** The I-40 bridge over the Mississippi river separating Arkansas and Tennessee reopened over the weekend after a massive crack was discovered in early May.
** Mexico’s state power utility has struck a deal with Canada’s TC Energy Corp to develop a natural gas pipeline in the country’s south and consolidate the firm’s contracts in the central region, the utility said on Sunday according to Online Media.
** The Whistler Pipeline began full commercial service on July 1st, 2021 providing approximately 2.0 billion cubic feet per day (Bcf/d) of incremental natural gas transport capacity to the Texas Gulf Coast markets from the Permian basin, which will help ensure sufficient reliable gas takeaway and reduce natural gas flaring in the Permian basin.
** NuStar Energy L.P. announced Monday that it has entered into an agreement to sell its storage terminals in the Northeast and one terminal in Florida to Sunoco LP for $250 million.
** News Corp announced Monday that it has entered into an agreement to acquire the Oil Price Information Service (OPIS) and related assets from S&P Global and IHS Markit in a $1.150 billion cash deal.
** California Gov. Gavin Newsom declares a state of emergency and seeks to ease grid strain by paying industrial users to cut back on power use, fast tracking permitting for new power sources and waiving air quality rules to allow big power consumers to use diesel generators.
** The Dakota Access pipeline operator is at odds with a North Dakota oversight board over the public release of thousands of pages of documents involving a private security company and pipeline protests five years ago.
** The Tennessee Valley Authority demolishes its oldest coal-fired power plant, one of six it has retired since 2012.
** CenterPoint Energy and a dozen other utilities statewide filed applications that, if approved, would allow the state to spread the $3.6 billion cost of gas during the winter storm over a period of 10+ years according to Fuel Fix.
** The Senate Energy Committee is meeting Tuesday to consider Geraldine Richmond to be Under Secretary at DOE for Science; Cynthia Weiner Stachelberg to be an Assistant Secretary of the Interior (Policy, Management, and Budget); and Asmeret Berhe to be director of DOE’s Office of Science according to POLITICO.
** A federal judge issued an order on Friday to seize a Singaporean-owned oil tanker for allegedly shipping oil into North Korea.