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    General Interest

    Vår Energi discovers North Sea oil, supporting plans for production hub

    June 4, 2024
    Vår Energi ASA discovered oil north of Ringhorne Øst field, 200 km northwest of Stavanger in the operated Balder area of the Central North Sea.
    General Interest

    US appeals court upholds FERC approval of Evangeline Pass Expansion

    June 4, 2024
    The US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) acted properly and conducted all needed reviews when it approved Kinder Morgan’s Evangeline Pass Expansion Project, the US Court...
    General Interest

    Phillips 66 to acquire Pinnacle to expand Midland basin footprint

    June 4, 2024
    Phillips 66, Houston, has agreed to acquire Pinnacle Midland Parent LLC from Energy Spectrum Capital for cash consideration of $550 million in a move to expand its natural gas...
    General Interest

    Phillips 66 to acquire Pinnacle to expand Midland basin footprint

    June 4, 2024
    Phillips 66, Houston, has agreed to acquire Pinnacle Midland Parent LLC from Energy Spectrum Capital for cash consideration of $550 million in a move to expand its natural gas...
    General Interest

    Occidental output hurt by Gulf outage, helped by Permian productivity

    June 4, 2024
    Occidental Petroleum Corp., Houston, nearly topped its first-quarter production forecast for the Permian basin thanks in part to better-than-expected performance from wells not...
    General Interest

    Piñon Midstream increases Delaware basin sour gas treating capacity

    June 4, 2024
    Piñon Midstream has commissioned and placed into service its third 450-GPM amine treating unit at its sour natural gas treating and carbon capture plant in the Delaware basin ...
    General Interest

    Shell to divest Singapore refining, chemical assets

    June 4, 2024
    Shell PLC has entered a deal to sell the entirety of its interest in subsidiary Shell Singapore Pte. Ltd.’s (SSPL) integrated refining and petrochemical operations in Singapore...
    General Interest

    ExxonMobil to shut down Liza- field FPSOs to connect gas-to-energy project pipeline

    June 4, 2024
    ExxonMobil plans a short-term shutdown of two floating production storage and offloading vessels at Liza field offshore Guyana to connect an associated natural gas pipeline.
    General Interest

    Rio Grande LNG Phase 1 on schedule, Train 4 FID expected 2H 2024

    June 4, 2024
    Work on NextDecade Corp.’s 27-million tonne/year (tpy) Rio Grande LNG plant in Brownsville, Tex., is “progressing according to plan,” the company said in a release May 9.
    General Interest

    Kinetic adds to Delaware basin processing capacity

    June 4, 2024
    Kinetik Holdings Inc., in a series of transactions, has added to its Delaware basin natural gas processing capacity, signed a 15-year gathering and processing services agreement...
    Economics & Markets

    Oil market to tighten second-half 2024

    June 4, 2024
    Despite substantial central bank interest rate hikes, the global economy has demonstrated remarkable resilience. The global manufacturing Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI...
    HVCF Shear-Rate Dependence (Fig. 1).
    Drilling Operations

    Polyacrylamide performs Permian cleanouts

    June 4, 2024
    Traditional wellbore cleanout and plug-milling operations carried out through coiled tubing use fluids which have little solids suspension capacity, requiring high annular velocities...
    Drilling Operations

    Designer stages improve Wolfcamp performance

    June 4, 2024
    Ovintiv Inc. performed cluster experiments in a Wolfcamp B campaign in Permian basin to determine optimum perforation orientation and cluster spacing.
    GTG Plant, Gas Supply Sites (Fig. 1).
    New Plants

    Verde, Diamondback partnering on Permian basin GTG plant

    June 4, 2024
    Verde Clean Fuels is partnering with Cottonmouth Ventures for joint development of a first-of-its-kind natural gas-to-gasoline plant in Martin County, Tex.
    Permian Basin Natural Gas Pipeline Projects (Fig.).
    Members-Only

    Permian crude production growth requires natural gas pipelines

    June 4, 2024
    Permian crude oil production will reach a 6-month high of 6.19 million b/d in June 2024, according to the US EIA. Along with this crude, comes large amounts of associated gas....
    Photo from Enterprise.
    Leonidas cryogenic natural gas processing plant (Fig. 1).
    Capacities

    EPP adding Permian processing to support production growth

    June 4, 2024
    Enterprise Products Partners LP is progressing with expansions of its cryogenic natural gas processing operations in Delaware and Midland subbasins of the Permian basin.