Velda Addison

Houston

Dallas native living in the Houston area, award-winning journalist now covering #oilandgas @Hart_EPMag, Texas Ex, habitual Target shopper, wife and mom

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Articles

US Halts Construction of Equinor’s Empire Wind Project Offshore NY

1 week ago | hartenergy.com | Velda Addison

U.S. Interior Secretary Doug Burgum is directing the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) to immediately halt construction activities on the Empire Wind project being developed offshore New York by Equinor.
Tariff Uncertainty Expected to Disrupt Clean Energy Supply Chains

1 week ago | hartenergy.com | Velda Addison

Electricity demand is rising. Permitting issues remain. Clean energy incentives are in jeopardy. Supply chain challenges are sending prices up. Critical equipment such as transformers are delayed. And, domestic manufacturing is insufficient to meet all U.S. energy needs. Now, clean energy players are facing yet another disruption: tariffs. “We’ve already had these huge supply disruptions just in general, trying to get the materials they need.
The Chicken or the Egg? Policy and Tech Needed to Enable Hydrogen Market

1 week ago | hartenergy.com | Velda Addison

Project-enabling policy and improved technology to help lower costs will be needed to enable development of low-carbon hydrogen projects, according to energy industry executives. “There’s no way you can take a methane molecule or a natural gas molecule, build an SMR [steam methane reforming], put carbon capture on it. Store the carbon and have the product that pops out be less expensive than the thing you put in,” said Steve Kellogg, hydrogen strategy adviser for Exxon Mobil Corp.
Energy Transition in Motion (Week of April 11, 2025)

1 week ago | hartenergy.com | Velda Addison

Norway’s Equinor will combine its renewables, energy storage and gas-to-power portfolios into one power-focused business unit as it looks to capitalize on rising electricity demand. “By combining our renewables portfolio with our flexible power offering, we strengthen our competitiveness and value creation in the power market,” Equinor CEO Anders Opedal said April 10.
Hydrogen Hopefuls Advised to Focus on Offtake Amidst Funding Turbulence

2 weeks ago | hartenergy.com | Velda Addison

With the fate of federal funding in limbo, Paul Browning advises companies with ambitions to scale hydrogen to “focus on your offtake right now.”Browning, co-founding partner of Energy Transition Finance, was among several panelists at the recent World Hydrogen North America conference in Houston who emphasized the importance of securing offtake agreements to lock in financing, scale production and drive down costs.
CF Industries Form JV to Build $4B Low-Carbon Ammonia Project in Louisiana

2 weeks ago | hartenergy.com | Velda Addison

Louisiana’s Ascension Parish is set to become home to one of the world’s largest low-carbon ammonia facilities after CF Industries Holdings (CFI) and partners reached a final investment decision (FID) for a $4 billion project.
Oxy Secures Class VI Permits for Stratos DAC Project

2 weeks ago | hartenergy.com | Velda Addison

Occidental Petroleum subsidiary 1PointFive has landed highly anticipated permits from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), allowing the company to store captured CO2 in deep underground formations. Receipt of the so-called Class VI permit for the massive direct air capture (DAC) Stratos project in Texas was announced April 7 as the company continues to progress infrastructure.
Energy Transition in Motion (Week of April 4, 2025)

2 weeks ago | hartenergy.com | Velda Addison

Maverick Metals has secured $19 million during an equity funding round led by Olive Tree Capital, according to an April 3 news release. The funds are intended to help the San Antonio, Texas-based company accelerate commercialization of proprietary critical metals recovery technology and contracts with major mining companies to expand its LithX pilot deployments.
‘Trump Effect’ Stalls Hydrogen FIDs, Already Killing Projects

3 weeks ago | hartenergy.com | Velda Addison

The U.S. is expected to become the world’s leader in hydrogen production using abundant natural gas resources as feedstock, industry experts say, with energy powerhouses like Exxon Mobil and BP planning multibillion-dollar projects. However, the nation trails other countries when it comes to the final investment decisions (FID) needed to make projects a reality. Regulatory and policy uncertainty coupled with offtake, costs and other concerns have given some developers pause.
Hitting the Gas: Opal Fuels Accelerating RNG Growth

3 weeks ago | hartenergy.com | Velda Addison

With thousands of active landfills across the U.S., Opal Fuels co-CEO Jon Maurer sees plenty of opportunities to capture biogas from decomposing waste and transform it into renewable natural gas (RNG). “There’s economies of scale to building one of these projects. The larger landfills are the easiest ones to do, and as you start to get down your pyramid to smaller sized projects, there’s more and more of them,” he said.