Texas

Electric Vehicles

Tesla Appears to Be Ramping Up Cybertruck Production as Fleet Is Spotted

Tesla appears to be ramping up Cybertruck production early as a decent fleet has been spotted at Gigafactory Texas.After Tesla delivered only 10 Cybertrucks at …

Japan

Tokyo Gas Unit Buys US Natgas Producer Rockcliff Energy for $2.7 Billion

A natural gas pipeline, and the logos of Tokyo Gas and Rockcliff Energy are seen in this illustration taken January 4, 2023. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/Fil…

Oil&Gas Drilling

US Drillers Cut Oil and Gas Rigs for First Time in Five Weeks - Baker Hughes

An oil worker drives a forklift truck towards a drill rig after placing some ground monitoring equipment in the vicinity of the underground horizontal drill in …

Coal-Fired Power Plants

US Awards up to $890 Million to Carbon Capture Projects at Gas, Coal Plants

Natural gas and coal plants in Texas, California and North Dakota will share up to $890 million in U.S. funding for projects to demonstrate the viability of car…

LNG

Freeport LNG Settles With US EPA Over Safety Failures for June 2022 Texas Blast

Storage tanks and gas-chilling units are seen at Freeport LNG, the second largest exporter of U.S. liquified natural gas, near Freeport, Texas, U.S., February 1…

Hydrogen Production

Rethinking Federal Investments: We Need Virtual Power Plants, Not Hydrogen Hubs

(Solar rooftop homes in Austin, Texas. Image: 123rf)The Department of Energy is providing taxpayer money to electric utilities like Xcel Energy to set up Hydrog…

Oil & Gas Trade

US Seeks to Buy Up to 3 Million Barrels of Oil for Strategic Petroleum Reserve

An oil storage tank and crude oil pipeline equipment is seen during a tour by the Department of Energy at the Strategic Petroleum Reserve in Freeport, Texas, U.…

Uranium Project

encore and Boss Energy Form Strategic Partnership

enCore Energy of the USA has entered into an agreement with Australia's Boss Energy, through which Boss will acquire a 30% stake in enCore's Alta Mesa i…

Electric Vehicles

Tesla Cybertruck Debuts With Entry Price of $60,990 for RWD and 250-Mile Range

Tesla hosted its highly anticipated Cybertruck delivery event at the Texas gigafactory. Cybertruck was unveiled in November 2019. (Earlier post.) The Cybertruck…

Uranium Project

Texas Uranium Operation Returns to Production

Uranium production has begun at enCore Energy Corp's South Texas Rosita Central Processing Plant (CPP). The restart of the plant which last produced yellowc…

Oil & Gas Trade

US November LNG Exports Approach Record Levels Amid Higher Output

Storage tanks and gas-chilling units are seen at Freeport LNG, the second-largest exporter of U.S. liquified natural gas, near Freeport, Texas, U.S., February 1…

Offshore Wind Power

NY Launches Offshore Wind Solicitation as It Strives to Meet Green Goals

Wind turbines operate at sunrise in the Permian Basin oil and natural gas production area in Big Spring, Texas, U.S., February 12, 2019. Picture taken February …

Biofuel

SMRR Partners With Topsoe, Chemex Global for Texas Biorefinery

Santa Maria Renewable Resources, a vertically integrated renewable energy, and biobased production developer, is pleased to announce it has selected Topsoe, as …

Electric Vehicles

Tesla Spotted Building a Fleet of Over 25 Cybertrucks Ahead of the Launch

Tesla has been spotted building a decent-size fleet of over 25 Cybertrucks at Gigafactory Texas ahead of the launch event on Thursday.After a lot of anticipatio…

Carbon Emissions

Occidental and Blackrock Form JV to Develop World's Largest Direct Air Capture Plant; $550M Investment, 500,000 Tonnes of CO2 per Year

Occidental recently announced that BlackRock will invest $550 million on behalf of clients in the development of STRATOS, the world’s largest Direct Air Captur…