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  • Enbridge | Energy Services | Industrywide Issues | Pipelines

    Enbridge Announces $100M TETCO Pipe Expansion in Marcellus/Utica

    February 15, 2022February 15, 2022

    As part of its fourth-quarter and full-year 2021 update, Canadian pipeline giant Enbridge (with huge assets in the U.S., including in the Marcellus/Utica) announced it is spending $400 million to expand capacity on its Texas Eastern Pipeline Company (TETCO) system. Enbridge will also spend an additional $100 million on TETCO for the newly-announced Appalachia to Market Phase II expansion. That’s half a billion dollars on TETCO spending beginning this year. TETCO currently flows roughly 1.9 Bcf/d of Marcellus/Utica molecules with the power to influence gas prices (see TETCO Pipeline Restart Boosts M-U NatGas Cash Prices).
    Read More “Enbridge Announces $100M TETCO Pipe Expansion in Marcellus/Utica”

  • Electrical Generation | Industrywide Issues | Virginia

    Chickahominy Pipeline Project in Central Va. Hits Pause Button

    February 15, 2022February 15, 2022

    MDN first told you about plans to build the Chickahominy Power Station, a 1,650 megawatt state-of-the-art natural gas-fired power plant in Charles City County, VA, in June 2018 (see Huge New Marcellus-Fired Power Plant Coming Near Richmond, VA). The plant will need a 24-inch gas pipeline that would traverse five counties in central Virginia to connect to an interstate pipeline that would feed Marcellus/Utica gas to the plant (see Richmond Gas-Fired Plant Explores Building Pipeline Thru 5 Counties). The Chickahominy Pipeline has hit the pause button on building the pipeline. Why?
    Read More “Chickahominy Pipeline Project in Central Va. Hits Pause Button”

  • Industrywide Issues | Research

    EIA DPR: M-U on Track to Beat All-Time Production Record in March

    February 15, 2022February 15, 2022
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    In a pattern we’ve observed for months, once again six of the seven largest shale plays in the U.S. will see an increase in natural gas production in March according to the latest monthly Drilling Productivity Report (DPR) issued yesterday by the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA). The Marcellus/Utica, collectively lumped together as “Appalachia” in the report, will see an increase of 114 MMcf/d (million cubic feet per day) in production next month. The M-U’s chief rival, the Haynesville, continues to see explosive growth, with an increase of 174 MMcf/d next month. The oil-based Permian will see a big increase in natgas production of 124 MMcf/d due to associated gas coming out of the ground along with oil. The Permian’s oil production is set to hit a new all-time high in March, forecasted to hit an average of 5.2 million barrels of oil per day.
    Read More “EIA DPR: M-U on Track to Beat All-Time Production Record in March”

  • Anti-Drilling/Fossil Fuel | Energy Services | Equitrans/EQT Midstream | Industrywide Issues | Pipelines | Regulation | Statewide VA | Statewide WV | Virginia | West Virginia

    Army Corps Waiting for Redo of Candy Darter Report for MVP Permit

    February 15, 2022February 15, 2022
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    Nearly two weeks ago we brought you the sad and angering news that the clown judges of the 4th Circus Court of Appeals overturned a FERC-approved plan by Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP) to switch from using open trench to underground horizontal directional drilling to cross 136 streams and 47 wetlands in Virginia and West Virginia (see 4th Circuit Throws Out Plan for Safer MVP Drilling re Candy Darter). The cited reason for rejecting the plan is a concern for two species of endangered fishies, one of them the candy darter. The nattering nabobs of Big Green group Appalachian Mountain Advocates are pestering the Army Corps to provide assurances they won’t move forward anytime soon with approving construction for MVP given the court decision.
    Read More “Army Corps Waiting for Redo of Candy Darter Report for MVP Permit”

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

    Analyzing Latest MVP Setback and Constrained M-U Pipe Situation

    February 15, 2022February 15, 2022

    All eyes are on Equitrans Midstream, the builder of the 303-mile Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP) project that is, once again, on pause due to the leftist judges who sit on the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals. In a pair of decisions a week apart, the clown judges overturned a permit and a plan to change drilling methods so the 94% completed MVP can finish (see 4th Circuit Throws Out Plan for Safer MVP Drilling re Candy Darter and 4th Circus Clowns Overturn MVP Permit for Jeff Natl Forest, Again). Next week Equitrans issues its fourth-quarter 2021 update and will no doubt have to address the timing issue of when they now expect to complete MVP.
    Read More “Analyzing Latest MVP Setback and Constrained M-U Pipe Situation”

  • Alternative Energy | Industrywide Issues | M&A

    Dan Rice’s Renewable Energy SPAC Moving to Houston, TX

    February 15, 2022February 15, 2022

    In December 2020, Dan Rice IV, former CEO of Rice Energy and a member of the EQT board of directors, launched a “blank check” acquisition firm, called Rice Acquisition Corp., to invest in various energy ventures. Dan found that something-to-invest-in just a few months later in the form of acquiring and merging together Archaea Energy and Aria Energy into a single company focused on providing renewable natural gas (RNG) and “green” hydrogen (see Dan Rice Bets $1 Billion that Landfill Gas is the Next Big Thing). With the merger done, the new company (using the Archaea Energy name) is moving from Pittsburgh to Houston, Texas. Because of the move, the company needs a new chief financial officer and a chief legal officer.
    Read More “Dan Rice’s Renewable Energy SPAC Moving to Houston, TX”

  • Commodity Price | Economic Impact | Industrywide Issues

    With Oil Approaching $100, Big Banks Funding Oil & Gas Once Again

    February 15, 2022February 15, 2022

    In direct contravention to the advice, pressure, and bullying of Joe Biden’s “Special Presidential Envoy for Climate” John Kerry, who insists that banks and investors refuse to fund oil and gas companies, big banks around the world (and here in the U.S.) are disregarding Kerry’s hot air and, with $100/barrel oil almost here, opening up the door to the bank vault and showering oil and gas with money once again. Hey John, money talks and (you know what) walks…
    Read More “With Oil Approaching $100, Big Banks Funding Oil & Gas Once Again”

  • Best of the Rest

    Other Stories of Interest: Tue, Feb 15, 2022

    February 15, 2022February 15, 2022

    NATIONAL: What happens when a midstream company gets flipped; The similarities between ESG and fascism are scary; INTERNATIONAL: USA crude to help set most vital oil price from 2023; America takes pole position on oil and gas; Energy markets are jittery as Russia-Ukraine tensions drag on.
    Read More “Other Stories of Interest: Tue, Feb 15, 2022”

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