July 8, 2021 archive

Energy news in brief

** Liberty Oilfield Services Inc. has successfully completed the rigorous field testing of Liberty’s digiFrac electric pump, the company announced Wednesday. DigiFrac is the industry’s first purpose-built fully integrated electric frac pump with high power density and significantly lower emissions relative to the best next generation frac technology available in the market. ** Federal data show wind …

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Firm illegally stores hundreds of old wind turbine blades in Iowa

  Iowa’s environmental regulators are asking their state attorney general to investigate an out-of-state wind turbine manufacturer for illegally storing hundreds of wind turbine blades in three Iowa towns. The Iowa Capital Dispatch reported the firm, Global Fiberglass Solutions Inc. stored 1,300 turbines in the towns and missed deadlines to either bury them in landfills …

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Cushing’s crude oil supplies reverse and increase

    Days after reports indicated there was a drop in supplies of crude oil at the Cushing hub, the American Petroleum Institute said Wednesday they had increased. The API reported U.S. inventories of crude oil fell 7.98 million barrels over the past week but supplies at Cushing were up 152,000 barrels. Gasoline inventories were …

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Renewed enforcement power helps New Mexico oil agency

  Ever since it regained enforcement power in 2020, New Mexico’s Oil Conservation Division has been in a race to issue citations and plug abandoned oil and gas wells in the state. According to the Santa Fe New Mexican, the agency also handed out its first fines in more than a decade. Click here for …

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