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American Energy Partners Buys Apex Energy – Doubles Size & Revenue
In September MDN told you about an announcement by American Energy Partners, Inc. (AEPT), based in Allentown, PA, to buy an unnamed “privately held energy services company” located in the Marcellus/Utica region (see American Energy Buys Second M-U Energy Services Co.). We now know who that mysterious unnamed company is: Apex Energy Service, LLC, headquartered in Canonsburg, PA.
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Once again we return to the topic of pipelines in the Marcellus/Utica. Specifically, lack of pipeline capacity to handle all of the production we could be making were it not for constraints. Those constraints are because of vicious, anti-American leftists who oppose new pipeline projects by abusing our own court system. The M-U is forecasted to hit production of 42 billion cubic feet per day (Bcf/d) by 2025–and there it will stay because no new pipelines will get built or completed after 2023. We will be stunted.
Baby, it’s cold outside! At least here in the northeastern U.S. Cold temps in the northeast are causing an increase in the use of natural gas for both heating and electricity production. That increase in demand is (you guessed it) causing an increase in prices, and the increase in prices is causing some natural gas flows to reverse course and head north instead of south out of the Marcellus/Utica.
Economists are still analyzing the impact of the coronavirus pandemic from 2020, let alone assessing impacts from 2021. Cleveland State University researchers have run the numbers and have discovered something interesting. Of Ohio’s 88 counties, only 18 grew their economies in 2020. Of those 18, two counties stood head and shoulders above the rest for increases in economic activity. Both counties have something in common: Utica Shale drilling.
Atlantic Coast Pipeline (ACP) had laid 31 miles of pipeline and had cut trees for 222 miles along the 600-mile route before Dominion Energy, the builder, decided in 2020 it no longer wants to be in the interstate pipeline business, canceling ACP (see 
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