Energy

The companies, projects, investments, workforce issues and policy decisions shaping one of the state’s most important economic sectors.

Riverfront parking, casual levee use not affected by Mississippi River emergency order, state official says

An emergency order issued Monday by the Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority restricting traffic...

Eight sector-watchers share their predictions for Baton Rouge in the first quarter of 2016

With 2016 in sight, change is on the horizon for many economic sectors as...

The Year in Review: Top business headlines in 2015

(AP Photo/Melinda Deslatte) The top Baton Rouge business headlines in 2015 covered it all: companies...

Energy firm plans to turn Louisiana sugar cane waste into biofuel pellets

When sugar cane is ground up, a wet, fluffy, fibrous byproduct called bagasse is...

An energy firm plans to convert bagasse into biomass that can be burned in coal-fired plants without pricey retrofitting

When sugar cane is ground up, a wet, fluffy, fibrous byproduct called bagasse is...

Union Pacific and a Louisiana drilling company take the tension between surface and mineral rights to extremes

(AP Photo: Union Pacific) On a Pointe Coupee plantation rich with Louisiana history, the nation’s...
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Warring Union Pacific, WarHorse headed for settlement negotiations

A railroad and an oil drilling firm at war legally—and apparently physically—over 2,450 acres...

As low oil prices linger, south Louisiana oil and gas firms are faced with some tough choices

Gary David works for C&S Well Service, his family’s business in Grosse Tete that...

Another large methanol plant planned in St. James Parish

Pending permit approvals and a final investment decision, Houston-based Syngas Energy Holdings announced today...

White Castle biomass plant on schedule to begin turning sugar cane waste into fuel in July

The biorefinery being installed by NRF BioEnergy at a White Castle sugar mill, which...
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