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Olympus Energy Seeks Approval for Compressor Station in SWPA
Olympus Energy (formerly Huntley & Huntley) is expanding its drilling program in Upper Burrell, in Westmoreland County, PA, near Pittsburgh (see Olympus Energy’s 3rd Upper Burrell Well Pad Wins Unanimous Approval). Along with all the new wells the company is drilling comes the need for pipelines to flow the gas, and along with the pipelines comes a need for a compressor station. Olympus has filed for permission to build a new compressor station.
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A reporter with the New Philadelphia (OH) Times Reporter recently chatted with both Mike Chadsey, director of public relations for the Ohio Oil and Gas Association (OOGA), and with MDN friend Jackie Stewart, director of external affairs for Encino Energy. The topic? What’s happening right now in the Ohio Utica Shale, and what do they see coming in the near future for shale energy in the Buckeye State. We’d sum it up by saying the industry is cautiously optimistic.
West Virginia, the state legislature in particular, is up to its collective neck in a mess of its own making. The legislature passed House Bill (HB) 2581 on the last day of the annual WV legislative session in April. HB 2581 changes how the State Tax Department values producing oil and gas wells for property tax purposes (see 
Tennessee Gas Pipeline’s (TGP) plan to flow more Marcellus gas to Westchester and New York City is called the East 300 Upgrade Project. The project involves upgrades at two existing compressor stations (in Pennsylvania), along with building a brand new compressor station in West Milford (Passaic County), just across the border and not far from Westchester County, NY. For a second time this year, Passaic County commissioners have refused to vote in favor of a resolution opposing the project.
Something strange is happening–has been happening for years now. When we first started to cover the Marcellus/Utica on the MDN site in January 2009, the received wisdom was “the more active rigs, the more production,” and conversely, “fewer active rigs will lead to less production.” But a funny thing happened on the way to the forum. Drillers got better at drilling. More efficient. And more production could be had from fewer wells and less drilling of wells. Even though rig counts go down and stay down, production stays the same or goes up. That’s the situation we find ourselves in currently.
Leftists are not only anti-fossil fuels and anti-freedom, they’re also (when they eventually don’t convince others with their inane arguments) violent. Case in point: David Suzuki, the so-called godfather of the Canadian environmental movement, warned over the weekend that if politicians don’t act to reverse climate change, there could be attacks against oil and gas infrastructure. He flat-out threatened to blow up pipelines. Why is this man not in jail?
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