Topics covered on today's show include:

 

* An Israeli court halted Noble’s Leviathan gas project over environmental concerns;

* Canadian crude-by-rail shipments are ready to surge, and spurring new export investment;

* Alaska’s governor says that an oil tax hike might imperil an industry renaissance in the state;

* Chinese traders offering LNG on the cheap hints at a severe supply glut;

* BP is following Total in a quest to improve recyclability of petroleum-based products.

To read more on today's topics, please visit www.worldoil.com/news

There's a lot happening in the shale space today:

* Permian basin industry groups are challenging perceptions on methane emissions;

* The new U.S. Secretary of Energy says the slowdown in the Permian is only temporary;

* WaterBridge has raised $345 million to expand its Permian operations;

* Devon Energy agrees to sell its Barnett shale assets for $770 million;

* China is breaking global records for oil imports, and the numbers are still growing.

To learn more about these topics and other news of the day, please visit www.worldoil.com/news

Today's headlines on the Daily Brief include:

* Weatherford emerges from Chapter 11 bankruptcy and appoints a new board of directors;

* Accelerating Permian base decline demands more drilling to maintain current output;

* Canada’s energy industry is beginning to shine, just as U.S. shale loses its luster;

* Exxon and Chevron have both been targeted by a climate-activist investor group

Visit worldoil.com/news for more information on today's topics.

Today's show is an interview with Eric Waeckerlin, an attorney with environmental and energy law firm Holland and Hart, talking about what's next for the energy industry, and its detractors, following ExxonMobil's legal win against the state of New York. We discuss the goals of lawsuits such as these, what energy companies are doing to defend themselves from inevitable litigation, and how the industry at large can improve its net-zero-emission outcomes by working to own the narrative in the public square.

Topics from today's show include:

 

* Chevron has greenlit its Anchor 20,000 psi deepwater project in the Gulf of Mexico;

* Total is beginning FEED studies on its own 20ksi discovery on North Platte in the Gulf of Mexico;

* SBM Offshore has signed a 22-year FPSO contract with Petrobras;

* Harold Hamm has stepped aside from the CEO role at Continental Resources.

 

Also, following is a link to the World Oil magazine article, "Qualification of a 20,000-psi BOP: A collaborative approach (https://www.worldoil.com/magazine/2019/february-2019/features/qualification-of-a-20-000-psi-subsea-bop-a-collaborative-approach)", as discussed on today's show.

Today's headlines on the Daily Brief include:

* Chevron is taking an $11 billion writedown amid weak gas prices;

* Springfield E&P makes a significant oil discovery offshore Ghana;

* Maersk chooses partners for its Seapulse exploration drilling program;

* Aker Solutions wins a FEED study for the BP Cypre project in Trinidad.

 

In the second half of today’s show, we’ll hear from Dr.Marco Pasquali, who is the director of a joint research initiative of Rice University and Shell called the Carbon Hub. Dr. Pasquali will share the details of the research program that envisions a net-zero-emissions future, in which oil and natural gas are used to create both clean energy and advanced materials.

Today's headlines on the Daily Brief include:

* Proposed U.S. sanctions on Russia’s Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline will target subsea construction vessel operators;

* Exxon has prevailed over New York in its climate change lawsuit;

* A giant oil find in Mexico won’t be a miracle cure for an ailing Pemex;

* Saudi Arabia isn’t counting on an oil price rise in its 2020 budget.

Today we’ll also have a quick chat with Ben Schuler, CEO of Infinitum Electric, who has just closed a funding round with Chevron Technology Partners, and others, as part of Chevron’s carbon-reduction program.

Today's headlines on the Daily Brief include:

* There’s been a shakeup in the top ranks of Tullow Oil following continued poor results in Africa;

* Rosneft is elbowing PDVSA aside on Venezuelan service contracts;

* Canada’s Canacol Energy has won three new gas exploration blocks in Colombia;

* Developing nations are demanding payouts for climate change at a UN conference;

* Could Bitcoin be part of the solution to end gas flaring?

In today's episode, OPEC nears a deal to further increase production cuts, Fugro completes a milestone project offshore Brunei, Turkey causes a stir by flaunting maritime boundaries in the eastern Mediterranean, and Houston's economy begins to show shadows of the 1980s as shale drilling slumps.

OPEC+ opened its autumn meeting in Vienna today, so the show will take a look at how Saudi Arabia's plans to cut production are impacting oil prices, and what kinds of conditions for other members those cuts include. We'll also look at how China is impacting global LNG prices, Johan Sverdrup's rapid impact on Norwegian crude production, and legal actions against Shell for a nearly 50-year-old oil spill.