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Big Oil’s exit turns into revival for Norway’s aging North Sea

Bloomberg Back in 2015, Royal Dutch Shell Plc and BP Plc cast doubt over the future of aging oil fields offshore Norway. A crash in crude prices and high operating costs threatened to shut them early, leaving millions of barrels in the ground. Two of the fields, Draugen and Valhall, have since fallen into the hands of smaller, local companies, ...

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Trinidad strikes gas deal with Venezuela for natural gas exports

Bloomberg Trinidad and Tobago will continue to ship super-chilled natural gas all over the world, with a little help from Venezuela. President Nicolas Maduro and Trinidad and Tobago Prime Minister Keith Rowley signed a deal where Trinidad will purchase gas from Venezuela’s prolific Dragon Field, state-run energy company, Petroleos de Venezuela SA, said in a tweet. Under the terms of ...

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CenterPoint turning to cows, landfills for gas alternative

Bloomberg CenterPoint Energy Inc. wants to introduce a pilot programme in Minnesota offering customers access to a renewable form of natural gas recovered from dairy farms and landfills. It’s the first such programme in the Midwest, mirroring the push by utilities to offer electricity powered by wind or solar. Methane produced by everything from manure to rotting garbage is the ...

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