Attorney General Landry pressing GOP senators to oppose energy permit reforms
Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry is leading a group of 18 Republican attorneys general in opposition to U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin’s proposed Energy Independence...
Number of oil spills in U.S. waters drops significantly
Oil and natural gas spills from tankers and pipelines in U.S. waters dropped dramatically in the decade spanning 2010-2019, compared to the previous decade,...
ExxonMobil pushing against Gulf Coast fuel export restrictions
ExxonMobil is pushing back against reductions of U.S. fuel exports urged by the Biden administration in August, arguing that restricting shipments would further squeeze...
Cheniere to fix Louisiana LNG plant equipment after failing pollution test
LNG exporter Cheniere Energy Inc. says it will repair and replace equipment at its Louisiana terminal after tests showed it exceeded newly-imposed hazardous emissions...
Oil and gas scholar to discuss carbon capture Oct. 4 at LSU
Owen L. Anderson, a professor and distinguished oil and gas scholar at the University of Texas at Austin School of Law, will discuss carbon...
Louisiana voters see politicians as roadblock to renewable energy shift
Despite generally liking renewable energy, the majority of Louisiana voters oppose efforts to shift the state away from oil and gas, according to a...
Private equity industry replaces Wall Street as oil & gas investors
As Wall Street banks and investors face mounting pressure to disinvest in oil and gas, the private equity industry is taking their place, reports...
Feds raid QuarterNorth Energy’s Lafayette office in spill probe
Federal investigators raided a deepwater oil explorer’s Louisiana office last week as part of a probe into an offshore spill, a rare escalation for...
BOEM accepts 2021 offshore lease bids
The U.S. government has accepted nearly $190 million in bids from an offshore oil and gas lease sale that was held nearly a year ago...
Biden administration denies Cheniere request for rule exemption
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) said last week that it had denied a request from Cheniere Energy Inc. to exempt turbines at its...
