associated Press reports. The Northeast Supply Enhancement project proposes to expand the Transco pipeline system, which extends from Texas to the Northeast coast. It would include installation of 17 … Read more
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission said last week it will issue a license to utility Florida Power & Light for two new nuclear reactors at Turkey Point, south of Miami, doubling the number of reactors onsite. Juno Beach, Fla.-based FPL has sought an operating license from the NRC since 2009 for the … Read more
EDP Renewables and four other companies have partnered with a Northern California power provider to develop the first U.S. offshore wind farm to feature advanced floating turbines, the group said, in a statement. The Redwood Coast Energy Authority (RCEA), a local government authority that provides electricity to most of California’s Humboldt County, solicited bids for … Read more
U.S. liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports quadrupled in 2017, with shipments to 25 different countries, says the U.S. Energy Information Administration. The volume of shipments increased from 0.5 billion cubic feet per day (Bcf/d) in 2016, to 1.94 Bcf/d in 2017, it said. All the shipments originated from Cheniere Energy’s Sabine Pass … Read more
Chinese and Russian state oil companies PetroChina and Rosneft will not pay the costs of repairing and modernizing Venezuela’s Cardón and Amuay refineries for PDVSA, according to union sources. Ivan Freites, senior official of the Venezuelan Unions Federation of Oil Workers, told local newspaper El Nacional the foreign partners decided after lengthy … Read more
Chinese and Russian state oil companies PetroChina and Rosneft will not pay the costs of repairing and modernizing Venezuela’s Cardón and Amuay refineries for PDVSA, according to union sources. Ivan Freites, senior official of the Venezuelan Unions Federation of Oil Workers, told local newspaper El Nacional the foreign partners decided after lengthy … Read more
The Appalachian Basin remains a very busy place. Nearly 2,300 drilling permits were issued in 2017 in the three-state basin, with 1,036 of those wells being spud, said energy consultant Timothy Knobloch. That includes 1,377 Pennsylvania permits, 462 Ohio permits and 459 West Virginia permits, said Knobloch, president of James Knobloch Petroleum Consultants, of Marietta, Ohio. … Read more
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