Total, Dominion, Sempra: Your Daily Energy News

News highlights gathered by Industrial Info and IIR Energy (Sugar Land, Texas) dealing with the energy markets.

CORPORATE
Total to Divest $5 Billion in Assets - French energy giant Total (NYSE:TOT) will sell about $5 billion of assets, mostly from its exploration and production business, as it sharpens its focus on low-breakeven projects that can weather weak oil prices. (Reuters)

PIPELINES
U.S. Court Vacates Permit for Dominion's Atlantic Coast Pipeline - A U.S. appeals court on Friday vacated a permit by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service that allowed Dominion Energy (NYSE:D) to build its Atlantic Coast natural gas pipeline from West Virginia to North Carolina in areas inhabited by threatened or endangered species. Dominion suspended construction of the long-delayed project in early December after the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond, Virginia, stayed the Fish and Wildlife Service's permit. (Projects 300168253 , 300167416, 300243526, 300168124) (Reuters)

LNG
U.S. Approves Commercial Service for Sempra's Cameron LNG Plant - U.S. energy regulators on Friday approved Sempra Energy's (NYSE:SRE) request to commence commercial service of the first liquefaction train at its $10 billion Cameron liquefied natural gas export (LNG) terminal in Louisiana. (Project 300073863) (Reuters)

PRODUCTION
U.S. Drillers Cut Oil Rigs - U.S. drillers cut the number of rigs drilling for oil by three for the week ending July 26, to 776, the lowest since February 2018. (Reuters)

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