East Resources, a major drilling company in the Marcellus Shale, especially in Pennsylvania, is selling itself to Royal Dutch Shell for a whopping $4.7 billion. From drilling a single horizontal Marcellus Shale gas well in 2009, East has drilled some 75 horizontal wells in the past 12 months. East did have plans to drill 6,000-7,000 [...]
Not to be outdone by MarkWest’s recent announcement about expanding their processing and fractionation facilities in the Marcellus Shale, Dominion has announced they too have big plans for expansion in the Marcellus Shale, including converting transmission pipeline TL-404—running through Ohio and West Virginia—into a “wet gas service” line. Dominion’s plans also include building new processing [...]
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. [...]
An informative article with a lot of background on the issue of gas royalty payments and the practice of deducting post-production expenses from those payments is published in today’s The State Journal. The article covers in detail the case of Tawney v. Columbia Natural Resources that was settled by the West Virginia Supreme Court in [...]
A lesson for Owego and Tioga County, NY from Marion County, West Virginia where a new wastewater treatment plant is a big success. The AOP Clearwater Plant is located just outside of Fairmont. According to AOP Clearwater President Louis Bonasso, they have had no problems getting customers from oil and gas drilling companies in the [...]
West Virginia Marcellus Shale is getting hot. From an article* in the Steubenville (OH) Herald-Star, we get a mountain of good intelligence on what energy companies have and are paying in the West Virginia panhandle: AB Resources is paying the New Vrindaban Hare Krishna Community in Marshall County $2,500 per acre for approximately 4,000 acres, [...]
The West Virginia State Senate is set to vote on a bill (SB369) that would change the designation of horizontally drilled gas wells in the Marcellus Shale from “deep” wells to “shallow” wells. The reason? To clear up jurisdictional disputes about who regulates and monitors the wells. Deep wells are regulated by the West Virginia [...]
Trans Energy (Nov 18): Press Release: Trans Energy Begins Drilling Third Horizontal Marcellus Well in Marshall County, WV From the press release: Trans Energy, Inc. announced today that it has begun drilling the Whipkey #1H well in Marshall County, West Virginia. The Whipkey #1H will be drilled and completed horizontally in the Marcellus shale. The [...]
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (Oct 14): Drilling water may be cause of fish kill: DEP points to salty discharge from mine Charleston Gazette (Sept 21): Consol mine may not be reason for fish dying An update on the fish kill in the Dunkard Creek which runs along the Pennsylvania and West Virginia border. As you recall, MDN [...]
Poughkeepsie Journal (Oct 8): Outdoors: Balance must be struck between energy, environment More misinformation from the anti-drilling crowd. The “reporter” for this article, Bill Conners, starts with general information that is of interest for everyone in New York: According to the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, there have been more than 75,000 oil [...]
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