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  • Volume 117, Issue 11

    • Volume 117, Issue 11

    Nov. 4, 2019 | MPLX LP’s natural gas gathering and processing complex in Houston, Pa., collects up to 1.2 bcfd of Marcellus gas, can process 700 MMcfd, and has C2+ fractionation capacity of 100,000 b/d. Oil & Gas Journal’s Appalachian Operations special report (p. XX) details upstream, midstream, and downstream activity in the region. Photo from MPLX LP.
    Rendering from FLNG.
    Artist rendering of Freeport LNG facility. In September, Freeport LNG Development LP (FLNG) shipped the first LNG commissioning cargo for Train 1 from its liquefaction facility on Quintana Island in Freeport, Tex.
    General Interest

    LNG production ramps up amid wave of new project FIDs

    Nov. 4, 2019
    LNG production has ramped up amid a wave of new project final investment decisions (FID) that could launch the worldwide market into an oversupplied state well into the late 2020s...

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    General Interest

    Deloitte: Optimizing shale well designs could boost Eagle Ford, Permian economics

    Nov. 4, 2019
    Deloitte’s research suggests that if Eagle Ford and Permian basin shale operators were to fully optimize well designs, they could generate respective capital efficiency gains ...
    General Interest

    PwC: US oil, gas deals trended down in 3Q

    Nov. 4, 2019
    After the second-quarter megadeal spike, oil and gas deal activity resumed its downward trend in the third quarter, according to analysis by PwC US.
    General Interest

    BP reports lower year-over-year 3Q profits

    Nov. 4, 2019
    BP PLC reported third-quarter underlying replacement cost profit of $2.3 billion, down from $3.8 billion a year earlier.
    General Interest

    ConocoPhillips posts $3.1 billion in 3Q earnings

    Nov. 4, 2019
    ConocoPhillips reported third-quarter earnings of $3.1 billion compared with third-quarter 2018 earnings of $1.9 billion.
    General Interest

    Hess reports net loss for third quarter

    Nov. 4, 2019
    Hess Corp. reported a net loss of $205 million in this year’s third quarter compared with a net loss of $42 million in third-quarter 2018.
    General Interest

    BHP provides 3Q update, evaluates discoveries

    Nov. 4, 2019
    Major projects under development are tracking to plan and evaluation and analysis of discoveries are ongoing, BHP Petroleum said in an operational update for the quarter ended...
    General Interest

    GAO: Government could get higher returns from offshore oil, gas leasing

    Nov. 4, 2019
    Opportunities exist for the federal government to get higher returns from offshore oil and gas leasing, the Government Accountability Office concluded in a report it released ...
    General Interest

    US House subcommittee probes SRE disclosure bill

    Nov. 4, 2019
    The EPA should disclose the identities, locations, and affected volumes of small refiners seeking hardship exemptions from motor fuel quotas under the Renewable Fuel Standard,...
    General Interest

    California starts gasoline-price probe

    Nov. 4, 2019
    California Gov. Gavin Newsom has asked the state attorney general to investigate major gasoline suppliers on suspicion of price-fixing or related practices.
    General Interest

    Study: English shale-gas progress slow

    Nov. 4, 2019
    Development of English shale-gas resources is taking longer than expected and losing public support, concludes a study by the UK National Audit Office.
    General Interest

    Aramco-Total JV lets contract for Amiral petchem complex

    Nov. 4, 2019
    A joint venture of Saudi Aramco and Total Raffinage Chimie has let a contract to McDermott International Inc. to provide technology licensing and engineering services for work...
    General Interest

    Appalachian producers reduce spending amid tepid gas, NGL prices

    Nov. 4, 2019
    Lower prices for natural gas and natural gas liquids as well as politicized resistance to required horizontal drilling will continue to thwart producers in the Marcellus and Utica...
    Source: Shell Offshore Inc.
    PowerNap is a subsea tieback to the Olympus production hub (Fig. 2).
    Exploration & Development

    Operators commit to investment in deepwater Gulf of Mexico

    Nov. 4, 2019
    The deepwater US Gulf of Mexico (GOM) is attracting renewed investment for exploration-development activities as demonstrated by Shell Offshore Inc. and Murphy Oil Corp.’s recent...
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    Drilling & Production

    Appalachian operators counter low prices with increased efficiency

    Nov. 4, 2019
    Appalachian basin producers have improved efficiencies in drilling and completions in response to lower natural gas prices, representatives of the Marcellus Shale Coalition, the...
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    Refining & Processing

    Appalachia midstream develops integrated NGL infrastructure

    Nov. 4, 2019
    Appalachia, birthplace of US oil and gas production, has witnessed fully integrated midstream infrastructure emerge in just 10 years.
    Photo from Husky Energy.
    Husky Energy Inc. is in the process of reconstructing its 47,500-b/d refinery in Superior, Wis.—which includes a 7,600-b/d of FCC capacity—after remaining shut down following a fire that broke out at the site on Apr. 26, 2018. The rebuild will occur over the next 2 years, with the refinery scheduled to return to full operations sometime in 2021.
    Refining & Processing

    AFPM Q&A - 3: Refiners address FCC operations

    Nov. 4, 2019
    During the 2018 American Fuel and Petrochemical Manufacturers Operations & Process Technology Summit (formerly Q&A and Technology Forum), Oct. 1-3, 2018, in Atlanta, Ga., US domestic...
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    Pipelines & Transportation

    Appalachian natural gas pipeline debottlenecking faces hurdles

    Nov. 4, 2019
    Recent expansions to Appalachian-basin pipeline systems have improved the flow of natural gas and its components from the region to the US Gulf Coast for either export as LNG ...
    Editor's Perspective

    California hunting ‘evidence’ explaining its gasoline prices

    Nov. 4, 2019
    California’s gasoline suppliers will be investigated because a long-awaited probe by the California Energy Commission couldn’t show they misbehaved.
    General Interest

    Watching Government: States’ revenue shares climb

    Nov. 4, 2019
    The US DOI’s Office of Natural Resources Revenue distributed $11.69 billion from energy production on federal and American Indian-owned lands and offshore areas during the 12 ...