GoM Offshore Platforms Evacuated Ahead of Hurricane
Energy companies on Monday halted nearly a fifth of Gulf of Mexico oil production and evacuated staff from 10 platforms as Hurricane Michael intensified and headed for a path up the eastern U.S. part of the Gulf.BHP Billiton, BP, Equinor and Exxon Mobil Corp were evacuating personnel from oil and gas platforms in the Gulf as forecasters predicted the storm would become a Category 3 hurricane.Companies turned off the daily production flow of 324…
Shippers Take up Transcanada Offer to Move Natgas on Mainline
Shippers have taken up Transcanada Corp's new flat-toll offer to move natural gas on its Mainline pipe from western to central Canada, the company said on Monday. TransCanada's new offer for 1.5 petajoules of capacity per day on its Mainline system from western plays to southern Ontario came three months after shippers balked at the previous varied toll structure, which they saw as too high. In Ontario, Canadian shippers face competition from eastern U.S. shale basins like the Marcellus and Utica.
Scientists Uncover Explanation for Hidden Ocean Swell Interactions
Better simulations of internal tides may benefit sonar communications, protect offshore structures, and more. In certain parts of the ocean, towering, slow-motion rollercoasters called internal tides trundle along for miles, rising and falling for hundreds of feet in the ocean’s interior while making barely a ripple at the surface. These giant, hidden swells are responsible for alternately drawing warm surface waters down to the deep ocean and pulling marine nutrients up from the abyss.
Kentucky: 'War on Coal' Yields to Hope for New Economy
When Dan Mosley became head of Kentucky's Harlan County government this year, he promised - like those elected before him - to defend the state's beleaguered coal industry. But Mosley also vowed to do something else for his county: help build a new economy based on something other than coal. "The best business I've seen in town lately has been the U-Haul business because people are moving out," said Mosley, a boyish-looking father of two, speaking after a community meeting in the century-old coal town of Benham.
Oklahoma Earthquake Surge Tied to Energy Activity -Study
A dramatic jump in the number of earthquakes in Oklahoma to a rate never seen there by scientists before, appears to be caused by a small number of wells where wastewater associated with oil and gas production is injected into the ground, a study released on Thursday said. Just a few of these so-called disposal wells, operating at very high volumes, "create substantial anthropogenic seismic hazard," according to findings from Cornell University researchers published in the journal Science.
