EagleClaw commissions West Texas gas plant

EagleClaw Midstream Ventures LLC, a subsidiary of EagleClaw Midstream Services LLC, has commissioned its Toyah I natural gas processing plant in Reeves County, Tex. Source: News


Aramco chairman elevated to Saudi energy minister

Saudi Arabia has appointed Khalid al-Falih, chairman of state-owned Saudi Aramco, to head its new Ministry of Energy, Industry, and Mineral Resources. Source: News


OTC: Higher productivity 'best insurance' for meeting future energy demand, BP exec says

BP PLC has had to make some “very tough choices” and let some “very good people” go in Houston and elsewhere amid an environment that has changed “quite dramatically for all of us” over the last few years, a company executive told attendees May 2 at an opening session of the Offshore Technology Conference in […]


Watching Government: The methane muddle

It looks like a relatively simple problem at first. A substance leaking into the atmosphere is a fuel that operators can sell, seeming to give them every incentive to try and capture it. But methane management has become so political in the US over the last year that it has become a muddle. Source: […]


Gas supply security

About 3 weeks ago, the International Energy Agency hosted a workshop on natural gas supply security at its headquarters in Paris. The purpose of the event was to respond to an agreement at the IEA ministerial meeting in November 2015 to adopt tackling gas supply security as a new mandate for the agency. Source: […]


Energy and the GDP

New economic data underscore one of many perils embedded in the political campaign to constrict development of oil and gas resources in the US. As coincident drops in oil prices and equity values showed earlier this year, wealth generated by hydrocarbon production is crucial to economic growth Source: News


House hearing on BLM's proposed methane rule shows key disagreements

Opponents and supporters of the US Bureau of Land Management’s proposed venting and flaring rule for oil and gas producers quickly defined their main differences at an Apr. 27 House Natural Resources subcommittee hearing. Source: News