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PA DEP at Fault for Marsh Creek Lake Drilling Mud Spill
It could have been avoided. The Pennsylvania Dept. of Environmental Protection (DEP) has no one to blame but themselves for what happened at Marsh Creek Lake in Chester County, PA, when Energy Transfer (ET), drilling underground to install a pipeline for the Mariner East 2 project, experienced a drilling mud spill in August (see Mariner East 2X Construction Causes Another Drilling Mud Spill).
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Two months ago PTT Global Chemical signed a contract with the Mountaineer NGL Storage project to use Mountaineer’s planned underground storage facility in Monroe County, OH to supply ethane to PTT’s cracker plant in neighboring Belmont County when/if the cracker gets built (see 
Here’s a story we haven’t written about in two years. American Water Management Services (AWMS) owns a wastewater injection well in Trumbull County that supposedly caused a low-level earthquake (that nobody could feel) in 2014. Actually there are two injection wells located at the site, both operated by AWMS. They were both “temporarily” shut down by the Ohio Dept. of Natural Resources following the quake nobody could feel (see 
In the first half of 2020, the U.S. exported 5.4 million barrels per day (bpd) of petroleum products, a slight increase of 48,000 bpd (1%) from the first half of 2019. Wait, what? Exports went UP and not down? Even though the entire world shut down and used far less fossil fuels during 1H? That’s right. The reason we exported slightly more petroleum products is because NGLs (natural gas liquids) are part of those numbers, and the world kept using NGLs, like propane and ethane, even during the COVID shutdown.
MARCELLUS/UTICA REGION: CNX Resources and CNX Midstream Partners announce completion of merger; Energy and Policy Institute a case of projection on steroids; Encino Energy partners with wildlife education center; OTHER U.S. REGIONS: Kayakers paddle to Murphy’s backyard to protest gas pipeline, fossil fuel projects; NATIONAL: Devon Energy and WPX Energy to combine in merger of equals; U.S. ethane exports rise with international steam cracker demand; INTERNATIONAL: Wood Mackenzie: LNG demand doubling over the next 20 years.