The Complex Carbon Conversation Continues
Lori Hinz, reporter for BEK News, gives an update from the research on her daily feature on Capturing America’s Heartland: CO2 Pipeline. Hinz was reporting on recent testimonials from North Dakota state officials and their testimony at the Legislative Council on Energy Development and Transmission Committee.
“It was a two and a half hour meeting of this Legislative Council on Energy Development and Transmission Committee,” Hinz said. “ND Governor Doug Burgum spoke, then Dave Glott from DEQ (Department of Environmental Quality), and then Lynn Helms also spoke on this one.”
Hinz continued reporting on events and testimonials given at the legislative council.
“They said that four EOR, enhanced oil recovery test projects, are going to be starting in May of this year, May of 2024, Hinz said. “Now, one of those is using slugs of wellhead gas with water, EER lead. One of them is using North Dakota source surfactants, And the other two will be using CO2 foam blend, which is not something that we've heard spoken about before.”
According to Hinz, the four companies involved in these test wells will be Hess Chevron, partnership with ExxonMobil, XTO, Continental Resources, and Liberty Energy.
The project basically consists of a proposed high-pressure CO2 pipeline that would be built close to residential Bismarck, ND. This has become the topic of controversy among residents and rural landowners along the pipeline’s route.
The pipeline would transport carbon dioxide captured from ethanol plants in five Midwest states to an end point north and west of the Bismarck-Mandan area, in Oliver and Mercer counties.
BEK TV host Lori Hinz brings weekly updates in Capturing America’s Heartland: CO2 Pipeline, which invites experts on all sides of the issue to weigh in on a variety of concerns and benefits regarding building an unusually large pipeline so close to residents and property owners. From reducing greenhouse gas emissions and increasing domestic oil production, to significant technical, regulatory, and health and safety challenges, the series explores how the proposed route could affect the Heartland of America.
Capturing America’s Heartland: CO2 Pipeline airs weekdays at 9 AM.
Hinz is also the RNC National Committeewoman for North Dakota.
WOMEN IN ENERGY: This One’s For The Girls
I grew up in a small town in Texas where pretty much everyone knew your name. My graduating class had 62 people and I had this idea in my head that if I wanted to be successful, I had to move to a big city like Houston. Looking back, I now know that is so far from the truth but, like most girls in small towns, I didn’t know what I didn’t know.
I left home with no plan and no idea what was out there for me, but I decided that I was just going to figure it out. I ended up getting married young, having kids (twin boys) and then getting divorced. I was a single mom with no post-secondary education, no training, a very feeble resume and these two little boys, under a year old, that I had to provide for. It took me stepping way out of my comfort zone to realize that moving out of a small town wasn’t the key to success; opportunity and awareness were.
I’m sure my story is like many other women who have found themselves in careers they never dreamed they would be in. And, while my story is a good one, I’m going to save it for another time. I will say that over the last few years I’ve learned that if you tell a girl what’s out there for her, she’s going to go out and get it!
EMERGING ENERGIES: How AI Can Prevent Cyberattacks in the Oil and Gas Industry
Every industry worldwide revolves around data, insights, integrity, and developments. Data security is a basic requirement in any field. Data helps visualize, predict, and analyze the oil and gas industry.
Any attempt by an unauthorized user to access, deny, modify, or expose data is a cyberattack. Cyberattacks can cause loss of data, finances, and integrity for the sufferer. They can be of several types, including Denial of Service (DDoS), phishing, ransomware attacks, etc.
Cyber Attacks in the Oil and Gas Industry
Cyberattacks in the oil and gas industry are increasing over the past few years. The rise in ransomware attacks is about 150% in the past year! There have been 35 major and minor cyberattacks in the last five years.
Colonial Pipeline Attack (2021)—The Colonial Pipeline attack is one of the biggest ransomware attacks in the oil and gas industry. It was so huge that it cost around $4.4 million to authorize, and half of the US oil stations were temporarily shut down. The company paid a hacker group named Dark Side around $4.4 million to restore the system.
Triconex Controller Attack (2017) – Triton – the world’s most murderous malware – was used to disable the safety systems designed especially for safety in a controlled system. The System Instrumented System (SIS) is expected to take automated action to keep the site safe in an emergency.
European oil refining ports and storage facilities (2022)—Another hacker group named BackCat launched a ransomware attack on European oil refining ports. In this particular attack, the hackers mixed up the data, which led to system failure.
There can be several reasons for cyberattacks. Most of the cyberattacks are sponsored by rival companies to cause losses to the competitors. Around 42% of cyberattacks are related to information theft, and about 32% are related to taking control of operational technology infrastructures in the oilfields. These attacks can cause severe issues in the companies.
PETRO PROFILE: Warren Martin & Kansas Strong Continues Promoting Petroleum Positively
Warren Martin, executive director, Kansas Strong, joins The Crude Life with an update on the Jayhawk State.
Martin has been very active educating and promoting the benefits of oil and gas, including tax revenues, community development projects and everyday uses for petroleum products.
"Informing the public about the many ways the Kansas oil and natural gas industry contributes to our state and our nation is an important part of our mission," Martin said. "Kansas Strong has implemented a multi-platform campaign to reach Kansans with our message. See how Kansas Strong is helping educate and inform Kansans about the critical role our industry plays."
Martin provides periodic messages dedicated to topics related to the oil & natural gas industry and how they impact our lives. He has appeared at over 200 events in the past year.
"So Kansas is a unique oil and gas producing state. We're 11th leading producing state in the nation. Yet we do not have big oil here in Kansas. We don't we do not have any of the major oil companies here. Only one that it could even slightly be considered a major oil producing company that actually does production here in the state," Martin said. "We have a lot of pipeline companies. We have a lot of refining companies. But oil and gas production is predominantly done by local, independent oil and gas producers across the state. We are almost exclusively a marginal well state."
SHARE YOUR SUSTAINABLE STORY: Rock and Roll Icon Billy Idol is a Rebel With a Cause
Say the name Billy Idol and what comes to mind? Punk icon. Spiked blond hair. Head-to-toe black leather – and you can’t forget that famous curled lip.
How about water conservationist, activist and devoted grandfather?
We didn’t see that coming either. But that doesn’t stop Idol, 68, from continuing to rock out. In fact, he recently found a way to blend his music, activism and love of history at the first concert ever held at the Hoover Dam.
dol admits that earlier on in his life his main focus was on his music – writing songs and getting his career off the ground, first as the lead singer for the punk band Generation X and then as a solo artist. Back then, he wasn’t thinking about the environment all that much.
The change came about, he says, when he settled in Los Angeles in 1987. Having lived there now for nearly 37 years, he has seen the difference in how the climate and the environmental surroundings have gradually changed – and not for the better.
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TODAY IN ENERGY NEWS BRIEFS
US Administration Moves to Limit Oil and Gas Development in Arctic Region
The US administration is set to implement significant restrictions on oil and gas development in Alaska’s Arctic region, reported Bloomberg.
A century ago, the US set aside 23 million acres, called the National Petroleum Reserve, on Alaska’s North Slope as an emergency oil supply.
This move, which could be finalised within days, represents one of President Joe Biden’s most substantial efforts to curtail fossil fuel exploration on federal lands, aligning with his climate change mitigation and land conservation goals.
Lankford, Mullin and others fight latest EPA rules targeting oil and gas
U.S. Sens. James Lankford and Markwayne Mullin were among those forming a coalition of Republican lawmakers in introducing a bill to overturn the President’s environmental regulations targeting oil and gas drilling.
Their bill targets the EPA’s rules that were finalized last year to curb methane and other air pollutants.
“Oklahomans don’t need another high-priced green energy policy from the White House. The EPA’s new emission guidelines are an attack on American energy producers that will make prices increase yet again,” Senator Lankford said.
“Energy prices are already up over 30 percent under President Biden and this new rule promises to increase our energy prices even more. President Biden should focus on all of the above energy solutions that create more jobs and lower prices instead of killing jobs and increasing inflation.”
Op/Ed: It's A Fact: Plastics Produce Lower Emissions. So, Get Over It, Antis!
Science is a fascinating thing, because it so often confounds us, challenges our mistaken ideas and forces us to rethink things. We have, sadly, experiencedand extended period of politicized junk science from the likes of Anthony Fauci and the hired guns of the climate cult, but real science is delivering some stunning facts about, for instance, plastics. And, those facts are hugely politically incorrect.
I'm taking about a recent study published in Environmental Science & Technology. It's titled “Replacing Plastics with Alternatives Is Worse for Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Most Cases” and here is some of the discussion that came from the research (additional paragraphing added for ease of reading, along with emphasis):
These 11 Charts Show Why The U.S. Is A Natural Gas Superpower
Last month, Grist published a 5,000-word article by one of its “climate reporters” that lamented the difficulty of trying to “electrify everything” in the “green, two-story colonial at the end of a cul-de-sac in Burlington, Vermont,” that the reporter shares with his wife. The article “Emission Impossible” was a tiresome exercise that went into minute detail about the cost of induction stoves (“the least expensive models start around $1,100, or almost twice the price of a basic gas stove”) and heat pump dryers.
The writer then went through the wallet-emptying costs of trying to replace their boiler (around $20,000) and the higher cost of heating with electricity than with gas (“We’d spend $1,700 annually compared to the $1,100 or so we spend burning gas to keep warm.”) And then there was the cost of upgrading their electric service, cutting holes in their attic and ceilings, and sundry other tasks that had to be done to, as the writer put it, wean “ourselves off natural gas.” But the effort was worth it, the reporter claimed, because “from a climate perspective...getting rid of gas is a bonanza.”
Yes, well.
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