Kinder Morgan acquires Kinetrex Energy, an LNG and renewable natural gas co.
Kinder Morgan’s leadership had previously indicated renewable natural gas is an area of interest for the company.
Report forecasts accelerating power plant closures
Those decisions — by utilities realizing the costs of renewables are competitive against coal and gas-fired power plants — are accelerating what IEFFA already expected to happen in the marketplace but years further into the future.
Houston energy software co. LiquidFrameworks agrees to be acquired
Founder and CEO Travis Parigi formed Houston-based LiquidFrameworks in 2004.
EQT’s pending $2.9B purchase the biggest shale asset deal of the year
EQT Corp.’s pending $2.9 billion acquisition of the Marcellus Shale assets of Alta Resources is the largest asset deal in the oil and gas industry so far this year, according to a new report. S&P Global Market Intelligence pegged the EQT deal for Alta’s acreage in northeastern Pennsylvania as edging out a big international asset […]
ERCOT unveils ‘Roadmap to Improving Grid Reliability’ in effort to help Texas Power Grid
The roadmap contains 60 items to improve grid reliability
North Carolina House passes controversial bill backed by Duke Energy
After hours of delay and much backroom wrangling, North Carolina House members worked past midnight to push through controversial, Duke Energy-supported legislation allowing multiyear rate hikes and replacing at least one coal plant with natural gas.
The Big Sandbox: An inside look at how Koch Labs helps churn ideas of Koch Industries
From companies Koch has invested in, to ideas from its own employees, Koch Labs puts technologies and processes through the paces before they hit the market.
Trust in Texas electricity providers falls after winter freeze, study finds
Only 13% of customers said they received information from their retail electricity provider during outages, the study found.
University of Houston research awarded $2M from Department of Energy for chemical feedstock tech
Technology being researched by University of Houston professor Lars Grabow has received a $2 million award from the U.S. Department of Energy for further development. Grabow, who serves as Dan Luss Professor at the University of Houston’s Cullen College of Engineering, is developing a technology for the production of acrylonitrile, a feedstock in the production […]
Limetree Bay files big bankruptcy in Houston after EPA order
Limetree and its subsidiaries own a refinery and associated terminal on St. Croix in the United States Virgin Islands, but the company listed a northwest Houston address as its primary office in its bankruptcy petition.
