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Business Wire
2 days ago
- Business
- Business Wire
Northwind Midstream Partners Announces Permitting of Third AGI Injection Well, Final Approval of MRV Plan, and the Completion of New Compressor Station
HOUSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Northwind Midstream Partners LLC ('Northwind' or the 'Company') today announced that it has received a final order from the New Mexico Oil Conservation Commission approving an additional acid gas injection ('AGI') and carbon sequestration well to be located at the Company's Titan Treating Complex in Lea County, New Mexico. New Devonian AGI Well This will be Northwind's third AGI well, increasing the Company's total permitted daily injection capacity to ~37 million standard cubic feet per day (MMSCFD) of total acid gas ('TAG') when completed in 2026. The injection zone of the new well will target the Devonian formation in the Northern Delaware Basin, and combined with Northwind's existing Devonian AGI well, it will give the Company a total of ~29 MMSCFD of permitted Devonian injection capacity. The new well also provides additional redundancy for Northwind's existing TAG disposal operations at the Titan Treating Complex and will underpin the Company's previously announced expansion of the Titan Complex. The Titan Complex currently operates 150 million cubic feet per day (MMcf/d) of high-circulation amine treating capacity and two AGI and carbon sequestration wells. As part of the buildout of the Titan Complex, Northwind expects to complete its Train #3 by mid-year 2025, which will increase total treating capacity to 200 MMcf/d. Additionally, Northwind has reached FID and customer support to further expand total treating capacity to 400 MMcf/d by 2026. EPA Approval of MRV Plan Northwind has also received a milestone approval from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency ('EPA') for its monitoring, reporting and verification ('MRV') plan for the permanent sequestration of carbon dioxide ('CO 2 ') at the Titan Treating Complex. Northwind's MRV plan documents how the Company will ensure permanent sequestration of CO 2 in its AGI wells from natural gas treated at the Titan Complex. The MRV approval, in conjunction with meeting other statutory requirements, will allow Northwind to qualify for 45Q tax credits. Completion of Pelham Compressor Station In addition to building out the Titan Complex, Northwind has significantly expanded its natural gas gathering and compression network throughout Lea County. The Company recently placed into service its fifth NACE standard compressor station with initial capacity of 25 MMcf/d. This brings Northwind's total compression capacity to ~225 MMcf/d across its full system. Northwind's gathering and compression network, which is designed specifically to manage produced natural gas with high levels of hydrogen sulfide and carbon dioxide, includes over 200 miles of large-diameter steel pipelines and 47,250 horsepower of compression across five compressor stations. Five Point Perspective David Capobianco, CEO and Managing Partner of Five Point Infrastructure, said, 'Regulatory approval validates Northwind's platform as providing the essential infrastructure needed to expand safe and reliable capacity in Lea County, New Mexico, an increasingly important oil producing region.' Management Perspective 'With these approvals in hand, we look forward to advancing the build out of our Titan Treating Complex, providing our producer partners in Lea County with essential off-spec gas gathering, treating, and sequestration capacity,' said Northwind CEO Matt Spicer. 'The expansion of this facility, along with the addition of our new compressor station, will contribute to the continued growth of the oil and gas industry across the Northern Delaware Basin, while also helping producers manage emissions.' About Northwind Midstream Partners Established in 2022, Northwind's strategy is to develop, own and operate off-spec gas infrastructure in the Permian Basin. Northwind operates a highly efficient, environmentally focused and exceedingly reliable midstream system, which unlocks overall customer value while mitigating customer environmental concerns. Northwind's developed solution provides producers with (i) a superior economic alternative, (ii) significant operational enhancements, (iii) meaningful emissions reductions, and (iv) tangible ESG benefits. Learn more at About Five Point Infrastructure Five Point Infrastructure LLC (formerly known as Five Point Energy LLC) is a private equity and infrastructure investor focused on investments within the North American powered land, surface management, water management, and sustainable infrastructure sectors. The firm was founded by industry veterans with demonstrated records of success investing in, building, and running infrastructure companies. Based in Houston, Texas, Five Point has approximately $8 billion of assets under management across multiple investment funds. For further information, please visit
Yahoo
2 days ago
- Business
- Yahoo
Northwind Midstream Partners Announces Permitting of Third AGI Injection Well, Final Approval of MRV Plan, and the Completion of New Compressor Station
Northwind on track to increase total permitted daily injection capacity to ~37 million MMSCFD of TAG by 2026 MRV approval qualifies Northwind for 45Q tax credits Fifth NACE standard compressor station increases total compression capacity to ~225 MMcf/d HOUSTON, May 29, 2025--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Northwind Midstream Partners LLC ("Northwind" or the "Company") today announced that it has received a final order from the New Mexico Oil Conservation Commission approving an additional acid gas injection ("AGI") and carbon sequestration well to be located at the Company's Titan Treating Complex in Lea County, New Mexico. New Devonian AGI Well This will be Northwind's third AGI well, increasing the Company's total permitted daily injection capacity to ~37 million standard cubic feet per day (MMSCFD) of total acid gas ("TAG") when completed in 2026. The injection zone of the new well will target the Devonian formation in the Northern Delaware Basin, and combined with Northwind's existing Devonian AGI well, it will give the Company a total of ~29 MMSCFD of permitted Devonian injection capacity. The new well also provides additional redundancy for Northwind's existing TAG disposal operations at the Titan Treating Complex and will underpin the Company's previously announced expansion of the Titan Complex. The Titan Complex currently operates 150 million cubic feet per day (MMcf/d) of high-circulation amine treating capacity and two AGI and carbon sequestration wells. As part of the buildout of the Titan Complex, Northwind expects to complete its Train #3 by mid-year 2025, which will increase total treating capacity to 200 MMcf/d. Additionally, Northwind has reached FID and customer support to further expand total treating capacity to 400 MMcf/d by 2026. EPA Approval of MRV Plan Northwind has also received a milestone approval from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency ("EPA") for its monitoring, reporting and verification ("MRV") plan for the permanent sequestration of carbon dioxide ("CO2") at the Titan Treating Complex. Northwind's MRV plan documents how the Company will ensure permanent sequestration of CO2 in its AGI wells from natural gas treated at the Titan Complex. The MRV approval, in conjunction with meeting other statutory requirements, will allow Northwind to qualify for 45Q tax credits. Completion of Pelham Compressor Station In addition to building out the Titan Complex, Northwind has significantly expanded its natural gas gathering and compression network throughout Lea County. The Company recently placed into service its fifth NACE standard compressor station with initial capacity of 25 MMcf/d. This brings Northwind's total compression capacity to ~225 MMcf/d across its full system. Northwind's gathering and compression network, which is designed specifically to manage produced natural gas with high levels of hydrogen sulfide and carbon dioxide, includes over 200 miles of large-diameter steel pipelines and 47,250 horsepower of compression across five compressor stations. Five Point Perspective David Capobianco, CEO and Managing Partner of Five Point Infrastructure, said, "Regulatory approval validates Northwind's platform as providing the essential infrastructure needed to expand safe and reliable capacity in Lea County, New Mexico, an increasingly important oil producing region." Management Perspective "With these approvals in hand, we look forward to advancing the build out of our Titan Treating Complex, providing our producer partners in Lea County with essential off-spec gas gathering, treating, and sequestration capacity," said Northwind CEO Matt Spicer. "The expansion of this facility, along with the addition of our new compressor station, will contribute to the continued growth of the oil and gas industry across the Northern Delaware Basin, while also helping producers manage emissions." About Northwind Midstream Partners Established in 2022, Northwind's strategy is to develop, own and operate off-spec gas infrastructure in the Permian Basin. Northwind operates a highly efficient, environmentally focused and exceedingly reliable midstream system, which unlocks overall customer value while mitigating customer environmental concerns. Northwind's developed solution provides producers with (i) a superior economic alternative, (ii) significant operational enhancements, (iii) meaningful emissions reductions, and (iv) tangible ESG benefits. Learn more at About Five Point Infrastructure Five Point Infrastructure LLC (formerly known as Five Point Energy LLC) is a private equity and infrastructure investor focused on investments within the North American powered land, surface management, water management, and sustainable infrastructure sectors. The firm was founded by industry veterans with demonstrated records of success investing in, building, and running infrastructure companies. Based in Houston, Texas, Five Point has approximately $8 billion of assets under management across multiple investment funds. For further information, please visit View source version on Contacts Media:Daniel Yunger / Nathaniel ShahanKekst /
The Herald Scotland
24-05-2025
- The Herald Scotland
I revisited my childhood on one of UK's new long-distance road trips
Hang on, isn't this tourism Mecca already oversubscribed, I hear you ask? Not any more it isn't. Slumping post-Covid figures have led a small team of businesses to set up SW660 in the wake of hotel and holiday centre closures. Even Cornwall's flagship tourist attraction, the Eden Centre, has had to lay off 80 members of staff due to a slump in visitors. A perfect storm of unreliable weather and inflated prices have led to holidaymakers voting with two fingers to England's beautiful peninsula. During the 'staycation' period much of the area was crammed to the gunwales. Many exploited their monopoly with price hikes and now significant numbers, it would seem, have neither forgotten nor forgiven. The worst hit area has been the already impoverished county of Cornwall so I decide to check out the route, focusing largely on the 200-mile coastal drive around Poldark country. Mark and his mother Jean (Image: Mark Porter) I pack my bag and my mother - who is Cornish by birth - plus my brother Tom into a smart electric Lotus Eletre SUV and hit the road. Tom and I spent our childhoods beachcombing in North Cornwall and have an affinity with its odd charm. The futuristic car looks like a Stealth bomber were it not for the bright yellow Lotus livery. 'It should come with crash hats and a G-suit,' says mum who was more shaken than stirred by its whiplash acceleration. We start from the Devonian port of Plymouth, an under-rated city where we ignore the post-war concrete bits and instead stroll around the elegant Georgian streets of the Hoe and the medieval splendour of the Barbican, which the German WWII bombs thankfully missed. The Barbican is where 102 austere pilgrims boarded the Mayflower and set sail in 1620 for the New World, but in a decidedly unpuritanical spirit we decide to visit the 14th century Blackfriars meeting hall, now the home of Plymouth Gin, for a guided tour. Mark and his brother Tom at Plymouth Gin Distillery (Image: Mark Porter) 'No ship left port without a big stock of gin, apart from the Mayflower,' says our spirited guide. Could there be a connection here with the number of wrecks that adorn the seabed of Plymouth Sound? We dine out in a splendid locals' restaurant in a cobbled street and the following morning cross the River Tamar, which acts as the county boundary, on the Torpoint ferry. Suddenly the roads become twisting lanes with spectacular coastal views. We pass the beaches of Cawsand and Kingsand, hidden gems where my mother played as a child. 'Uncle John launched the tin bathtub from here,' she says. 'It sank.' Unperturbed, John went on to spend 40 years in the navy. It is late afternoon and it's raining heavily when we reach St Austell (pronounced 'Snozzle' by the locals) so a guided tour of the St Austell Brewery seems a good idea. It used to be a byword for filthy beer, but in recent years has produced some of the finest ales in the land, and has rescued many a local pub. Nearby is Charlestown, which will be familiar to practically everyone as its spectacular ancient harbour has featured in Dr Who, Poldark, and the film The Eagle Has Landed, to name but a few. We check into the Pier House, a small pub/hotel adjoining the harbour. The angry ocean crashes over the outer sea walls and we dine on local gamebird. A seadog who has been lashed to the bar all evening puts on his sou'wester and careens into the night. I watch him cross a perilous gangplank onto a sailing boat moored outside, in the calm of the inner harbour. Central Casting could never find anyone that authentic. "He's become a local," says the barmaid. 'I think he's from Tunbridge Wells.' The weather has cleared and we head west past Dodman Point and Mevagissey. We stop for an ice cream at the Idle Rocks hotel in St Mawes, before taking the King Harry chain ferry across Carrick Roads towards Falmouth. At the historic Greenbank hotel, on the edge of the ancient deep water harbour with terrific views up the junglelike mouth of the Fal, we have lunch looking out on dinghies, sailboats and the Royal Navy's auxiliary fleet. Falmouth's National Maritime Museum is a cornucopia of history, boatbuilding, seafaring and a great place for kids and adults alike. But so too is The Oddfellows Arms, where we head afterwards. The next morning we pass Penzance, skirt Land's End and are on the north coast where the Channel morphs into the raw Atlantic. Craggy tors dominate the skyline with tufts of gorse and lichen seeping from ancient cracks in the jagged granite. The scenery opens up - rolling greensward as far as the eye can see, bordered by a white-flecked, seething ocean which beats against the beetling cliffs. We visit the squat Norman church at Zennor where yew trees keep vigil over the graves of wreckers and miners. Next door at the 700-year-old Tinners Arms hikers hunker down in front of an open fire. Past St Ives we check into our new billet at Three Mile Beach. We are in a three-bedroom bungalow with sauna, hot tub and log-burner a short stroll from the famous surfing beach of Gwithian Towans. The following day we move on past Fistral Beach and head to The Pig at Harlyn Bay, a 15th century Cornish manor house with log fires crackling in each public room and a kitchen garden supplying much of the needs of the locally sourced and excellent restaurant. Only a thick slate wall separates The Pig from the sands of Harlyn Bay. The Pig at Harlyn Bay (Image: Mark Porter) The final drive takes us to Port Isaac, home of TV's grumpy Doc Martin, a pretty fishing village near Rock. We cross Bodmin Moor, past Brown Willy, Cornwall's highest point which looms nearly 1,500 feet above the granitic moorland. 'I do like the Flying Banana,' confesses mum from the leather-clad comfort of the passenger seat. It's her nickname for the Lotus. 'I could get used to it.' Our final night is at Boringdon Hall Hotel just outside Plymouth. It boasts a wonderful spa. Tom and I lounge in the outdoor bit of the heated pool after checking out the saunas and hammams. We sign off the family odyssey with dinner at its Michelin-starred Aclèaf restaurant. The plates are such works of art that it seems a shame to despoil them. Almost. Footnote: the SW660 is best tackled out of peak holiday time and you might want to park up and enjoy some of the villages on foot. Don't forget your credit cards. Fact Box E-Vehicle Lotus Eletre. Zap-Map. Vital resource to avoid range anxiety Plymouth Boringdon Hall Hotel Hotel Moxy Charlestown Pier House Hotel Falmouth Greenbank Hotel Gwithian Towans Three Mile Beach Harlyn Bay The Pig at Harlyn Bay
Yahoo
19-05-2025
- Science
- Yahoo
Scientists Found Footprints That Push Humanity's Timeline Back By 40 Million Years
"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Here's what you'll learn in this story: The common ancestor of all tetrapods (including humans) was previously thought to have emerged at the dawn of the Carboniferous period. Fossilized tracks from an early reptile are now the oldest known reptilian tracks, meaning the tetrapod ancestor most likely appeared earlier, during the Devonian period. These tracks were made by clawed feet—a characteristic of amniotes. Their appearance pushes back amniotes evolution by 35-40 million years. Between 359 and 350 million years ago, it rained. Lizard-like creatures crawled through the mud in what was once Gondwana (but is now Australia), leaving behind footprints that became frozen in time, fossilizing as mud turned to stone over the aeons. These tracks would later be unearthed in an excavation that questioned how far back in time our tetrapod ancestors walked on land. Tetrapods (meaning 'four legs' in Greek) include all amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals, and are thought to originate from lobe-finned fish that made their way out of primeval seas on fins that functioned as primitive legs. Humans are tetrapods, and like all tetrapods (except amphibians), we are also amniotes, with eggs that protect developing embryos in amniotic sacs. Amniotes are thought to have diverged from amphibians at the dawn of the Carboniferous period, about 355 million years ago. Mammals would diverge from reptiles and birds only 30 million years later. The fossil footprints were discovered at the edge of an paleontological site in eastern Victoria known as Broken River (or Berrepit in Taungurung, the language spoken by local indigenous people). Whatever creature left imprints of its feet on the riverbank provides the first evidence of terrestrial life in this area, and claw marks from the footprints suggest it was an amniote—except that amniotes weren't supposed to have evolved so early in the Carboniferous period. 'This pushes back the likely origin of crown-group amniotes by at least 35-40 million years,' the Australian and Swedish team of researchers who excavated at the Berrepit site said in a study recently published in the journal Nature. '[Amniotes] cannot be much younger than the Devonian/Carboniferous boundary, and [the origin of tetrapods] must be located deep within the Devonian.' Before this find, the oldest known amniote fossils were tracks from Notalacerta and the bones of Hylonomus. Both species were sauropsids—part of a larger group of extant and extinct reptiles and birds that presumably lived during the late Carboniferous. The common ancestor of all tetrapods was thought to have emerged in the earliest years of the Carboniferous, but that changed when this team of experts came upon the mysterious tetrapod footsteps from Berrepit. They now think that the tetrapod ancestor appeared during the Devonian, and that amniotes began to diverge from them about 395 million years ago, 35 to 40 million years earlier than previously thought. It is evident that the footsteps came not just from a tetrapod, but from an amniote because almost all amniotes have claws or nails. Claw marks scratched the wet earth after a short rain shower, and there is no evidence of a body or tail dragged across the ground. While it is impossible to know what this animal actually looked like, the spacing between forefeet and hind feet indicates that it was about 17 cm (about 6.7 inches) from shoulder to hip, with neck, head, and tail lengths unknown. Using a modern water monitor as a proxy, the researchers determined it must have been about 80 cm (about 31.5 inches) total in length. Something else could possibly be demystified by the footprints—the end-Devonian mass extinction was thought to have such a catastrophic impact, it could explain why tetrapods don't appear in the fossil record for another 20 million years. Tetrapods dating to after the gap are much more diverse and advanced than their pre-gap predecessors. Early Carboniferous sauropsid tracks mean that tetrapods must have been branching out from their common ancestor sometime during the Devonian, meaning that the mass extinction had little effect on the evolution of tetrapods. 'The [fossil footprints] have a disproportionate impact on our understanding of early tetrapod evolution because of their combination of diagnostic amniote characteristics and early, securely constrained date,' the researchers said. 'They demonstrate, once more, the extraordinary importance of happenstance and serendipity in the study of severely under-sampled parts of the fossil record.' You Might Also Like The Do's and Don'ts of Using Painter's Tape The Best Portable BBQ Grills for Cooking Anywhere Can a Smart Watch Prolong Your Life?
The Print
18-05-2025
- Science
- The Print
Discovery of ancient ‘reptile' claw fossils kicks evolution's timeline back by over 35 million years
'I'm stunned,' Per Ahlberg from Uppsala University, who led the study, said in a media release . 'A single track-bearing slab, which one person can lift, calls into question everything we thought we knew about when modern tetrapods evolved.' A study published in Nature Wednesday dates the fossil tracks to be approximately 355 million years old. It pushes the origin of the species back by 35 to 40 million years from what was earlier thought to be the point when tetrapods evolved from a group of fish that left the sea. This has an implication on the history of human evolution given that we are direct descendants of these tetrapods. New Delhi: The discovery of ancient fossil footprints of claws in Australia have scientists across the world re-examining evolutionary times of land-based vertebrates. It was two amateur explorers who discovered the tracks on the banks of the Broken River in Taungurung Country, Victoria, and alerted paleontologists. They were preserved on the upper surface of a loose but fine-grained silty sandstone block. In the Nature study, the authors called it a 'demonstration of the value of citizen science.' Uppsala University's Ahlberg teamed up with paleontologists from Australia's Flinders University. 'Once we identified this, we realised this is the oldest evidence in the world of reptile-like animals walking around on land, and it pushes their evolution back by 35-to-40 million years older than the previous records in the Northern Hemisphere,' said Professor John Long of Flinders University in a press release. Their findings are threatening to upend our understanding of evolution of all tetrapods. Also Read: 47 yrs ago, this Indian-origin physicist asked Feynman a question. He hasn't looked back since When did the first tetrapods emerge? As the word suggests, tetrapods include all species that have 'four feet'. They are the first colonists on land and their origin began when fish transitioned from the oceans to adapt to life on land. They are the distant ancestors of all modern amphibians and amniotes that includes vertebrate animals like reptiles, birds and mammals, including humans. The oldest known tetrapods had primitive fish-like forms, and could barely move on land. The separation of amphibians and amniotes was so far believed to have begun at the start of the Carboniferous period, some 355 million years ago. This separation is known as the tetrapod crown group node. The new study changes what was previously known by suggesting that the separation dates back to the Devonian period, some 390 million years ago. 'The timeline of these events has seemed clear-cut: the first tetrapods evolved during the Devonian period and the earliest members of the modern groups appeared during the following Carboniferous period,' according to the media release from Uppsala University. It's the claws that have generated much excitement within the scientific community. 'Claws are present in all early amniotes, but almost never in other groups of tetrapods,' said Ahlberg. 'The combination of the claw scratches and the shape of the feet suggests that the track maker was a primitive reptile.' The study also suggests that tetrapods originated in Gondwana, the southern supercontinent which Australia was a part of. It also included present-day South America, Africa, Arabia, Madagascar, India, and Antarctica. The researchers have also found new fossil reptile footprints from Poland, suggesting that tetrapods in the Euramerica—the supercontinent that formed during the Devonian period and included North America, Greenland, northern Europe, and Russia—also originated earlier than previously thought. So far, researchers have found only fossilised footprints and no fossil bones of ancient tetrapods, but if the new timelines are correct, the fossil footprints findings suggest that the evolution into land-based animals occurred not just earlier but also much quicker than initially thought. (Edited by Radifah Kabir) Also Read: Search for an Indian Carl Sagan is on. Science influencers are being trained in labs and likes
