An equipment failure caused by cold weather led to a saltwater spill in McKenzie County last week, according to a spill report filed with the state.

Company given till Monday to answer city’s demands for monetary compensation.

Mark Patton writes: "Oil price and completion activity will be most critical for oilfield water management as oil price drives well completion activity which drives water demand and produced water recycling demand. New completions also generate more produced water, which ultimately means more business for disposal wells. As completions go so goes the unconventional oilfield water management industry."

After a partial shut in during early 2020 amid reduced producer activity, Crestwood Equity Partners LP’s Arrow system in the Bakken Shale achieved record volumes in natural gas, crude and water in the final quarter of the year, with “a lot more activity” expected in 2021, according to management.

“New Mexico’s oil production would drop by 47% while natural gas production drops by 46% if a federal ban on drilling is implemented… New Mexico would lose 62,000 jobs by 2022 and put $1.1 billion in New Mexico’s revenue at risk, blowing a hole in its state budget.”

RBN Energy writes: "For many midstream companies, the answer — for now at least — is to focus on minimizing the release of methane, carbon dioxide (CO2), and other GHGs from their gas processing plants, pipelines, storage facilities, and fractionators, and on switching to renewables to power their operations. Today, we continues our series with a look at how midstream companies are addressing investors’ and lenders’ concerns about the sector’s GHG releases."

Team will develop large wetland system and evaporation ponds over a surface of more than 400 hectares

Positions Company for Continued Growth to Meet the Evolving Energy Needs of the Growing North Texas Region

The chief executives of Chevron and Saudi Aramco said they see a big role for natural gas even as the world shifts away from fossil fuels to renewable energy.

The chief executives of London-based BP and Netherlands-based Royal Dutch Shell touted their efforts to transform their century-old oil and gas businesses into clean energy leaders, while chief executives of New York-based Hess Corp. and Madrid-based Repsol said they remained confident that fossil fuel demand will continue to grow with the world’s population.