Freeport LNG Development LP (FLNG) and its wholly owned subsidiary FLNG Liquefaction 4 LLC have filed a formal application with the US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission for authorization to site, construct, and operate a fourth liquefaction train at its LNG export facility on Quintana Island near Freeport, Tex.

A Utah official recommended that Congress develop a process to give states primacy in managing federal oil and gas resources within their borders that are willing to assume the responsibility.

Energy security might not be the priority motivation of China’s ambitious plan to develop multimodal transportation routes between itself and Europe. But it’s among the top three.

Abu Dhabi Oil Refinery Co. (Takreer), the refining arm of state-owned Abu Dhabi National Oil Co., has let a contract to GS Engineering & Construction Corp. (GSEC), Seoul, to repair damages caused by an early January fire at the 417,000-b/d West plant of its more than 800,000-b/d Ruwais refining complex in the UAE.

Key Petroleum Ltd., Perth, and AWE Ltd., Sydney, have agreed binding terms for Key’s acquisition of AWE’s 100% interest in production licence L7 (R1) in the onshore North Perth basin, which contains Mount Horner oil field.

After rising in 23 consecutive weeks, the overall US drilling rig count has finally given up a unit.

Enterprise Products Partners LP (EPP), Houston, has approved a project to expand originally planned capacities of its 300-MMcfd Orla I cryogenic natural gas processing plant currently under construction near Orla, Tex., in Reeves County.

A pipeline expansion able to relieve a looming production bottleneck in the Alberta oil sands faces new opposition after a change of government in British Columbia.

US Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee leaders introduced fresh legislation on June 29 to address long-standing federal energy policies that recent improvements in the US oil and gas outlook may have rendered obsolete. S. 1460 is the successor to their earlier broad policy reform bill that failed to advance out of a House-Senate conference toward the end of 2016.

BP PLC has relinquished its 50% interest in Block 24/11 offshore southern Angola after determining the 2014 Katambi gas discovery to be uncommercial.