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  • Energy Services | Equitrans/EQT Midstream | Industrywide Issues | Pipelines | Regulation | Statewide VA | Statewide WV | Virginia | West Virginia

    Army Corps Further Delays MVP, Grants More Review Time to VA, WV

    June 29, 2021June 29, 2021

    On June 3 we published a post posing the question of whether or not the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers would delay the already-years-delayed Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP) for yet another year (see Will Army Corps Delay the 92% Complete MVP Another Year?). We now have the sad answer: Yes.
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  • Commodity Price | Industrywide Issues

    NatGas Spot Prices Soar Even More than HH on Heat, Shortages

    June 29, 2021June 29, 2021

    The price of natural gas for the NYMEX futures contract (July) based on the price at the benchmark Henry Hub, hit a new, 30-month high yesterday closing at $3.62/MMBtu. But that’s not even the biggest news. The spot price of natural gas at multiple locations across the country (including the Marcellus/Utica) is cooking, largely due to the hot temps in both the Pacific Northwest and the East Coast. The cash price at Algonquin city-gates (Boston area) rose about $1 to trade at $4.87/MMBtu, while Transco Zone 6 NY (New York City area) was up 79 cents at $3.93/MMBtu. Cove Point LNG (exports 100% Marcellus molecules) cash prices climbed 66.5 cents to $3.845.
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  • Anti-Drilling/Fossil Fuel | Industrywide Issues | Pipelines | Regulation

    FERC’s War on 4 Marcellus/Utica Pipe Projects Isn’t Going So Well

    June 29, 2021June 29, 2021

    Earlier this month MDN told you that the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), under the direction of Chairman Richard “Dick” Glick, had hit the pause button on finishing up final approvals so the agency can take the next six months to complete full environmental impact statements (EIS’s), gauging whether or not five pipeline projects will cause too much mythical, man-made global warming (see FERC Just Declared War on 4 Marcellus/Utica Pipe Projects). Four of the five pipelines are either located in the Marcellus/Utica, or they are located elsewhere but will flow significant amounts of M-U gas. The draft EIS’s for three of the five are now in and all of them come to the same conclusion…
    Read More “FERC’s War on 4 Marcellus/Utica Pipe Projects Isn’t Going So Well”

  • Anti-Drilling/Fossil Fuel | Electrical Generation | Industrywide Issues | Pennsylvania | Regulation | Statewide PA

    Climate Crazies in PA Openly Admit RGGI Carbon Tax is Regressive

    June 29, 2021June 29, 2021

    Politicians derive their power from touching *your* money. They love to take money out of one of your pockets, handle it (siphon some of it off for themselves and their favorite cronies), and then put some (not all) of it back into another of your pockets–all while telling you that you should enjoy the violation you’ve just received. This is the elaborate hoax Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf and those who want to slap an insane, regressive carbon tax on all Pennsylvanians are attempting with the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI)–a carbon tax aimed at eliminating coal-fired power plants and vastly reducing the number of Marcellus-fired power plants.
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  • Industrywide Issues | Research

    EIA Notices the Curious Case of Disappearing DUCs in U.S. Shale

    June 29, 2021June 29, 2021

    For the past year or more DUCs (drilled but uncompleted wells) have been disappearing from the country’s seven largest shale plays. Wells are drilled and completed in two broad phases. First, a borehole is drilled for an oil or gas well. In the case of shale wells, that includes drilling down (vertically) and then out (horizontally). After the initial hole is drilled, the well may be capped until a later date when the second phase begins of fracking and completing the well. Wells initially drilled but not completed are called DUCs. EIA has noticed the trend that DUC numbers are decreasing.
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  • Industrywide Issues | Pipelines | Regulation

    White House Likes Massachusetts Radical to Fill FERC Seat

    June 29, 2021June 29, 2021
    Maria D. Robinson (in blue)

    What a disaster, with respect to regulating oil and gas, the Biden administration continues to be. Word is leaking around Washington, D.C. that the administration has vetted and likes Maria Duaime Robinson, a leftist Democrat Massachusetts state representative, to replace Federal Energy Regulatory Commissioner Neil Chatterjee (RINO). So-called renewables companies are salivating at the prospect of having one of their own putting the screws to the oil and gas industry.
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  • Best of the Rest

    Other Stories of Interest: Tue, Jun 29, 2021

    June 29, 2021June 29, 2021

    MARCELLUS/UTICA REGION: Naming names: FirstEnergy says it gave $20M to a dark money group; NATIONAL: USA oil refiners score Supreme Court victory; Thwarted Trump oil buy would have given Biden $6B; The case for a longer-term oil and gas bull market; Democrats in oil country worried by party’s natural-gas agenda; Supercritical CO2 for long-haul piping and enhanced oil recovery; Larger solar power plants increase local temperatures; INTERNATIONAL: BP looking to hydrogen expansion to ‘reinvent’ natural gas.
    Read More “Other Stories of Interest: Tue, Jun 29, 2021”

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