Watching Government: ASCE's troubling report card

The American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) gave US transportation systems barely a passing grade, D+, when it issued its 2017 Infrastructure Report Card on Mar. 9. Energy systems received the same mark, with potential problems looming for electricity as well as oil and gas.   Source: News

A global experiment

Two months into their historic experiment, agreements to cut oil production in support of crude prices provide more questions than answers. Source: News

Dharma and gas

Executives of Energy Transfer Partners LP (ETP)breathed sighs of relief during January and February when newly inaugurated US President Donald J. Trump signed an executive order to advance work on the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the Army Corps of Engineers subsequently granted an easement needed to complete construction on the project. Source: News

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Patton, Braden added to Howard Midstream’s leadership team

Howard Midstream Energy Partners LLC (HEP) has added Roy Patton as chief commercial officer and executive vice-president and Brett Braden as general counsel and senior vice-president. Both appointments are effective immediately. Source: News

If climate science is established, why do more research?

If the science of climate change really is “established”, as popular media insist, what’s wrong with cutting federal spending on climate research, as President Donald Trump’s budget proposes to do? Source: News

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BP slashes stake in New Zealand refinery by nearly half

BP PLC has completed the partial sale of its subsidiaries’ collective 21.19% ownership interest in New Zealand Refining Co. Ltd.’s (Refining NZ) 107,000-b/d refinery at Northland, in Marsden Point, New Zealand, near Whangarei. Source: News