** A United Nations committee’s recently announced investigation into possible tribal treaty rights violations involving the Line 3 pipeline gives hope to opponents of the Line 5 pipeline in Michigan. ** More than 2,300 oil and chemical spills have been reported in the two weeks since Hurricane Ida, and about 900 have yet to be investigated, but the volume …
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Energy news in brief
**Royal Dutch Shell Plc is gearing up to restart oil pipelines off the U.S. Gulf Coast, potentially moving the region’s top driller one step closer to restoring some production shut by Hurricane Ida. Most of the pipelines will be ready to operate within a week, according to a person familiar with the matter. **OPEC could revise …
Environmental Quality board meeting set for Oklahoma City
The Oklahoma Environmental Quality Board of the State Department of Environmental Quality plans a public forum next week in Oklahoma City. It will be held Tuesday, Sept. 14 after the regular business meeting of the board. The DEQ indicated there is no way to estimate now long the business meeting will last so there …
Energy news in brief
** U.S. energy expenditures, or the amount of money spent by consumers to purchase energy, fell to $1.2 trillion in 2019, down 5% in real terms compared with 2018, according to the latest data in the EIA’s State Energy Data System. ** Cabot Oil & Gas Corporation and Cimarex Energy Co. announced that, in connection …
Energy news in brief
** More than 80% of oil production in the Gulf of Mexico remains shut in after Hurricane Ida, a U.S. regulator said on Monday, more than a week after the storm made landfall and hit critical infrastructure in the region. ** Entergy projects it could be four weeks before power is restored across much of St. Charles Parish …
Energy news in brief
** Divers at the site of an ongoing oil spill that appeared in the Gulf of Mexico after Hurricane Ida have identified the apparent source as one-foot diameter pipeline displaced from a trench on the ocean floor and broken open. Talos Energy, the Houston-based company currently paying for the cleanup, said in a statement issued Sunday evening …
Energy news in brief
** OPEC +’s current production agreement will stay in place per an announcement the group made on Wednesday. It will maintain the 400K bbl/day hike scheduled for October. Reports stated the group took less than an hour to make the announcement. ** A federal court declines to hear Republican-led states’ challenge to the Biden administration’s plans to account …
Energy news in brief
** New Orleans-based utility Entergy Corp. said that 207 transmission lines covering more than 2,000 miles were knocked down by Hurricane Ida’s wrath, and that the approximately 900,000 customers who do not have power in Louisiana and Mississippi may have to wait roughly three weeks for restoration. ** Enerplus Corporation announced that it has entered …
Energy news in brief
** Nearly 95% of Gulf Coast oil and gas production was offline as Hurricane Ida hit New Orleans and the Deep South. ** Top oilfield services firm Schlumberger Ltd. is asking U.S. employees to disclose their COVID-19 vaccine status and said more customers are mandating vaccinations as a condition for working on their job sites, the …
Energy news in brief
** Mexico’s state-owned oil firm Pemex has restored part of the oil production suspended after Sunday’s fatal fire that killed seven people, but the pace of output recovery could be slower than expected because of technical issues including well re-connection, sources familiar with the matter have told Reuters. ** An Australian company’s exploration well likely has tapped into a …