US oil refiners hope fat is way out of lean times
California’s goals for cleaner motor fuels are sparking changes at big US oil refiners, as they retool to make a form of diesel from cooking oil cast off by restaurants Continue Reading
Drilling Productivity Report
The Drilling Productivity Report (DPR) rig productivity metric new-well oil/natural gas production per rig can become unstable during periods of rapid decreases or increases in the number of active rigs and well completions. The Continue Reading
CFTC Report: Financial Markets Under Threat From Climate Change
When an advisory panel chartered by the Commodities Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), one of the Trump administration’s regulatory agencies, warns, unanimously, that climate change threatens the stability of our financial Continue Reading
US EPA denies 17 small refineries waivers to 2011-18 biofuel mandates
Prices for Renewable Identification Numbers rose slightly after the US Environmental Protection Agency on Sept. 14 denied 17 small oil refiners’ requests to waive the federal biofuel blending mandate retroactively Continue Reading
Trump Pledges to Allow E15 Ethanol in E10 Pumps
President Donald Trump promised to allow higher-ethanol gasoline to be distributed using existing filling station pumps, a move designed to bolster support among corn farmers and biofuel producers in Iowa Continue Reading
New Break in Greenland’s Largest Ice Shelf Signals Rapid Melting
As the summer melt season reaches its peak, the largest Arctic ice shelf has jettisoned a piece of ice twice the size of Manhattan. The Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland Continue Reading
How Climate Migration Will Reshape America
August besieged California with a heat unseen in generations. A surge in air-conditioning broke the state’s electrical grid, leaving a population already ravaged by the coronavirus to work remotely by the Continue Reading
A Secret Recording Reveals Oil Executives’ Private Views on Climate Change s
Last summer, oil and gas-industry groups were lobbying to overturn federal rules on leaks of natural gas, a major contributor to climate change. Their message: The companies had emissions under Continue Reading
Colombia’s Oil Major Plans To Drill 100 Wells In The Permian
Colombia’s state-held oil firm Ecopetrol, which has a strategic alliance with Occidental Petroleum to develop acreage in the Permian, plans to have drilled as many as 100 wells in the Continue Reading
Retirements, layoffs, labor force flight may leave scars on U.S economy
Judith Ramirez received a letter this month that she’d been dreading: The Honolulu hotel that furloughed her from a housekeeping job in March, during the lockdown triggered by the coronavirus Continue Reading