Friday, April 4, 2025
Keystone Pipeline oil leak has now been contained- oil and gas 360

Keystone Pipeline oil leak has now been contained

Oil Price Canadian pipeline operator TC Energy said it had contained the leak from the Keystone pipeline that occurred in the middle of last week, spilling 14,000 barrels of crude into a creek.   The leakage was contained in Kansas, NBC News reported, citing the company, which had to shut down the pipeline while it worked on fixing the leaky section.

Oil rises on uncertainty over U.S. pipeline restart, Russian supplies- oil and gas 360

Oil rises on uncertainty over U.S. pipeline restart, Russian supplies

Nasdaq SINGAPORE – Oil prices rose more than 1% on Monday as a key pipeline supplying the United States stayed shut while Russian President Vladimir Putin threatened to cut production in retaliation for a Western price cap on its exports.   Brent crude futures LCOc1were up 30 cents, or 0.4%, to $76.40 a barrel by 0300 GMT. U.S. West Texas Intermediate crude CLc1 was at $71.53 a barrel, up

Keystone oil pipeline shut down after leak in Nebraska- oil and gas 360

Keystone oil pipeline shut down after leak in Nebraska

Oil Price TC Energy, the operator of the Keystone Pipeline, said on Thursday that it had shut down the oil pipeline and is responding to a release of oil into a creek near Steele City, Nebraska.   “We have shut down the Keystone Pipeline System and mobilized people and equipment in response to a confirmed release of oil into a creek, approximately

‘No sacred cows’ as TC Energy prepares for C$5 bln asset sales- oil and gas 360- oil and gas 360

‘No sacred cows’ as TC Energy prepares for C$5 bln asset sales

US News WINNIPEG, Manitoba – As TC Energy Corp prepares to unload C$5 billion ($3.7 billion) in assets next year, investors and analysts say the North American pipeline operator has plenty of options without touching its core gas business. Chief Executive Francois Poirier cleared up any ambiguities this week when asked how much of TC’s portfolio is in the shop

Biden administration quietly approves huge Texas oil export project- oil and gas 360

Biden administration quietly approves huge Texas oil export project

World Oil The Biden administration has approved plans to build the nation’s largest oil export terminal off the Gulf Coast of Texas, which would add 2 million barrels per day to the U.S. oil export capacity, The Texas Tribune and Earthworks reported. The approval by the Department of Transportation’s Maritime Administration was filed in the federal register on Monday without any public announcement,

Heavy crude discount narrows despite Keystone curtailment- oil and gas 360

Heavy crude discount narrows despite Keystone curtailment

BOE Report Western Canada Select (WCS) crude’s discount to the benchmark West Texas Intermediate (WTI) narrowed slightly on Tuesday.   WCS heavy blend crude for December delivery in Hardisty, Alberta, settled at $28.60 barrel under WTI, according to NE2 Inc, narrowing around 25 cents from the previous session. TC Energy said its 622,000 barrel-per-day Keystone oil pipeline will curtail volumes due

Alaska's pricey crude pushed out of China by Russian oil- oil and gas 360

Alaska’s pricey crude pushed out of China by Russian oil

World Oil (Bloomberg) – China’s passion for Alaskan oil appears to be over as the country turns to Russia.     Surging Chinese energy demand amid Covid lockdowns on the US West Coast prompted Alaskan oil exporters to ship more crude than any time in two-decades, and nearly all of it went to the East Asian country. So far this

KeystoneXL Pipeline could’ve weakened OPEC's bargaining position- oil and gas 360

KeystoneXL Pipeline could’ve weakened OPEC’s bargaining position

Oil Price The U.S. is rapidly depleting our Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) and is now begging Saudi Arabia and OPEC not to cut oil production. This is a result of the unintended — but predictable — consequences of U.S. energy policy that is often hostile to our domestic energy companies.   Our energy policy is often undermined by well-meaning but

Why the U.S.’ largest shale gas basin misses out on the LNG boom- oil and gas 360

Why the U.S.’ largest shale gas basin misses out on the LNG boom

Oil Price Regulatory hurdles are stymieing growth in natural gas production in the Marcellus-Utica basin, the largest U.S. gas-producing region, which is set to miss out on the expected boom in American liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports in the coming years. Not only is Marcellus-Utica missing the opportunity to export and monetize natural gas in a world scrambling for LNG

BlackRock is ready to invest In U.S. energy pipelines- oil and gas 360

BlackRock is ready to invest In U.S. energy pipelines

Oil Price The world’s biggest asset manager, BlackRock, is prepared to invest in energy pipelines in the United States as soon as such projects get the green light from the government, BlackRock’s chief executive Larry Fink said on Wednesday.   The top executive of BlackRock – which has faced criticism from both environmental campaigners for still investing in conventional energy

Canadian oil prices collapse despite having plenty of pipelines to move it- oil and gas 360

Canadian oil prices collapse despite having plenty of pipelines to move it

World Oil (Bloomberg) — Canadian heavy crude prices plunged to their biggest discount to futures since 2018 and, this time, the collapse has little to do with a shortage of pipelines.   Heavy Western Canadian Select’s discount to West Texas Intermediate widened $1.50 to $32.50 a barrel at Hardisty, Alberta, on Wednesday, the widest since November 2018, data compiled by

Sweden says investigation into Russian pipeline leaks strengthens suspicion of ‘gross sabotage’- oil and gas 360

Sweden says investigation into Russian pipeline leaks strengthens suspicion of ‘gross sabotage’

CNBC Sweden’s national security service on Thursday said a crime scene investigation into the gas leaks from two underwater pipelines connecting Russia to Germany “strengthened the suspicions of gross sabotage.” Sweden’s Security Service said the investigation found there had been detonations at the Nord Stream 1 and 2 pipelines in the Swedish exclusive economic zone, which caused “extensive damage” to the