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  • CNG/LNG | Commodity Price | Exporting | Industrywide Issues

    NYMEX Down $1.20 in 3 Days – LNG Exports Do NOT Cause High Prices

    December 2, 2021December 2, 2021

    The NYMEX “front month” futures contract for natural gas traded on the Henry Hub benchmark has crashed over the past three days, down more than 90 cents, closing at $4.26/MMBtu yesterday. Why? Because weather models predict relatively warm weather in the weeks ahead. Weather trumps all other factors in the price of natural gas. Which exposes the intentional lie (or stupidity, take your pick) of people like U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren who are spreading the false narrative that LNG exports are the cause of high natural gas prices here at home (see M-U Industry Responds to Sen. Warren re LNG Exports & Prices).
    Read More “NYMEX Down $1.20 in 3 Days – LNG Exports Do NOT Cause High Prices”

  • Energy Companies | Industrywide Issues | Questerre Energy | Regulation | Utica Resources

    Quebec to Pay “Significantly More” than $5B to Jilted Utica Drillers

    December 2, 2021December 2, 2021

    In October the province of Quebec, Canada announced it will expropriate all of the rights for all oil and gas companies in the province to drill and extract oil and natural gas (see Lights Out for All O&G Production in Quebec, Including Utica Shale). It’s all being shut down–including actively producing wells. Shutting down existing businesses in the province is something you might expect in Communist China, or Soviet Russia, or tin-horn dictatorships in South America. It’s not something you expect to see in Western democracies. Yet it’s happening in Quebec, home to a large deposit of the Utica Shale. Now Quebec drillers, those who had planned to tap their vast Utica Shale assets, are demanding Quebec pay up, and the price will be “significantly more” than the $3 billion to $5 billion floated by the province’s energy association.
    Read More “Quebec to Pay “Significantly More” than $5B to Jilted Utica Drillers”

  • Beaver County | Economic Impact | Energy Companies | Ethane | Industrywide Issues | Jobs | Pennsylvania | Processing Plants | Shell

    Fact: Shell Cracker a Huge Positive for Beaver County Economy, Jobs

    December 2, 2021December 2, 2021

    The so-called Ohio River Valley Institute (ORVI) is a far-left, hyper-partisan, nonprofit organization that routinely lies about the Marcellus/Utica industry. A Pittsburgh area labor and business group called Pittsburgh Works Together (PWT) routinely debunks ORVI’s falsehoods. Here’s the latest lie from ORVI: “[T]he Shell petrochemical complex has failed to produce economic growth in Beaver County.” Here’s the truth, the facts, as shared by PWT: “In the years before the COVID-19 pandemic began in 2020, Beaver County grew jobs far faster than the overall Pittsburgh region, the state of Pennsylvania, and the U.S, according to data from the U.S. Bureau of labor statistics. And Beaver County’s economy expanded twice as fast as the rest of the state, and faster than the U.S. economy overall, gross domestic product (GDP) data show.”
    Read More “Fact: Shell Cracker a Huge Positive for Beaver County Economy, Jobs”

  • Energy Services | Industrywide Issues | Luzerne County | Nacero | Pennsylvania | Processing Plants

    Nacero, Building GTL Plant in NEPA, Gets Air Permit for Texas Plant

    December 2, 2021December 2, 2021
    Artist rendering of Nacro facility in Texas (click for larger version)

    In November we shared the exciting news that Nacero Inc. will build a $6 billion refinery on the site of a former coal mine in Newport Township and Nanticoke in Luzerne County, PA (see NEPA Huge Deal – $6B Plant to Convert Marcellus Gas to Gasoline). The plant will convert Marcellus natural gas into zero-sulfur gasoline for use in existing cars and trucks without modification. However, Nacero has plans to build three such plants in the U.S. One of their projects, located in Texas, has just received an air quality permit and plans to begin construction on phase one within the next 30 days.
    Read More “Nacero, Building GTL Plant in NEPA, Gets Air Permit for Texas Plant”

  • Chesapeake Energy | Energy Companies | ESG | Industrywide Issues

    Chesapeake Energy Launches ‘We’re Clean & Green’ ESG Website

    December 2, 2021December 2, 2021

    Chesapeake Energy is the latest big oil and gas producer with major assets in the Marcellus region to declare itself clean and green. The company just launched a new “microsite” (website) dedicated to the company’s ESG reporting and progress toward its climate-related targets. ESG stands for environmental, social, and governance efforts. You already know what we think of such programs (see It’s Time for ESG Investing to End and Drilling to Restart).
    Read More “Chesapeake Energy Launches ‘We’re Clean & Green’ ESG Website”

  • Industrywide Issues | Jobs | Research

    43% of O&G Workers Want to Leave the Industry – Jobs Go Unfilled

    December 2, 2021December 2, 2021

    Here’s a startling statistic: A survey of nearly 17,000 global energy industry companies, recruiters, and workers conducted by Brunel and Oilandgasjobsearch.com shows 43% of current employees in O&G want to leave the energy industry altogether, within the next 5 years. Here’s an even bigger flabbergaster: When asked which sectors they’d pursue employment opportunities in, 56% of those working in oil and gas said they will look for new work in so-called renewable energy.
    Read More “43% of O&G Workers Want to Leave the Industry – Jobs Go Unfilled”

  • Best of the Rest

    Other Stories of Interest: Thu, Dec 2, 2021

    December 2, 2021December 2, 2021

    NATIONAL: Oil falls as omicron variant threatens the U.S.; Exxon to spend $15B on GHG reduction projects by 2027; Biden lacks understanding of oil’s contributions to civilization; Shale drillers to lift USA spending 19 percent.
    Read More “Other Stories of Interest: Thu, Dec 2, 2021”

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