EL DORADO, Ark. - Two companies could be liable for fines related to a 2013 oil spill that dumped nearly 6,000 barrels of crude oil in southwestern Arkansas. The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reports that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality filed a lawsuit July 13 against Delek Logistics Operating LLC and SALA Gathering Systems LLC. The lawsuit says the March 2013 oil spill contaminated about 3.5 miles of waterways and affected [Read more]
US expected to become world’s top oil producer next year
The U.S. has nosed ahead of Saudi Arabia and is on pace to surpass Russia to become the world's biggest oil producer for the first time in more than four decades. The latest forecast from the U.S. Energy Information Administration predicts that U.S. output will grow next year to 11.8 million barrels a day. "If the forecast holds, that would make the U.S. the world's leading producer of crude," says Linda Capuano, who heads the agency, a part of the Energy Department. [Read more]
US soon to leapfrog Saudis, Russia as top oil producer
The U.S. is on pace to leapfrog both Saudi Arabia and Russia and reclaim the title of the world's biggest oil producer for the first time since the 1970s. The latest forecast from the U.S. Energy Information Administration predicts that U.S. output will grow next year to 11.8 million barrels a day. "If the forecast holds, that would make the U.S. the world's leading producer of crude," says Linda Capuano, who heads the agency, a part of the Energy Department. Saudi Arabia and Russia [Read more]
Enbridge: On track to put new Line 3 into service next year
MINNEAPOLIS - Fresh off approval by Minnesota regulators, the parent company of Enbridge Energy says it's on track to finish construction and put its disputed Line 3 replacement pipeline into service in the second half of next year. The Minnesota Public Utilities Commission on Thursday determined the project is necessary and approved the company's preferred route across northern Minnesota, with modifications and conditions that Enbridge considers minor. In a statement late [Read more]
Minnesota regulators approve Enbridge Line 3 pipeline replacement project
ST. PAUL, Minn. - Minnesota regulators on Thursday approved Calgary-based Enbridge Inc.'s proposal to replace its aging Line 3 oil pipeline across the northern part of the state, even though a major, controversial question remains unresolved: the line's route. All five members of the Public Utilities Commission backed the project, though some cited heavy trepidation. In open discussion before the vote, several cited the deteriorating condition of the existing line, which was built in the [Read more]
Interior Dept. reviewing Zinke ties to Halliburton head
HELENA, Mont. - The U.S. Interior Department's inspector general is looking into a complaint about a Montana land deal that links Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke and the head of energy services giant Halliburton. Spokeswoman Nancy DiPaolo said Thursday that the Office of Inspector General is conducting a preliminary review that will determine whether a full investigation into the land deal is opened. Interior spokeswoman Heather Swift says Zinke follows the rules and strives for [Read more]
Steel pipe company CEOs push for waivers from Trump’s tariff
BAYTOWN, Texas - Joel Johnson examines the shipping labels on 35-ton coils of American-made steel that will be unspooled, bent and welded into rounded sections of pipe. One's from Nucor, a mill in Arkansas. Another's from Steel Dynamics in Mississippi. But much harder to spot in the sprawling factory yard is the imported steel that's put his company in the crosshairs of President Donald Trump's bitter trade dispute with America's allies and adversaries. Trump says his tariffs on [Read more]
Texas pipe mills seek exemptions from Trump’s steel tariff
BAYTOWN, Texas - Joel Johnson is fighting an uphill battle to keep his pipe factory in this refinery suburb east of Houston from becoming a casualty in President Donald Trump's bitter trade dispute with America's allies and adversaries. He's the CEO of Borusan Mannesmann Pipe US, a company with Turkish roots that manufactures the specialized steel pipe used by energy companies to pull oil and natural gas out of the earth. Unless the Commerce Department grants its request to be exempted [Read more]
Crude oil leaks into floodwaters after train derails in Iowa
DOON, Iowa - A freight train derailed in northwest Iowa on Friday, leaking crude oil from at least one of 31 tankers into flooded fields flanking the tracks and raising concerns about the possible contamination of residential water supplies, officials said. BNSF railroad spokesman Andy Williams said no one was injured when the cars derailed around 4:30 a.m. Friday just south of Doon in Lyon County. Officials at the scene aren't sure whether floodwater from the swollen Little Rock [Read more]
National rig count falls by 7 to 1,052; Louisiana loses 4
HOUSTON - The number of rigs exploring for oil and natural gas in the U.S. decreased by seven this week to 1,052. At this time a year ago there were 941 active rigs. Houston oilfield services company Baker Hughes reported Friday that 862 rigs drilled for oil this week and 188 for gas. Two were listed as miscellaneous. Among major oil- and gas-producing states, Alaska gained two rigs and Wyoming added one. Louisiana lost four rigs and Oklahoma decreased by two. [Read more]
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