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  • Coterra Energy (Cabot O&G) | Devon Energy | Energy Companies | Pennsylvania

    Devon 2Q26 Numbers Show Why Marcellus Sale Rumors Won’t Die

    August 6, 2026August 6, 2026

    With Devon Energy’s first full quarter as a combined Devon-Coterra company now in the books, the numbers on the former Coterra Marcellus assets tell an interesting story — one that lines up with what MDN has been reporting for months about activist pressure to sell the Appalachian position. Devon reported second-quarter 2026 earnings on August 4, followed by an analyst call on August 5. Buried in the supplemental tables and sprinkled through management’s answers to Wall Street analysts is a clear picture of how the Marcellus fits (or doesn’t) into the new, Permian-obsessed Devon. Below we break down what the company said — and didn’t say — about its Northeast Pennsylvania gas position, plus the latest on the broader portfolio review that has investors like Kimmeridge Energy pushing for a Marcellus sale. Read More “Devon 2Q26 Numbers Show Why Marcellus Sale Rumors Won’t Die”

  • Energy Companies | EOG Resources | Ohio | Statewide OH

    EOG’s Utica Program Hits Its Stride in Record 2Q26

    August 6, 2026August 6, 2026

    Houston-based EOG Resources posted record second-quarter 2026 results on August 4th, and buried inside the good news for shareholders is an even better story for Ohio landowners and the Utica supply chain: the former Encino Energy assets EOG bought a year ago are now outperforming the company’s own pre-acquisition playbook. EOG’s CEO called the deal a “home run” on the August 5th earnings call, and the numbers back him up — well costs down 20% from where Encino left them, drilling and completion speeds up double digits, and activity levels more than tripled versus pre-acquisition rates. Company-wide, EOG posted $2.7 billion in adjusted net income ($5.07/share), $2.8 billion of free cash flow, and record oil volumes of 548.8 MBod. Full detail below, with the Utica numbers front and center. Read More “EOG’s Utica Program Hits Its Stride in Record 2Q26”

  • Energy Companies | EOG Resources | Industrywide Issues | Litigation | Noble County | Ohio

    Case Closed: EOG Settles w/ Ohio Landowner Who Stopped Its Wells

    August 6, 2026August 6, 2026

    EOG Resources has settled — and apparently bought out — the Noble County, Ohio landowner who beat it at the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals last year in a fight over whether a driller can use one owner’s surface to drill horizontally into the neighbors’ minerals. The case, EOG Resources, Inc. v. Lucky Land Management, LLC, produced a published appellate ruling that’s now a go-to precedent on surface rights for horizontal (lateral) drilling anywhere severed mineral estates exist — which describes most of the Marcellus/Utica. MDN first flagged this case a year ago when we caught the 6th Circuit’s reversal (see below) but couldn’t pin down the county or the full backstory (see 6th Circuit Reverses Lower Court, Blocks EOG from Surface Drilling). We now have it, and it’s a heck of a story. Read More “Case Closed: EOG Settles w/ Ohio Landowner Who Stopped Its Wells”

  • Crime | Energy Services | Eureka Resources | Industrywide Issues | Litigation | Lycoming County | Pennsylvania

    AG Sunday Hits Eureka with 16 More Crimes for Williamsport Spill

    August 6, 2026August 6, 2026

    Two months ago, we told you PA Attorney General Dave Sunday had charged Eureka Resources with seven crimes over years of leaking tanks at its Standing Stone plant in Bradford County (see Eureka Resources Charged with 7 Crimes for PA Wastewater Leaks). That was the appetizer. Sunday has now filed a second, separate criminal case against the defunct wastewater company — this one aimed squarely at the Aug. 17, 2025 spill that sent 16,000 gallons of oily frack waste out of the Williamsport Second Street plant and into the West Branch of the Susquehanna River. Sixteen counts this time. And for the first time, Eureka is charged under laws that protect water, not just laws that govern waste. Read More “AG Sunday Hits Eureka with 16 More Crimes for Williamsport Spill”

  • AI | Electrical Generation | Indiana County | Industrywide Issues | Pennsylvania

    Amazon in Talks to Land Data Centers at Homer City Gas Plant

    August 6, 2026August 6, 2026

    Amazon Web Services (AWS) is now in talks to build a data center campus next to the Homer City Energy Campus in Indiana County, PA — meaning the company that already pledged $20 billion for data centers in eastern PA (see our prior coverage here) may now be circling the massive Marcellus-fed gas plant project we’ve covered extensively in western PA. The news broke via TribLive, which obtained emails through a Right-to-Know (freedom of information) request showing Amazon has been talking with Homer City Redevelopment (HCR), the company converting the old Homer City coal plant site into a 3,200-acre, 4.5-gigawatt (GW) natural gas-fired power plant and data center campus (see our story, Largest Gas-Fired Power Plant in the U.S. Coming in Western Pa.). Amazon confirmed the talks in a statement but stressed no deal is signed. No word yet on how big a footprint Amazon might want, or how much gas-fired power it would draw. We’ll keep digging. Read More “Amazon in Talks to Land Data Centers at Homer City Gas Plant”

  • AI | Industrywide Issues | Pennsylvania | Public Opinion | Statewide PA

    New Poll: 74% of PA Voters Say “Not in My Backyard” to Data Centers

    August 6, 2026August 6, 2026

    Quinnipiac University released a new poll of Pennsylvania registered voters on July 15, and one question in it should worry everyone who makes a living from Marcellus gas. Asked whether they would support or oppose building an AI data center in their community, 74% of Pennsylvania voters said “oppose,” 16% said “support,” and 10% offered no opinion. That’s a jump from Quinnipiac’s February 25 poll, when the split was 68% opposed and 20% in favor. The opposition is bipartisan — 64% of Republicans, 82% of Democrats, and 77% of independents all said no thanks. Three-quarters of voters (76%) say they’re following data center news either very closely (26%) or somewhat closely (50%). And Gov. Josh Shapiro isn’t getting credit either: just 24% approve of how he’s handling data centers in Pennsylvania, while 34% disapprove and a whopping 42% have no opinion. The survey polled 895 registered voters July 9-13, with a margin of error of +/- 4.3 percentage points. Read More “New Poll: 74% of PA Voters Say “Not in My Backyard” to Data Centers”

  • Best of the Rest

    MDN’s Energy Stories of Interest: Thu, Aug 6, 2026

    August 6, 2026August 6, 2026

    MARCELLUS/UTICA REGION: Prime Data Centers proposes seven-building complex at Starpointe Business Park; OTHER U.S. REGIONS: N.J. looks to “virtual power plants” as another solution to demand spike; NATIONAL: U.S. natural gas futures hold steady ahead of storage data; Wright says fuel shipping waiver extension ‘quite likely’; This law is killing US jobs AND harming national security; Why natural gas isn’t going anywhere in the US power system; The ‘conservatives’ being paid to sell you wind and solar; Climate crusaders turn to flimsy ‘extreme event attribution’ to bring down oil, gas, and coal; INTERNATIONAL: Oil extends losses on Hormuz talks; Dozens of idling Iranian tankers show USA blockade is working; Aramco sees long road ahead to restore energy supply chains after Iran war; BP to sell US RNG unit as it moves focus to oil and gas; Hormuz draft agreement reportedly awaits Khamenei approval. Read More “MDN’s Energy Stories of Interest: Thu, Aug 6, 2026”

  • Belmont County | Energy Companies | Gulfport Energy | Monroe County | Ohio

    Dell’Osso’s First Quarter at Gulfport: Buy More Utica, Rethink Okla.

    August 5, 2026August 5, 2026

    Gulfport Energy dropped its second quarter 2026 numbers on Monday (Aug. 3), followed by an analyst call Tuesday morning — the first for new President and CEO Nick Dell’Osso, who took the chair May 28 after running Chesapeake/Expand Energy for five years. The profit line went the wrong direction. But strip away the accountants’ noise, and there’s a genuinely good story here for Ohio landowners, for the service companies that turn dirt, and for anyone holding the stock. Read More “Dell’Osso’s First Quarter at Gulfport: Buy More Utica, Rethink Okla.”

  • Energy Services | Industrywide Issues | Pipelines | Transco | Williams

    Williams’ M-U Assets Generate 25% of Earnings, Get 3% of Capex

    August 5, 2026August 5, 2026

    Williams dropped its second quarter 2026 results after the close on Monday, August 3, and held the analyst call Tuesday morning. The headline numbers are good: adjusted EBITDA of $1.921 billion (up 6%), GAAP net income of $827 million (up 51%), and a raised full-year guidance midpoint of $8.4 billion. Wall Street liked it. But the story for MDN readers isn’t in the headline. It’s buried in the volume tables on page 8 of the release, in a capital spending line nobody read out loud, and in two new Transco projects in Pennsylvania and New Jersey that got about eleven seconds of airtime on the call. Read More “Williams’ M-U Assets Generate 25% of Earnings, Get 3% of Capex”

  • Coterra Energy (Cabot O&G) | Devon Energy | Energy Companies | EQT Corp | Lease & Royalty Payments | Pennsylvania | Range Resources Corp | Statewide PA | Statewide WV | Susquehanna County | West Virginia

    Peregrine Scoops Up Susquehanna Cnty Royalties, More PA/WV Minerals

    August 5, 2026August 5, 2026

    Peregrine Energy Partners, the Dallas-based royalty buyer we’ve been tracking since 2019, is back in the Marcellus/Utica with its checkbook open. Yesterday (Aug. 4), the company announced it closed five separate mineral and royalty deals — two of them right here in the M-U — totaling roughly 3,680 net royalty acres and interests in more than 1,240 producing wells. The first Appalachian deal is a cash-flowing overriding royalty portfolio in Susquehanna County, PA, covering about 936 gross acres and 86 producing horizontal Coterra Energy (now Devon Energy) wells, with more than 50 DUCs and PUDs behind them in both the Upper and Lower Marcellus. Read More “Peregrine Scoops Up Susquehanna Cnty Royalties, More PA/WV Minerals”

  • Bradford County | Energy Services | Eureka Resources | Industrywide Issues | Lycoming County | Pennsylvania | Wastewater

    New Owners for Eureka’s 3 PA Wastewater Plants; Waste Still On Site

    August 5, 2026August 5, 2026

    The long, sad saga of Eureka Resources has a new chapter — and for once, it’s not another fine or another leak. Eureka has sold the business operations at all three of its shuttered Pennsylvania frack wastewater treatment plants. Two of the three went to Select Water Solutions, one of the biggest water-management companies in the oilfield. The third went to a Washington County trucking outfit. We didn’t hear this from Eureka. We heard it from the Middle Susquehanna Riverkeeper Association, which pried the details out of the PA Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) in advance of the one-year anniversary of the Aug. 17, 2025 spill that dumped 16,000 gallons of untreated wastewater into the West Branch of the Susquehanna River (see ‘Black Goop’ Spills into Susquehanna River from Closed Eureka Plant). Read More “New Owners for Eureka’s 3 PA Wastewater Plants; Waste Still On Site”

  • Electrical Generation | Industrywide Issues | Monongalia County | West Virginia

    Back from the Dead: Mon County, WV Gas Plant Project Sold to AEP

    August 5, 2026August 5, 2026

    Back in January 2022, we brought you what looked like a milestone: the WV Dept. of Environmental Protection had issued a construction permit for a big Marcellus gas-fired power plant next door to the Longview coal plant in Maidsville, Monongalia County (see WV DEP Approves Construction Permit for Gas-Fired Elec Plant). We said it would finally be the first large-scale gas plant built in the Mountain State during the shale era. We were wrong. Not one shovel of dirt got turned. Read More “Back from the Dead: Mon County, WV Gas Plant Project Sold to AEP”

  • Electrical Generation | Industrywide Issues | Pipelines

    TVA Fires Up 1,450 MW Cumberland Plant, Locks In Nearly 1 Tcf of Gas

    August 5, 2026August 5, 2026

    The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) posted its third-quarter fiscal 2026 results yesterday (Aug. 4) — a press release, an investor presentation, and a 10-Q filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The headline numbers are fine but boring: $10 billion in revenue over nine months, net income of $965 million, up $220 million from last year. Yawn. However, if you dig into the 10-Q, there’s real news for Marcellus/Utica producers. TVA’s giant new Cumberland gas plant has fired up for the first time. TVA borrowed $2 billion to pay for it — the largest such financing in the agency’s history. And TVA has quietly expanded its natural gas hedge book to nearly 1 trillion cubic feet. Let’s dig in. Read More “TVA Fires Up 1,450 MW Cumberland Plant, Locks In Nearly 1 Tcf of Gas”

  • Best of the Rest

    MDN’s Energy Stories of Interest: Wed, Aug 5, 2026

    August 5, 2026August 5, 2026

    OTHER U.S. REGIONS: Coastal Bend LNG initiates formal permitting and consultation process; The saga of Enbridge Line 5 continues; NATIONAL: U.S. natural gas futures fall on cooler weather outlook; Gravity acquired by Firefly Capital to support growing demand for power infrastructure; Trump blasts Exxon, Chevron for making ‘too much money,’ demands lower gasoline prices; INTERNATIONAL: Brent settles at three-week low. Read More “MDN’s Energy Stories of Interest: Wed, Aug 5, 2026”

  • AI | Antero Midstream | Antero Resources | Electrical Generation | Energy Companies | Energy Services | Industrywide Issues | Litigation | Ohio

    Veolia Lands 350 MW OH Microgrid 6 Days After Paying Antero $371M

    August 4, 2026August 4, 2026

    On July 30, French environmental services giant Veolia announced it had been picked by “a major project developer” to operate and maintain a 350-megawatt (MW) microgrid that will power an artificial intelligence data center campus in Ohio. The press release carried a New Albany, Ohio dateline. It’s a genuinely big deal — a behind-the-meter power plant that will supply 100% of a data center campus without leaning on the grid at all. Here’s the dots nobody else has connected. This is the same Veolia that Antero Resources and Antero Midstream spent six years suing over a botched frack wastewater plant in West Virginia. And Veolia announced this shiny new Ohio contract exactly six days after wiring Antero a check for $371 million. You can’t make this stuff up. Read More “Veolia Lands 350 MW OH Microgrid 6 Days After Paying Antero $371M”

  • Energy Companies | EOG Resources | Harrison County | Ohio | Pin Oak Energy Partners

    OH Landowner Accuses EOG of “Theft” — Real Story is Lease Assignment

    August 4, 2026August 4, 2026

    A Harrison County landowner and longtime pro-drilling voice is now accusing EOG Resources of “theft” — and while the word grabs headlines, the underlying dispute is a lot more nuanced than one company stealing one man’s mineral rights. A recent report from Your Ohio News lays out landowner Ron Ott’s grievances against EOG, but bundles together at least four separate issues into one story. We think MDN readers deserve the untangled version. Read More “OH Landowner Accuses EOG of “Theft” — Real Story is Lease Assignment”

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