** Kinder Morgan said a Monday fire on its El Paso Natural Gas Pipeline (EPNG) near Coolidge, Arizona that killed two people and injured another had been extinguished and the pipeline segment remained shut.
** Cheniere Energy, Inc. announced that its wholly owned subsidiary, Cheniere Corpus Christi Holdings, LLC intends to offer, subject to market and other conditions, Senior Secured Notes due 2039. The CCH 2039 Notes will be fully amortizing according to a fixed sculpted amortization schedule with semi-annual payments of principal and interest.
** Southwestern Energy Company based in Spring, Texas announced that it is commencing, subject to market conditions, a registered underwritten public offering of $1,000,000,000 aggregate principal amount of senior notes due 2030.
** A U.S. Navy diver who helped efforts to search for bodies in the Mississippi River after the I-35W bridge collapsed returned his awards Monday to protest the Line 3 oil pipeline. John Miller, 39, of Monticello asked Gov. Tim Walz to issue an immediate stay on construction of the pipeline replacement project until lawsuits challenging its approval play out in court.
** Bakken Energy and Mitsubishi Power Americas on Monday announced they are acquiring a financially troubled synthetic natural gas plant in western North Dakota and plan to redevelop it to produce renewable energy.
** Enverus, the leading energy data analytics and SaaS technology company, has announced that PureWest Energy has agreed to use its Enverus ESG™ Analytics capabilities for its environmental, social and governance (ESG) benchmarks and scoring.
** The Biden administration says it will vote against international banks’ funding of coal- and oil-based projects, with a few exceptions.
** Kairos Aerospace, the leading identifier of oilfield methane leaks and emissions, announced the closing of its $26 million Series C-1 funding round, led by DCVC. Returning investors OGCI Climate Investments, John Crane, a Smith Group company, and Energy Innovation Capital (EIC) also participated.
** Federal officials declare a first-ever shortage on the drought-addled Colorado River after Lake Mead drops to all-time low levels, triggering water cutbacks for Arizona, Nevada, and Mexico.
** Wyoming’s energy regulators unveil an all-of-the-above strategy embracing fossil fuels and renewables to reach net-zero carbon emissions.
** A coalition of U.S. solar panel companies is asking the Commerce Department to apply tariffs on solar panel and module imports from Malaysia, Vietnam and Thailand, arguing that companies are using those countries to avoid tariffs on Chinese solar equipment.
