Clean Up Your Mess!
Attorneys for, and Residents of, LA County protest the re-start of natural-gas injections at the Aliso Canyon storage facility in Porter Ranch, challenging a determination by state regulators that it is safe to resume limited operations at the facility. Read more here: http://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/LA-County-Trying-to-Block-Gas-Porter-Ranch-436297223.html and here: http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-porter-ranch-protest-20170724-story.html and here: http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-porter-ranch-protest-20170724-story.html
You Are Playing With Fire!
Los Angeles County claims the state’s utility and gas regulators ignored a top manager’s warnings about the risk of earthquakes to aging wells at the Alison Canyon gas storage field. Read more here: https://www.scpr.org/news/2017/07/22/74022/county-s-aliso-canyon-lawsuit-says-regulators-igno/
Oh Gosh! How do we fix this?
Australia’s cure to curb gas exportation that could create a temporary glut and push down prices, which have surged from as little as 58¢ a gigajoule in 2014 to $12.64/GJ in February may be an issue or could be worse than the crisis it is trying to solve. Read more here: http://www.smh.com.au/business/energy/cure-for-gas-crisis-could-be-worse-than-the-disease-20170724-gxhxm8.html
You've Had Your Fill, Right? No More Freebies!
Operators in Nigeria’s oil and gas industry have urged the federal government to subject the dividends earned in the oil and gas sector by international oil companies (IOCs) to withholding tax. Read more here: https://www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/2017/07/25/operators-want-fg-to-subject-oil-and-gas-dividends-to-withholding-tax/
Help! I am gas-ping for your supply.
The Chinese General Administration of Customs reported LNG imports to China increased dramatically as the country looks to rely less on coal for its energy needs. First half demand was up 38.3 percent from last year. Read more here: https://www.upi.com/Chinese-appetite-for-LNG-increasing/4391500896190/
Doing Big Things
India launches its first petroleum Research & Development (R&D) facility for testing high-end BS-VI quality fuel emissions, designed to test all types of fuel including petrol, diesel, ethanol-blended petrol, bio-diesel, CNG, LNG, hydrogen-CNG and 2G-ethanol blends to ensure they meet the superior BS-VI norms that are to be implemented across the country by April 2020. Read more at: http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/articleshow/59724400.cms?utm_source=contentofinterest&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=cppst