Exxon Ramps Up Use of Its Custom Proppant After Positive Results

The black sand made at refineries is delivering production gains of up to 18% in comparison tests as a lightweight proppant, Exxon engineers said at URTeC.

Open Season Begins for Golden’s Proposed Gas Storage in Kansas

Participation in Golden Gas Service Co.’s non-binding open season for its proposed salt cavern natural gas storage project is required for later capacity bids.

Exclusive: Energy Transfer on Ethane Export Leadership Despite Trade Tensions

Tom Long, Energy Transfer co-CEO delved into the company’s pipeline progress and challenges and its ethane market leadership despite tariffs in this Hart Energy Exclusive interview.

Concerns Grow on How ‘Dirt Sciences’ Will Keep Attracting Talent

Factors like the cyclical nature of the energy industry and demand for more skills are widening the gap between industry and education.

Kinetik CEO Pushes Trump Admin to Rethink Tariffs on Steel

Kinetik CEO Jamie Welch said the U.S. oil and gas industry’s products are “born and bred … in our backyard,” and therefore should get exemptions from the tariffs impacting the materials needed to drill and move hydrocarbons.

Bechtel Inks $9B in Contracts for NextDecade’s Rio Grande LNG Trains

NextDecade Corp. finalized contracts with Bechtel Energy for construction of Rio Grande Trains 4 and 5, which are awaiting final investment decisions.

Court OKs MVP Southgate Permit Extension—Despite Opposition

A group of environmental petitioners had asked for a review of the Southgate project to extend the Mountain Valley Pipeline.

US NatGas Prices Edge Up on Rising Demand, Signs of Higher Flows to Cameron LNG

Prices edged up even as energy firms continue to add record amounts of gas into storage and as the cost of spot gas remains well below futures prices.

Berry ‘Excited’ for Uinta’s Resource Potential from Horizontal Drilling

Berry Corp. is excited for the untapped resource potential from the Uinta Basin as it dives deeper into horizontal drilling in the basin, CEO Fernando Araujo tells Hart Energy’s Nissa Darbonne.

US Policy to Hobble Midstream Cos.' Feedstock Shipments to China

Energy Transfer and Enterprise Products Partners, two major suppliers of ethane, will bear the brunt of a policy that will cut shipments to China by a quarter in 2025 and by 50% in 2026, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.