Southern Company, Equinor, North Dakota Production: Your Daily Energy News

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

POWER
Southern Company Sells Texas Generating Facility - Southern Company (NYSE:SO) announced that it has closed the sale of the biomass-fired Nacogdoches Generating Facility in Texas to Austin Energy for $460 million. (Plant 1056993) (PR Newswire)

PRODUCTION
Equinor Arctic Exploration Well Proves Dry - Equinor's (NYSE:EQNR) exploration well drilled near its Korpfjell gas find in the Norwegian Arctic has proved to be dry, Norway's Petroleum Directorate said on Monday, in an area near the Russian offshore border the company had hoped would be oil rich. This is another disappointment for Norway, which hoped that the Barents Sea could become its new oil and gas province. (Reuters)

North Dakota's April Gas Production Shows Increase, Oil Flat - North Dakota's crude oil production was flat in April, just below a record set earlier this year, state regulators said Friday. The state produced 1.39 million barrels per day, just 572 barrels below March's average. It produced a record 2.86 billion cubic feet per day of natural gas in April, up less than 26,000 cubic feet from March. (Kallanish Energy)

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