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Dominion Compressor Leak in PA Contaminates Local Water Supply
The Public Herald, an “independent” news organization, is reporting a leak of ethylene glycol (antifreeze) used as a coolant in Dominion Energy’s Stateline Compressor Station in Genesee (Potter County), PA has contaminated the water supplies for several nearby neighbors. The leak led to a small fish kill in a nearby pond. Dominion is aggressively investigating the situation, along with the Pennsylvania Dept. of Environmental Protection (DEP).
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TC Energy’s Columbia Gas Transmission subsidiary has not given up on building a 3.37-mile, 8-inch pipeline under the Potomac River. The pipeline, from Maryland on one side of the river to West Virginia on the other side, will be built to feed a larger pipeline project from Mountaineer Gas called the Eastern Panhandle Expansion. The crazy anti-fossil fuel loons who run Maryland are trying to block the project. Columbia is asking the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) for more time to get it built because of Maryland’s interference.
The devious minds at THE Delaware Riverkeeper are working in overdrive. In an apparent concession that their lawsuits to try and stop the New Fortress Energy LNG liquefaction facility from getting built in Wyalusing (in northeastern PA) by stopping the construction of a new dock New Fortress wants to build on the Delaware River, Riverkeeper is changing strategies. If they can’t stop the facility and they can’t stop construction of the loading dock (in Gibbstown, NJ), Riverkeeper hopes to convince towns between Wyalusing and Gibbstown to pass zoning ordinances forbidding the transport, via truck or rail car, of LNG through their communities.
Yesterday Halliburton was the first of the big three oilfield services companies (Baker Hughes and Schlumberger being the other two) to release second-quarter numbers. While on paper the company lost $1.7 billion due to an impairment charge, Halliburton actually made $456 million in free cash flow–after axing workers and cutting dividend payments. But the big news (for us) from yesterday’s 2Q update was a comment by Halliburton CEO Jeff Miller that the company will look to markets outside the U.S. to grow in the future.
Last year Chevron tried to buy Permian driller Anadarko Petroleum for $50 billion. Occidental Petroleum swooped in at the last minute and lured Anadarko away in a $57 billion deal. Chevron left the marriage altar with a cool $1 billion in breakup fees (see 
We’ve read a lot of stories in mainstream media about the cancelation of the Atlantic Coast Pipeline (ACP) by Dominion Energy announced earlier this month (see 
MARCELLUS/UTICA REGION: Wooing petrochemical plants in the age of COVID-19; Atlantic Coast Pipeline capacity hinders Cabot’s growth potential; OTHER U.S. REGIONS: California regulators reiterate support for gas phase out; Permian well shut-ins wind down, but natural declines extend oil, gas downturn; NATIONAL: Lawsuits seek transparency on coordination between state AG offices and outside organizations; EIA forecasts U.S. petroleum demand will remain below 2019 levels for several more months; URTeC 2020: Opening session speakers see industry recovering, but ESG issues loom large; Future-proofing gas generation for the coming carbon-free world; Nat gas prices crash as U.S. exports fall; INTERNATIONAL: New US sanctions block Putin’s pipeline despite Danish breakthrough; Russia and Saudi Arabia are rooting for Biden…Here’s why.