The oil and gas industry is laying off workers at an unprecedented pace to cope with a pandemic that crashed energy prices and raised doubts about the future of fossil fuels. The oil, natural gas, and chemicals industry in the U.S. eliminated 107,000 jobs between March and August of this year, according to a report
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Enbridge Energy officials say they have completed a section of its Line 3 crude oil pipeline replacement project in North Dakota, leaving only the Minnesota stretch that has been challenged by state officials and others. The company says that more than 400 construction workers started on the 12-mile North Dakota project in August. Line 3
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The Sixth Annual Pipeline Leadership Conference is taking place virtually in 2020 and is proud to announce the agenda and speakers. The theme for the event is “A 2020 Vision for Pipelines: What the Futures Holds.” The robust agenda focuses on the 2020 U.S. Presidential Election and other political impacts on the pipeline industry, economic
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Mountain Valley Pipeline has another two years to finish a natural gas pipeline. The Roanoke Times reports that the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) also lifted a stop-work order for all but a 25-mile segment of the interstate transmission line that includes the Jefferson National Forest and adjacent land. While acknowledging problems with erosion and
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Louisiana’s oil and natural gas industry is helping the state to recover economically, according to a report released today by the Louisiana Mid-Continent Oil and Gas Association. The report highlights the energy industry’s direct economic activity in Louisiana as well as the indirect and induced jobs and economic value added to the economy. It shows
Read More...Check out this time-lapse video of a lengthy construction project we started in January 2020 and completed in March 2020. Background: Several pipelines cross a river in Conroe, Texas. A sandpit had expanded over time, and heavy flow had degraded the bed of the channel and eroded the banks, exposing and suspending the pipelines.
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A seven-year dispute has ended in an agreement by Trans Mountain Pipeline to reroute its expansion project by building a bypass around a native rights sore spot in southern British Columbia (BC). The deal, filed with the Canada Energy Regulator, charts the new course to avoid risking contamination of a subterranean aquifer tapped by the
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GlobalData’s latest thematic report, “Augmented Reality in Oil and Gas,” highlights the increasing adoption of augmented reality (AR) technology in the oil and gas industry. AR is still evolving as a technology in the oil and gas industry and has the potential to disrupt the traditional operational functions over the next three to five years.
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Some of the largest pipeline operators in the U.S. have started to offer sweeter deals for crude oil shipment to producers as the midstream sector vies to curb its losses and keep its relevance amid the oil demand and production decline. Pipeline companies, including Magellan Midstream Partners, Enterprise Product Partners, and Energy Transfer, have cut
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Black Bear Transmission LLC (Black Bear) announced it has sold off all the assets owned by Ozark Gas Gathering, L.L.C. (OGG) to an undisclosed buyer. This sell-off follows two bolt-on acquisitions completed by Black Bear this year: the purchase of the Ozark Gas Transmission and Gathering systems from Enbridge in April 2020 and the NGT
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