By Claire Hao, Staff Writer| Houston Chronicle| Vistra plans to build two new natural gas power plants in the Permian Basin in response to the oil and gas industry’s growing thirst for electricity and other growth in West Texas, the Dallas-area power generation company announced Monday. The two new power plants have a combined capacity of 860 megawatts, […] The post Vistra to Build Nearly $1B in Natural Gas Power Plants as Oil and Gas Industry Electrifies appeared first on OklahomaMine...| OklahomaMinerals.com
In a perfect world, polluters would take responsibility for their impact on local waterways, whether that means taking measures to reduce their own pollution in their operations or partnering on clean-up efforts when mishaps occur. In reality, that’s not typically how it works. Even at a small, localized scale, water quality improvements on upstream properties… The post Improving water quality as a business: Why downstream users think it’s worth footing the bill appeared first on Delawa...| Delaware Currents
Authored by Jill McLaughlin via The Epoch Times, | California regulators fearing a dramatic drop in gasoline supply placed a five-year pause on Gov. Gavin Newsom’s penalty on oil industry profits Aug. 29. The decision is a blow to Newsom’s legislation aimed at penalizing the oil industry for allegedly driving up the state’s gas prices in 2022. […]| OklahomaMinerals.com
By Jarrett Renshaw-(Reuters) -President Donald Trump’s administration is expected to rule on a growing backlog of requests from small oil refiners seeking relief from U.S. biofuel laws as early as Friday. Still, it will delay a decision on whether larger refiners must compensate by boosting their own biofuel blending, according to two sources familiar with […]| OklahomaMinerals.com
In the first article in this series about how boilers in power plants are used for power generation, we looked at their combustion system and how they extract stored energy from a fuel source. In this article, we will take a closer look at their core function: boiling water into steam. Boiling water into steam […] The post How Boilers Are Used in Power Generation: Water and Steam appeared first on STI Group.| STI Group
