Energy Companies | Industrywide Issues | Olympus/Huntley & Huntley | Pennsylvania | Regulation | Westmoreland County
Olympus Energy Plan for 2nd Well Pad in Upper Burrell Advances
Olympus Energy, the renamed Huntley & Huntley Energy Exploration (HHEX), continues to make progress in Upper Burrell Township in Westmoreland County, PA. The company currently has one well pad (Zeus) with multiple wells drilled in Upper Burrell. More than a year ago, in February 2020, Olympus announced plans to drill two more pads in Upper Burrell (see Olympus Energy (former H&H) Plans 2 New Wells in Upper Burrell). Those plans have progressed.
Read More “Olympus Energy Plan for 2nd Well Pad in Upper Burrell Advances”
All the wheels have officially come off the cart for a proposed $346 million pipeline project in northeastern Virginia called the Header Improvement Project. Virginia Natural Gas (VNG) filed a plan last December to build the Header Improvement Project, 24 miles of new pipeline and two new compressor stations (expanding a third compressor) connecting to the mighty Transco pipeline system to flow Marcellus/Utica gas to the northeast Virginia region (see 
In February West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice announced a plan to eliminate the state’s personal income tax. Who wouldn’t love that idea? But in order to replace the $2.1 billion received annually from the personal income tax, Justice would raise other taxes, including a tiered system that potentially raises the state’s oil and gas severance tax (see 
In February we told you about a group of radicalized anti-fossil fuelers who raised a stink with the Pennsylvania Dept. of Environmental Protection (DEP) over the DEP’s routine, nothing-to-see-here renewal of permits for already-running (with no operational problems) shale wastewater recycling facilities scattered around the state (see 
Democrats in Congress continue a vendetta against the fossil fuel (and shale) industry. Their latest attack? House of Representatives (HR) Bill 1512, the Climate Leadership and Environmental Action for our Nation’s Future Act (or CLEAN Future) Act. The bill gives vast powers to the unelected bureaucrats at the EPA to set new regulatory demands before permits can be approved for facilities that produce plastics or the raw materials used to produce plastics, such as ethylene or propylene. A better name would be BANCP (Block All New Cracker Plants) Act.
Two radical left Democrat FERC commissioners and one backstabbing RINO FERC commissioner voted last week to approve an 87-mile natural gas pipeline project in South Dakota and Nebraska. So a natural gas pipeline was approved by two Dems and a RINO (this is not a joke setup). The approval is a good thing, right? No, it’s not. The criteria they used in approving the project establishes a new precedent, new guidelines, that will be used for all pipeline projects going forward. The precedent is to consider how much man-made global warming a new pipeline will generate, which is (of course) nonsensical and can’t actually be measured. In other words, these three will now use made-up, pretend nonsense numbers of their own choosing to decide whether or not to approve any and all pipeline projects moving forward.
MARCELLUS/UTICA REGION: Folsom Engineering makes history with gas industry support; Why a federal order in the Weymouth compressor case has the natural gas world worried; Environmental justice groups offer vision to shut New York City peakers; OTHER U.S. REGIONS: From Big Green to Al Gore: misguided opposition to the Byhalia Connection increases; Ethylene shortages from plants crippled by deep freeze roil petchem markets; NATIONAL: The shale party is just getting started; Nonprofits press Biden team to exclude natural gas projects from global public financing; Climate change and cancel culture – here’s how left uses fear to push costly, radical policies; New report details shifting moods about the energy transition; The IEA sees peak oil demand! Yawn; America’s most underrated energy reality: low and lower cost natural gas; INTERNATIONAL: Aramco likely to partner with China on blue hydrogen, CEO says.