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Contract Worker Injured at Cabot Well Pad in Northeast PA Dies
April 15, 2021April 15, 2021

We hate reporting these kinds of stories because of the pain and suffering experienced by the family involved, but report it we must. A contract worker (46-year-old man) who was working at a Cabot Oil & Gas well pad off Hoag Hill Road in Rush Twp. (Susquehanna County, PA) around midnight Tuesday was injured at the pad and rushed to the hospital in Montrose, PA. He later died at the hospital.
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Energy Companies | EQT Corp | ESG | Greene County (PA) | Industrywide Issues | Pennsylvania | Washington County

EQT Goes All-in with NatGas Certification – Using Combo of Standards
April 15, 2021April 15, 2021

Just yesterday MDN told you that Chesapeake Energy had enrolled in the same program EQT Corporation previously enrolled in to certify its natural gas as “responsibly sourced” (see Chesapeake Signs Up with “Responsibly Sourced Gas” Program). A day later EQT announced it will use a different program, actually two new and different programs, to certify the bulk of its natural gas production.
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Industrywide Issues | Regulation | Statewide WV | West Virginia

Summary of WV Bills Passed and Defeated Related to Oil & Gas
April 15, 2021April 15, 2021

This year’s 60-day session of the West Virginia legislature, which ended at the stroke of midnight on Sunday, saw a flurry of oil and gas-related bills. Perhaps the most important such bill for the industry, to expand forced pooling, failed (see West Virginia Forced Pooling Bill is Dead for Another Year). However, another important bill, one that changes how oil and gas wells are valued for property taxes, passed after getting a major makeover (see WV Passes Bill to Change O&G Well Valuations for Taxes). There were other bills related to O&G, some of which passed, others that did not.
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Enbridge | Energy Services | Industrywide Issues | Pipelines | Regulation | Spectra Energy

FERC’s Glick Confirms He’s Willing to Shut Down Active Pipelines
April 15, 2021April 15, 2021

Richard “I’ll do what I want to do” Glick

What do you do with someone (actually an entire political party) willing to overturn the legal and binding decisions made in a previous administration? They simply wave their magic leftist wand and undo a project, like a legally permitted compressor station that’s already built and running. Just shut it down. It’s Third World stuff. Yet that’s precisely what Richard “Dick” Glick, Chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), says he’s willing to do, justifying his actions by saying he’s somehow “protecting the public.” This is what we warned you would happen in a Joe Biden administration–and now it is.
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ESG | Industrywide Issues

How, Exactly, Do Oil & Gas Companies Define ESG?
April 15, 2021April 15, 2021

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The short answer to the question posed in our headline is this: There is no one definition for environmental, social, and governance (ESG) programs in the oil and gas sector. Everyone is making up their own definition as they go. Yesterday we told you how CNX is defining ESG, in very specific, measurable terms (see CNX Investing $30M in Underprivileged Communities in Tri-state Area). Also yesterday, we told you about Chesapeake Energy signing up for the same certification program EQT previously signed up for, called Project Canary, to prove their ESG crediblity (see Chesapeake Signs Up with “Responsibly Sourced Gas” Program). Today, in another post, we tell you about EQT expanding beyond Project Canary, enrolling in two more certification programs.
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CNG/LNG | Industrywide Issues

Why is Shipping – Important Market for NatGas – Slow to Use LNG?
April 15, 2021April 15, 2021

As an article in Offshore Energy says, “LNG as a fuel should be a no-brainer” for the shipping industry. LNG used for marine applications (powering ships) is an important and expanding market for natural gas, including Marcellus/Utica gas. However, the adoption of LNG in the newbuilding sector “seems to be rather slow.” Why is that?
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Other Stories of Interest: Thu, Apr 15, 2021
April 15, 2021April 15, 2021

NATIONAL: Pioneer’s CEO warns of OPEC+ price war if U.S. production surges; In the climate change fight, the Interior Department becomes a battlefield; Climate media vs. climate science; CNN staffer boasts to Project Veritas that network peddled anti-Trump ‘propaganda’; Bipartisan Senate bill would direct billions to plugging wells.
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