natural gas
Methane Progress Should Guide Regulatory Approach
API Upstream Group Director Erik Milito discussed ongoing industry efforts to reduce methane emissions and the risk to emissions reductions progress posed by adding new layers of regulation during testimony this week before the environment subcommittee of the U.S. House…
Europe’s Largest Gas Field Could Face Larger Production Cap
The Dutch Parliament adopted a motion to review production at the Groningen gas field annually, Reuters reported on Thursday. In June, the legislature passed a 5-year output bill that sought to limit the risk of earthquakes linked to production activity…
Department of Energy Announces 16 New Projects to Transform Energy Storage and Conversion
WASHINGTON — The Energy Department’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) today announced $37 million in funding for 16 innovative new projects as part of a new ARPA-E program: Integration and Optimization of Novel Ion-Conducting Solids (IONICS). IONICS project teams are…
Insights from Higher Wind and Solar Generation in Eastern Grid, USA
A new study from the United States Department of Energy’s (DOE) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) used high-performance computing capabilities and innovative visualization tools to model, in unprecedented detail, how the power grid of the eastern United States could operationally…
Gazprom and Edison Discuss Southern Route of Russian Natural Gas Supplies to Europe
A working meeting between Alexey Miller, Chairman of the Gazprom Management Committee, and Marc Benayoun, Executive Vice President of EDF and Chief Executive Officer of Edison, took place yesterday in Milan. The meeting was focused on arranging the southern route…
The Top 10 Public Global Oil Producers In 2016
The following list is based on average daily global oil production for all publicly traded companies during the most recent fiscal quarter. As noted in the article on natural gas producers, some of the largest producers in the world are…
Climate Guru Tells Calif. Governor Not To Close Diablo Canyon Nuclear Plant
On Thursday,a letter to Governor Jerry Brown of California, about how nuclear energy was essential to fighting global warming, was sent by Dr. James Hansen and the leading climate scientists in the world, plus a long list of environmentalists. The…