Louisiana snags $155.7 million in GOMESA money
Louisiana on Monday snagged $155.7 million in GOMESA revenue-sharing funds for coastal restoration efforts, derived from offshore energy production.
Plaquemines Parish gets the largest disbursement...
Shell official advocates for a preemptive approach to offshore pipeline protection
Shell Pipeline’s Donnie Garrison touts a proactive approach to protecting the Louisiana’s thousands of miles of offshore pipeline. Taking an early role in re-creating...
Entergy, Edison Chouest launch shore power project at Port Fourchon
Marine vessels docked at South Louisiana's Port Fourchon can now play a role in helping protect Louisiana's environment by replacing fossil fuel-generated ship power with Entergy's...
ExxonMobil Baton Rouge refinery earns EPA Energy Star certification
ExxonMobil Baton Rouge Refinery has earned the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Energy Star certification, which signifies that the facility performs in the top 25%...
Will safety rules on oil drilling stand up in court after Scott Angelle’s changes?
As the offshore oil industry’s federal regulator completed its overhaul of a major well-drilling safety rule in 2018, the agency’s director, Louisiana native Scott...
Diamond Green Diesel strikes deal with IMTT for pipelines, storage
Diamond Green Diesel will use the St. Rose International-Matex Tank Terminal as a logistics hub for its renewable diesel facility in Norco.
Diamond Green Diesel...
Lafayette firm pleads guilty in oil spill incident
An oil production company based in Lafayette Parish and its president pleaded guilty
yesterday to violations stemming from an oil spill that occurred in 2016.
In...
Will oil demand plateau in the 2020s? Louisiana leaders say ‘maybe’
Some industry leaders say it’s entirely possible that growing climate change concerns could lead to flattening oil demand in this decade. That’s as alternative...
FLIR makes ‘strategic investment’ in Baton Rouge emissions monitoring tech firm
S&P 500 thermal imaging giant FLIR Systems Inc. has made what it calls a "strategic investment" in a tiny Baton Rouge firm that has...
Audubon Society opposes Commonwealth LNG project in Cameron Parish
Environmentalists are raising concerns that building a new liquefied natural gas export terminal along the mouth of the Calcasieu Ship Channel in southwest Louisiana...
