-The oil and gas industry on Thursday launched a new Information Sharing and Analysis Center (ISAC) to share information on malware and cybercrime activity that targets specific industries. The announcement follows the retail industry’s launch of an ISAC last month. Via Information Week, 60% of the critical infrastructure security events worked on by the Department of Homeland Security last year were in the energy sector.
-Independent E&P firm QEP Resources filed documents with the SEC in connection with the proposed spin-off of its midstream field services business. QEP is also soliciting proposals for alternative transactions to spin off the midstream field services unit. QEP first announced its intent to separate the midstream business last December.
-Encana Corp. agreed to sell its Bighorn assets in Alberta to Apollo Global Management for $1.8 billion. Via Bloomberg, the sale includes 360,000 acres with total net proved reserves of 1.1 trillion cubic feet equivalent as of the end of 2013. Approximately 75% of those reserves are natural gas. Encana is shifting its focus from natural gas to oil.
-The Department of Energy said a carbon capture project at Air Products and Chemicals’ facility in Port Arthur, Texas, has captured one million metric tons of carbon dioxide since its launch in 2012. The Air Products facility produces hydrogen for Valero’s Port Arthur refinery.
-Greenpeace said earlier this week its chief program director would end his practice of flying 220 miles — roughly the distance between Houston and Lafayette, La. — several times a month to visit his family. Via Reuters, Greenpeace has campaigned to force airlines to end short-distance flights.
