UPDATE (July 6): It seems the list below is not completely accurate, as admitted by the PA DEP. The list below includes chemicals and substances stored on site (like diesel fuel and oil) that are not injected into the ground. MDN will furnish an updated list when it becomes available from the DEP. An earlier [...]
From a Dominion press release issued today: Dominion today announced that its natural gas transmission and storage subsidiary, Dominion Transmission, has reached a 15-year agreement with the gas subsidiary of CONSOL Energy Inc. for firm transportation of CONSOL’s Marcellus shale natural gas production. The project, capable of transporting 200,000 dekatherms per day, will move supplies [...]
MarkWest Liberty Midstream is partnering with Sunoco Logistics to use existing and new pipelines in a project that will take Marcellus Shale gas liquids (ethane) from the northeast all the way to the Gulf Coast. How’s that for a change?! Ethane is primarily used in manufacturing plastics and is one of the by-products obtained from [...]
As MDN has previously reported (see this story), MarkWest Energy operates more than 100 gas compressor facilities, including two in Mount Pleasant Township in Washington County, PA—the location of the very first horizontally drilled Marcellus Shale gas well. There has been tension between area residents and MarkWest about the facilities over issues of noise, lights [...]
Companies involved in drilling, processing and transporting Marcellus Shale gas in Pennsylvania are looking to contract with local businesses and hire local people to work for them. On the list are… Contractors for: clearing land constructing well pads setting up rigs running wirelines hauling waste hauling dirt mechanical work civil work electrical work environmental surveyors [...]
National Fuel has struck a deal with Statoil and East Resources and is expanding two pipelines to handle Pennsylvania Marcellus Shale gas, sending it to markets in Canada and the Northeastern U.S. The announcement says National Fuel will build 16 miles of new pipeline from Corning, NY to Tioga County, PA, and construct a new [...]
Kinder Morgan, a pipeline and energy storage company, will build a new 250-mile pipeline from Pennsylvania to the Cochin Pipeline in Michigan to move Marcellus Shale gas to processing facilities and markets in the Midwestern U.S. and Canada. From the Kinder Morgan press release: HOUSTON, April 20, 2010 – Kinder Morgan Energy Partners, L.P. today [...]
A Pittsburgh startup company formed at the Pittsburgh Allegheny-Singer Research Institute believes it has developed a better solution than current alternatives for treating wastewater from drilling Marcellus Shale gas wells. Frac Biologics Inc. was founded by physicians, so it’s no surprise the technology comes from the medical community: “The idea for the company came from [...]
MarkWest Liberty Midstream & Resources—also known as MarkWest Energy—announced today it is expanding its processing and fractionation capacity in the Marcellus Shale in West Virginia (Marshall County) and Pennsylvania (Washington County). What exactly does that mean, and why should landowners care? MarkWest is a “midstream” company, providing processing, storage, transportation and marketing for natural gas. [...]
After getting turned down by the supervisors in Athens Township, PA, Somerset Regional Water Resources is now planning to build a Marcellus wastewater treatment plant in nearby Tuscarora Township. Both Athens and Tuscarora are located in Bradford County in Northeastern Pennsylvania. A search of DEP permit applications confirms that Somerset has applied for a permit [...]
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