If you follow the Bill Gates-led Breakthrough Energy Ventures, you may already have an idea of the wide range of startups that have received millions to go forth and accelerate their innovations in sustainable energy....
Read More
The ink’s not dry yet on Denbury’s huge deal today, but it certainly marks the happy ending to a Cinderella story. ...
Read More
Toward the end of 2021, a mere five floating LNG processors were operating around the world where they were used exclusively to tap offshore gas production. Unlike fixed onshore terminals, FLNGs—as they were employed at the time—offered a lower-cost option to liquify the gas with the added flexibility to move to other offshore gas resources inaccessible by land-based plants. ...
Read More
Less than three years ago, Kan-based Tallgrass Energy accepted a $4 billion investor buyout led by Blackstone that took the midstream company private. A name change to simply “Tallgrass,” and appointment of a new CEO quickly followed, along with a fresh strategy to diversify the business from an oil-and-gas pipeline transporter and processor, to an infrastructure company with an eye on new-energy frontiers. ...
Read More
When last we covered Exxon’s flirtation with domestic lithium production, the oil giant had just acquired drilling rights on 120,000 acres in the brine-rich Smackover Formation in Ark. ...
Read More
The Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill passed in 2021 includes $8 billion to create and physically build a hydrogen market in the U.S. The Department of Energy’s hydrogen program lays out a strategy that begins with 6-10 regional hubs that will manufacture, transport, store, liquify, and commercialize “clean” hydrogen on a large scale. That’s one way of going about it. ...
Read More