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Tennessee Gas Pipeline from PA to NJ Clears Major Hurdle

The Tennessee Gas Pipeline Northeast Upgrade Project (previously reported on here), also known as the 300 Line Project, has just cleared a major hurdle on its way to becoming reality. The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) has completed an environmental assessment of the proposed project and has found there will be no major impact to [...]

New Marcellus Wastewater Treatment Plant Coming to Elk County, PA

DuBois Courier-Express/Tri-County (Feb 20) Marcellus shale drilling water may be treated at local acid mine treatment site
Drillers in the Marcellus Shale in Pennsylvania will soon have a new plant to treat wastewater, called flowback, from drilling activities. The new plant will be located in Brandy Camp (Elk County), PA. From the article:
The project [...]

Cabot Oil & Gas Reports Increase in Production, New Wells Coming Online in 2010 in PA

PR Newswire (Feb 21) Cabot Oil & Gas Provides Operations Update Current Marcellus Production Over 100 Mmcf per Day!
From a press release just issued by Cabot Oil & Gas, we get the following update on their Marcellus drilling activities (below is exact wording from the release):
During the third quarter call, Cabot announced its [...]

Patriot Water Treatment Plant in Owego Gets a Yellow Light

Binghamton Press & Sun-Bulletin (Feb 17)
Owego wastewater plan hits snag
Patriot Water Treatment wants to build a wastewater treatment plant in Owego, NY. The plant would take in fracking water from drilling operations in the region, treat it, and return the water back to drillers to be used again. According to Andrew Blocksom, of Patriot, the [...]

Tennessee Gas Pipeline to Invest $400 Million in New Pipeline from PA to NJ

El Paso Press Release (Feb 16) El Paso Corporation Announces Northeast Upgrade Project
Part of the development required to tap the huge natural gas reserves in the Marcellus includes the infrastructure to get the gas from well to market. El Paso Corporation’s subsidiary Tennessee Gas Pipeline is helping provide the pipeline piece of the [...]

Heckmann and Energy Transfer Partners to Bring Wastewater Treatment Plants to the Marcellus

BusinessWire (Feb 9) Heckmann Corporation and Energy Transfer Partners, L.P. Sign Agreement to Provide Turnkey Solutions for Water Flows Created by Oil and Gas Drilling
Heckmann Corporation and Energy Transfer Partners have entered into a 50/50 joint venture to deliver solutions for:
“transportation and treatment solutions for supply, drilling, flow back, produced, and other [...]

Youngstown, OH Gets 350 New Jobs Due to Marcellus Drilling

The Vindicator (Feb 16) V&M delivers plant, 350 jobs
Youngstown, Ohio is getting a new $650 million pipe mill and 350 new jobs due to Marcellus Shale drilling. V&M Star Steel has just announced they are building a new plant in Youngstown because of its proximity to the Marcellus Shale deposit. The new [...]

Drilling Waste Water Treatment Plant Proposed for Owego

Binghamton Press & Sun-Bulletin (Oct 28):
Drilling processor targets Owego site
From the Oct. 28th Press & Sun-Bulletin:
A plant to treat waste from the Marcellus Shale is on the drawing board in the Town of Owego.
Patriot Water Treatment pitched its plans to convert a former car dealership at 936 Taylor Road to a waste water treatment [...]

Natural gas quest: DEC investigating disposal of fluids by drilling vendor

Press & Sun-Bulletin (Oct 3):
Natural gas quest: DEC investigating disposal of fluids by drilling vendor
Pretty much a non-story story, typical “hit piece” by leftist media. There is a company providing chemicals for drilling, for Pennsylvania companies (PA because so far, since there IS no drilling in New York). Said company, Northeast Mud Services Co. of [...]