Score another victory for the forces of evil, by which we mean leftwing, wackadoodle anti-fossil fuel extremists. Just a short time ago MDN received the statement below from PennEast Pipeline that states, in our words, they’ve given up. Throwing in the towel. Dead. PennEast will not get built. You can’t say we didn’t warn you this may happen.
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A conventional oil and gas driller in northwestern Pennsylvania, Cameron Energy, will be featured on a one-hour show called How America Works, running on the Fox Business Network, tonight at 8 p.m. A film crew visited the Warren County company in April to capture Cameron workers doing their thing–“warts and all.” Cameron vice president and head of operations, John Stewart, says, “The end product is satisfyingly real.” Finally, an honest look at not only the great job done by the PA oil and gas industry, but a show that touts the benefits of fossil fuels.
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Spoiled rotten kids who never receive an occasional spank spank when they throw a temper tantrum while growing up, grow up to be spoiled rotten young adults. That’s what we’re seeing at the overpriced Ohio State University (OSU) where a group of petulant students is demanding the university stop construction work on a combined heat and power plant (CHP) project in the next 72 hours, or else…
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The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA), our favorite government agency, is out with another prediction about natural gas. Based on EIA’s September Short-Term Energy Outlook (STEO), the agency predicts natural gas consumption in the industrial sector will rise throughout 2021 and exceed pre-pandemic 2019 levels. EIA predicts growth in the use by industrial companies will continue into 2022, and natural gas delivered to this sector will average 23.8 billion cubic feet per day (Bcf/d) in 2022. If that happens, it will tie or exceed the all-time high use of natural gas by industrials, which happened in the 1970s.
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Thanks to a sharp MDN reader/friend, we were alerted to a rather bizarre situation with the current issue of the Youngstown Business Journal. Once upon a time, the YBJ wrote encouraging (and accurate) stories about the Utica Shale industry and its many benefits in the Buckeye State. Lately, the YBJ has been taking potshots at the Utica, claiming it hasn’t panned out as advertised. Take the latest MidSeptember edition where two articles appear. One article boldly states that after 10 years there is “No Gusher of Jobs” in the Utica. Yet another article contradicts the first and states, “It’s Construction Jobs in Gas and Oil.” Bizarre.
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LNG, or liquefied natural gas, is increasingly a vital market for natural gas drillers, both in the Marcellus/Utica and in other plays across the country. In the M-U we have two LNG export facilities–Cove Point, Maryland (currently down for maintenance) and Elba Island, Georgia. Most of the other LNG facilities are located along the Gulf Coast, with the largest LNG export facility operated by Cheniere Energy in Sabine Pass, Louisiana. Cheniere received permission on Friday to begin flowing feedgas to Train 6 at Sabine Pass. Train 6 will likely be online by the end of this year.
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Ohio’s House Bill (HB) 6 law granted billions (plural) of dollars to FirstEnergy in an attempt to prop up the company’s economically failing nuclear power plants. FirstEnergy bribed state legislators to pass, and keep passed, HB 6 by paying out $61 million to a small group of insiders, including the now-former Speaker of the House (see FirstEnergy Involved in Bribery Scheme to Pass $1B Nuke Bailout Law). It is the biggest bribery scandal in Ohio history. HB 6 also provides hundreds of millions of dollars to keep two unprofitable Cold War-era coal plants up and running.
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