Jude Hislop

Pioneer Natural Resources, Odessa project saves millions of gallons of fresh water

20 miles of 24″ pipe from Odessa’s reclamation plant to one of Pioneer Natural Resources water supply facilities Pioneer Natural Resources Company says the start-up of a 20-mile, $25 million infrastructure project will save water and cut costs for both the company and the City of Odessa. “This is the right thing to do for the environment,

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Bluestone Natural buys bankrupt Quicksilver assets for $245 million

BlueStone’s says buying Quicksilver assets complements existing holdings in Barnett Shale, South Texas TULSA, Okla. – BlueStone Natural Resources says it has bought Texas-based Quicksilver Resources for $245 million in a bankruptcy auction. The United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware approved Tulsa-based BlueStone Natural Resources II, LLC as the buyer of the domestic oil and gas

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Energy storage for solar systems will be $8 billion global market in 2026

Energy storage, combined with falling distributed solar power costs, will accelerate adoption of solar in coming years Energy storage systems for distributed solar are gaining market traction and should be worth $8 billion in 2026, according to a new study from Lux Research. Solar-plus-storage is key for solar to overcome limitations like intermittency and the lack

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Baker Hughes sees big drop in 2015 North American revenue

Baker Hughes revenue for 2015 was $15.7 billion, down $8.8 billion compared to$24.6 billion for 2014 HOUSTON, Texas – Baker Hughes, soon to be merged with oil services giant Halliburton, is reporting a profit despite the challenging global price environment, the company reported last week. “Our 2015 results are reflective of an extremely difficult and increasingly

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East Coast winter storm was a whopper: 1M customers without power

Duke Energy was utility with most outages – nearly 500,000 customers losing power in North Carolina, South Carolina The severe winter storm that began Friday, Jan, 22, and continued through Saturday damaged energy infrastructure throughout much of the eastern United States, according to the US Energy Information Administration. Heavy snowfall, high winds, and ice knocked out

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Warren Equity, Multifuels establish new midstream oil/gas company

Multifuels will be targeting natural gas for power plants, petrochemical plants, industrial complexes, LNG export facilities A growing Texas economy and an expanding LNG export sector were the reasons behind the formation of a new Houston-based midstream company created by Warren Equity Partners and Multifuels, L.P. Multifuels, L.P. is contributing an existing natural gas pipeline that supplies a utility

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Howard Energy proposes refined products pipeline from Texas to Mexico

In US, project is new terminal located in near Corpus Christi and 141-mile pipeline between Robstown, TX and new terminal in Laredo, TX Howard Midstream Energy Partners, LLC (HEP) announced today that its subsidiary, Dos Águilas, LLC plans to permit, construct and operate its proposed Dos Águilas project, an open access system of refined products terminals

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Oil, gas dominate global energy demand to 2040 – Exxon Mobil forecast

Exxon Mobil projects oil/natural gas will remain dominant fuels in future despite gains in nuclear, wind, solar power By Institute for Energy Research, Jan. 28, 2016 Earlier this week, Exxon Mobil released its energy outlook, forecasting that global energy demand will grow by 25 per cent by 2040 and that oil and natural gas will capture

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