Meter Reading: Big Drillers Head to Shallow Gulf, Plunging Power Plant Values Mean Trouble, Huge Refinery’s Little Leak

BOEM Director: Shallow Water Drilling in the Gulf is Back – BOEM’s Tommy Beaudreau: “There’s been that belief that the shallow water was dead.” But instead, “we got bids on nearly 200 lease blocks” -Platts Energy Week

Coal-Plant Plunge Threatens Billions in Pollution Spend  The coal-fired power industry in the U.S. is facing the biggest plunge in asset values in a decade, risking billions of dollars in pollution-control spending by utilities   -Bloomberg

In hours, caustic vapors wreaked quiet ruin on biggest US refinery – In the end, all it took was a small chemical spill — perhaps less than a barrelful — to bring down the newest, mightiest oil refinery in the United States. - Reuters