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FERC OKs Small Portion of Leidy South Pipe Work in Central PA
On Friday the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) granted its approval to Williams to begin construction on the Leidy South Project in central Pennsylvania. The purpose of the Leidy South Project, which is part of the mighty Transco pipeline, is to connect robust supplies of natural gas in the Marcellus and Utica producing regions in Pennsylvania with markets along the Atlantic Seaboard by the 2021-2022 winter heating season.
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Who are the top shale drillers in Pennsylvania, as ranked by the number of shale gas wells drilled in total, to date, from the beginning of the shale play when Range Resources drilled the very first Marcellus well in 2004? It won’t surprise you to learn that Range itself is in the top 5. It’s also no surprise that EQT is at the very top of the list, given it is the #1 natural gas producing company in the U.S. We have full details on the top 5 Marcellus/Utica drillers in PA, along with a list of the other 37 PA shale drillers (42 drillers in all).
In 2016 a group of business and government leaders from Ohio and West Virginia in the Mid-Ohio Valley banded together to form an economic development group called Shale Crescent USA, or SCUSA (see 
Last week MDN brought you Part 1 of a series on the coming crisis in lack of pipeline capacity serving the Marcellus/Utica region (see 
On Friday MDN told you that EQT has partnered with a company called Project Canary (used to be Independent Energy Standards Corporation) to use the TrustWell™ Responsible Gas Program to monitor two EQT gas wells to prove to the world (in particular the global warming lunatics) that EQT’s gas is good and green (see 
Forget about the great American road trip. You won’t be able to charge your electric vehicle quickly enough or (in some cases) at all. Prepare to have your views of the countryside ruined by solar panels and windmills on just about every available hill, mountain, and ridgeline. Oh yeah, and get used to being a vegetarian too, because cows and pigs and chickens burp and fart too much methane and all that animal methane is toasting mom earth. You may think we’re joking, just poking fun at environmentalist wackos. Just read the AP article below and give us your interpretation of what those who now occupy D.C. have planned for YOU–citizens of the US of A.
MARCELLUS/UTICA REGION: W.Va.’s Manchin: Market will settle debate over fossil fuels, climate change, renewable energy; De Blasio moves to ban natural gas hookups: ‘Literally’ our ‘only choice is renewable energy’; NATIONAL: U.S. shale ponders the unexpected: what to do with coming cash windfall?; Joe Biden goes to war with oil, and will lose; Lawsuit argues Biden’s executive order conflicts with existing laws; Tribes exempt from pause in U.S. federal drilling program; Mineral and royalty valuations remain low amid recent oil price gains; Biden revokes oil drilling permits for additional review; INTERNATIONAL: EIA estimates that global petroleum liquids consumption dropped 9% in 2020; Fossil fuel transition: Expect oil price spikes as capital investment declines; China CO2 Pledge (video).