The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) on Feb. 3 released an environmental assessment for the Northern Supply Access Project, which was proposed by Texas Gas Transmission,…
Swift Energy Co. in early February received approval from a U.S. bankruptcy judge to sell its oil and gas assets in Louisiana. The company last December…
Gulf Coast Western in January said its subsidiary, Orbit Gulf Coast Exploration, has acquired substantially all of the assets of Lafayette, La.-based Orbit Energy Partners. The…
Sabine Pass Liquefaction on Nov. 18 submitted to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) an application to site, construct and operate LNG transport carrier loading facilities…
Louisiana voters in late November elected a new attorney general with a background in the oil and gas industry. Jeff Landry, who won the election against…
Dallas-based exploration and production company Aresco has expanded its Gulf Coast portfolio with the acquisition of a substantial working interest position in the Tuscaloosa Marine Shale…
Hazelwood Energy Hub plans to develop a crude oil blending facility in St. Landry Parish, La., the company said on Sept. 30. The new facility’s combination…
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) said in a Sept. 11 notice in the Federal Register that it will prepare an environmental assessment (EA) for the…
Delfin LNG in May submitted an application to the Maritime Administration and the U.S. Coast Guard to construct, own and operate the Delfin LNG deepwater port…
London-based Ceona in May was awarded a new deepwater contract in the Gulf of Mexico with Houston-based Bennu Oil & Gas. Offshore work for the new…
W&T Offshore Inc. in May made a new discovery at Ewing Banks 910 with the successful drilling and evaluation of the Ewing Banks 910 A-5 ST…
Kansas City Southern subsidiary Kansas City Southern Railway Company (KCSR), has reached an agreement with Sasol Chemicals for the construction and long-term lease of a storage-in-transit…
FERC informed stakeholders in a May 20 notice in the Federal Register that Sabine Pass LNG filed an application for a limited amendment to its FERC-approved…
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) has determined that approval of the Lake Charles Liquefaction Project would have some adverse environmental effects, but most of those…
The U.S. Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) held an oil and gas lease sale in March for the Central Gulf of…
Congressional leadership from Louisiana recently wrote to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) urging the agency to make a decision before the end of the year…
Columbia Gulf Transmission in March filed an application with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission for a certificate of public convenience and necessity to construct, own and…
Freeport-McMoRan Inc. recently released the results of additional production testing on Freeport-McMoRan Oil & Gas’ (FM O&G) Highlander discovery, located onshore in South Louisiana in the…
Comstock Resources Inc. said in December 2014 that it plans to spend $161 million for drilling 14 Haynesville/Bossier shale natural gas wells. In addition, Comstock plans…
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) recently said that it will prepare an environmental impact statement (EIS) for the proposed Calcasieu Pass Project and an environmental…
Magnolia LNG LLC has executed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Kellogg Brown & Root LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of KBR Inc. and SKE&C USA…
The Louisiana Office of Conservation on Dec. 19, 2014, approved a permit for Helis Oil & Gas Co.’s proposed drilling operation near Mandeville, La., in the…
The Bureau of Land Management is offering competitive land leases on parcels containing acres of Federal land in Louisiana. The competitive oral auction will begin at…
SCT&E LNG has received authorization from the Department of Energy (DOE) to export liquefied natural gas (LNG) for 30 years to countries that hold a free…
Apache Corp. has agreed to sell non-core southern Louisiana oil and gas assets along with other assets for approximately $1.4 billion in two separate transactions. In…
J-W Operating Co. will acquire oil and gas properties in northern Louisiana from BHP Billiton. The properties are located in the Elm Grove and Caspiana fields…
Halcon Resources told investors during a Nov. 11, 2014, earnings call that it will be scaling back drilling in the Tuscaloosa Marine Shale in southeast Louisiana…
Venture Global LNG is developing a liquefied natural gas export facility, called the Calcasieu Pass Project, in southwestern Louisiana. The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) authorized…
Voters in Louisiana on Nov. 4, 2014, approved Amendment 8, the Louisiana Artificial Reef Development Fund Protection, by a vote of 758,142 to 567,483. The legislatively…
Serving Unconventional Oil & Gas: Equipment and Technologies March 17-19, 2015 ~ Houston, TX ~ go.asme.org/fracturing The ASME Hydraulic Fracturing 2015 conference draws long-sought focus to…
As the U.S. experiences unprecedented growth in oil and gas development, its successes are tied inexorably to extremely high water stress and drought regions. This reality…
The American Petroleum Institute (API) recently released a vendor survey that demonstrates the diverse array of suppliers, service providers, and other small and mid-sized businesses supporting…
The U.S. Energy Information Administration projected in August that natural gas-fired electric power sector generation in the contiguous U.S. will increase to 1,600 million MWh by…
An Aug. 20 Western Gulf of Mexico lease sale attracted nearly $110 million in high bids for 81 tracts covering 433,823 acres on the U.S. Outer…
Sempra Energy subsidiary Cameron LNG received final authorization from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to export domestically produced liquefied natural gas (LNG) from its proposed…
Sasol has received the necessary permit from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to begin constructing its gas-to-liquid (GTL) facility in Calcasieu Parish, La. “I’m extremely…
Radiant Oil & Gas Inc. has acquired the Garnet project, a 1,000 acre field in St. Mary Parish, La., that was originally discovered and developed by…
Vine Oil & Gas LP, a recently formed exploration and production company headquartered in Dallas, and Blackstone Energy Partners, an affiliate of Blackstone will acquire the…
Louisiana Mid-Continent Oil and Gas Association (LMOGA), in partnership with educational institutions and the State of Louisiana, recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) that establishes…
Houston-based Vanguard Natural Resources LLC (NASDAQ: VNR) has entered a definitive agreement to acquire natural gas, oil, and natural gas liquids (NGL) assets in North Louisiana…
Dallas-based EnLink Midstream Partners LP (EMP) (NYSE:ENLK) has entered into a series of agreements with MPL Investment LLC, a subsidiary of Findlay, Ohio-based Marathon Petroleum Corp.…
In a growing debate over the right future for U.S. crude oil, there is one reality upon which both sides agree: the U.S. is in the…
The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) has released a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NOPR) to improve the safe transportation of large quantities of flammable materials by…
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Southwest Louisiana waterfowl hunting is widely known as one of the most spectacular outdoor experiences any hunter can enjoy. At White Lake, group hunts are conducted between November and January.…
Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal has flouted the advice of his own attorney general and scores of legal scholars by signing a bill which blocks a levee…
A deal between Exxon Mobil Corp. and Qatar Petroleum International sets the stage for a new $10 billion terminal to export liquefied natural gas from Texas. The…
Noise from the Mainstream From TIME Magazine — The seismic link between fracking and earthquakes… New research indicates that wastewater disposal wells – and sometimes fracking…
Rear Admiral Kevin Cook, Eighth Coast Guard District, U.S. Coast Guard, secured as Keynote Speaker for CLEAN GULF 2014 HOUSTON. June 18, 2014. Rear Admiral Kevin…
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