MDN Takes a Brief Pause for Good Friday & Easter

Happy Easter Marcellus Drilling News is taking today (Friday) off in observance of Good Friday and the Easter holiday. We wish you a blessed Easter, Happy Passover, or just a “best wishes and have a great holiday weekend.” We’ll be back with all of the Marcellus and Utica Shale news on Monday!

Jim Willis, Editor, MDN

Today’s Brief 2-Story Issue of MDN

A very (very!) short “issue” of MDN today. We cover the formation of a new self-appointed group that intends to regulate the entire drilling industry. We felt it was important enough to ignore the rest of the news and focus solely on this. Regular news will be back tomorrow. Please take time to read today’s two stories about the CSSD.

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Calendar of Events for Mar 4-17, 2013 [Free]

Below are upcoming events for this week and next.

New York


Ohio


Pennsylvania

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Live from Columbus, OH… Utica Shale Confab – Day 2

Wednesday was the conclusion of the two-day 2nd Utica Shale Development & Growth Forum in Columbus, Ohio. MDN Editor Jim Willis moderated a panel of shale industry media reporters. It was fun! (See my presentation slides below.) We also heard speakers from MarkWest, Penn State’s Marcellus Center, and from Cabot Oil & Gas. Jim’s conference notes from Day 2, including a slip about new numbers coming Gulfport in the Utica…

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A Quick Note from MDN

MDN Editor Jim Willis is freshly (or rather unfreshly) back from Columbus, Ohio today. We’re publishing a single story—an important one—about the impending lawsuit from the Joint Landowners Coalition of New York against the State of New York. We will bring you the rest of our Utica Shale conference notes and all of the rest of the news from across the Marcellus and Utica Shale region tomorrow.

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MDN Calls It: PA Hits 2 Trillion in NatGas Production in 2012

told ya Last month MDN released Volume 3 of the Marcellus and Utica Shale Databook. We predicted something in the ‘Drilling Update’ section that Databook readers have now known for a month—that Pennsylvania would hit the 2 trillion cubic feet of natural gas production milestone for 2012. The exact quote from the Databook, published at the end of January: “Pennsylvania, which just passed 1 trillion cubic feet of shale natural gas production in 2011, will double that and hit 2 trillion cubic feet of production for 2012. In addition, we believe Ohio’s Utica Shale will achieve 67 billion cubic feet of production for 2012.” We also predicted: “WV will likely double production again, so we’re estimating they will show an increase to 455 bcf for 2012.” (Databook Volume 3, page 10)

We don’t yet have 2012 final numbers for OH and WV, but our prediction for PA was spot on and is now verified by the latest reports just released by the PA Dept. of Environmental Protection:

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