Crude Oil
Pennsylvania grand jury blasts DEP, DOH over fracking
The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection and the Pennsylvania Health Department both failed to protect the public health during the state’s Marcellus Shale natural gas boom, according to a scathing ...
Chevron, Shell lead industry’s resilience at $30/Bbl Brent: WoodMac
Chevron and Shell’s upstream portfolios are the most resilient at oil price at $30 a barrel and offer the highest cash margins at $70/Bbl, according to analysts at Wood Mackenzie. ...
19 energy companies have filed for bankruptcy in 2020: law firm
Texas-based Gavilan Resources last month filed for Chapter 11 protection, saying it intends to sell its business and assets. It cited the coronavirus pandemic and the oil price rout along ...
Enbridge to proceed with $500M Line 5 Pipeline tunnel
Enbridge announced Friday that it intends to build a $500 million pipeline tunnel under the Straits of Mackinac after a long and continuing legal fight with the state of Michigan, ...
North Dakota sets May 20 hearing on O&G production cuts
A third state is looking into requiring oil and natural gas production cuts: North Dakota. It would join Texas and Oklahoma that are both considering similar proposals. North Dakota, the ...
Texas, Oklahoma mulling state cuts to oil, gas production
Texas and Oklahoma are both looking at cutting production of crude oil and natural gas because of low prices tied to the coronavirus pandemic and the oil ...
Chesapeake Energy adopts poison pill to block a takeover
Chesapeake Energy has adopted a poison pill shareholder rights plan to protect the company from any takeover attempts due to its low stock prices, Kallanish Energy reports. Last Thursday, the ...
ExxonMobil exports second crude cargo from Guyana
Guyana’s second crude oil shipment left ExxonMobil’s Liza Destiny platform Wednesday and is heading to Panama, Kallanish Energy reports. The new crude oil cargo lifted by the U.S. ...
Energy Transfer wants to nearly double DAPL capacity
Texas-based Energy Transfer, an owner and operator of the Dakota Access Pipeline, wants to increase the pipeline’s capacity by more than 96%, to 1.1 million barrels per day of crude, ...
Wintershall Dea’s production up 9%, costs down 20%
German independent gas and oil producer Wintershall Dea reported this week a 9% increase on its output in 2019 and a 20% reduction on its production costs, Kallanish Energy reports. ...