Energy

AmmPower to build green hydrogen, ammonia facility at Port of South Louisiana

AmmPower Corp. has signed a letter of intent to develop a green hydrogen/ammonia facility...

Loren Scott to petrochemical industry: Expect ‘cheap’ natural gas

The Capital Region’s petrochemical industry likely will continue to benefit from low domestic natural gas prices over the next two years, economist Loren Scott told Greater Baton Rouge Industry Alliance members today. 

Louisiana, Texas want to take carbon capture oversight away from feds

Louisiana and Texas are hoping to wrest oversight of carbon capture wells from federal...

ExxonMobil restructures divisions as it moves headquarters to Houston area

ExxonMobil is restructuring its business into three divisions and moving its headquarters 250 miles south from Irving, Texas, to its campus north of Houston.

Louisiana lost the most construction jobs in US last year 

Louisiana had the steepest one-year construction employment decline in the U.S. in 2021 with a 15% contraction, Reuters reports.  

Louisiana industry blasts court decision halting Gulf oil leases

A federal court has rejected a plan to lease millions of acres in the Gulf of Mexico for offshore oil drilling, saying the Biden administration did not take into account the lease sale’s effect on planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions, violating federal law, The Associated Press reports.
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Big changes in store for pipeline industry in 2022

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, courts and states are poised to set policies in...

What does the PSC’s new ruling on buying power mean for the state?

On Tuesday, the Louisiana Public Service Commission ruled that rural cooperatives in Louisiana, usually powered by large investor-owned utilities like Entergy and CLECO, can source power from firms in other states.

‘LaPolitics’: Legislative bills piling up ahead of regular session

The special session on redistricting is scheduled to convene Tuesday, but as of this...

Petroleum engineering degree more popular in Louisiana than in any other state

Recent data from the U.S. Census Bureau shows that Louisiana’s adults are seven times...