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

    NYMEX NatGas Down 20% in Single Day on Freeport LNG Bad News

    June 15, 2022June 15, 2022

    Freeport LNG provided an update yesterday to inform the public about what happened at its export facility just south of Galveston, Texas, situated on the Gulf Coast. Freeport said an “incident” occurred in pipe racks that support the transfer of LNG from the facility’s LNG storage tank area to the terminal’s dock facilities located on the intracoastal (i.e., north) side of Freeport LNG’s dock basin. None of the liquefaction trains, LNG storage tanks, dock facilities, or LNG process areas were impacted. Freeport originally said the facility would be back online in three weeks. That’s a pipe dream (pun intended). Yesterday Freeport revised their estimate to three months minimum before partial operations are back online. It will be the end of the year for full operations exporting all 2 Bcf/d are back online, according to Freeport.
    Read More “NYMEX NatGas Down 20% in Single Day on Freeport LNG Bad News”

  • Anti-Drilling/Fossil Fuel | Industrywide Issues | Statewide WV | West Virginia

    6 Banks Threatened by WV for Anti-Fossil Fuel Activity Identified

    June 15, 2022June 15, 2022

    On Monday MDN brought you the news that West Virginia State Treasurer Riley Moore sent a letter to six big banks/investment firms alerting them they are about to be added to the state’s “blacklist” for violating policies by not investing or doing business with fossil fuel companies (see WV Threatens 6 Banks for Breaking State Anti-Fossil Fuel Law). The six companies have 30 days to respond or they are officially added to the list. We now have the names of the six companies–companies we would encourage you to stop doing business with. Yes, BlackRock is one of the six.
    Read More “6 Banks Threatened by WV for Anti-Fossil Fuel Activity Identified”

  • Air Quality | Industrywide Issues | Pennsylvania | Regulation | Statewide PA

    PA EQB Adopts Tweaked Version of Onerous VOC/Methane Regulations

    June 15, 2022June 15, 2022

    The Pennsylvania Dept. of Environmental Protection’s (DEP) Environmental Quality Board (EQB) figures a quarter of a loaf of bread is better than no loaf at all. (In this case, no loaf is preferred!) We’re referring to the EQB’s adoption of onerous new regulations that supposedly will capture every last molecule of stray methane that leaks from shale drilling operations (see PA EQB Approves Final Onerous Methane Regs Harming Conv Drillers). The EQB voted yesterday to advance a rule that only affects shale sites and related equipment–not conventional drilling.
    Read More “PA EQB Adopts Tweaked Version of Onerous VOC/Methane Regulations”

  • Energy Companies | ESG | Industrywide Issues | Southwestern Energy

    Southwestern Signs Deal to Sell “Responsible” NatGas to German Co.

    June 15, 2022June 15, 2022

    Southwestern Energy yesterday announced a multi-year, certified Responsibly Sourced Gas (RSG) sales agreement to the North American subsidiary of Uniper, one of Germany’s largest publicly listed energy supply companies. Uniper will use the RSG gas it buys from Southwestern to resell to its customers here in the U.S., as well as send some of it to LNG export facilities where it will find its way to other countries, primarily in Europe. The molecules for the RSG agreement will come from both the Marcellus/Utica and from Southwestern’s newest plaything–the Haynesville Shale.
    Read More “Southwestern Signs Deal to Sell “Responsible” NatGas to German Co.”

  • Commodity Price | Industrywide Issues

    M-U Production & Demand Pretty Much in Balance, Prices Remain High

    June 15, 2022June 15, 2022

    Not many months ago it appeared the Marcellus/Utica was about to replay a movie we’ve seen before: not enough pipelines to move our gas to better-paying markets leading to a crash in the regional price for natural gas. We can’t count how many years the M-U drillers bumped along getting around $1/Mcf for M-U gas, because we could not move it to better-paying markets. But the script has flipped. No, our pipeline capacity has not changed all that much, but something else *has* changed–demand for natural gas from customers in the northeast has gone up, keeping the prices our drillers receive nice and high.
    Read More “M-U Production & Demand Pretty Much in Balance, Prices Remain High”

  • CNG/LNG | Industrywide Issues

    Eagle LNG to Supply Royal Caribbean Cruise Ship with LNG at Jaxport

    June 15, 2022June 15, 2022

    In July 2018 Eagle LNG officially opened its Maxville, Florida (suburb of Jacksonville) liquefaction facility to first liquefy then transport LNG to Crowley’s new LNG bunkering facility at the Port of Jacksonville (Jaxport) where the LNG is used to fuel two Crowley LNG-powered ships designed to carry both containerized and roll-on/roll-off cargo (see Marc/Utica Gas Trucked to Jacksonville, FL for Use in LNG Ship). In August 2020 Eagle and Crowley celebrated the 100th “bunkering” event (see Eagle LNG Celebrates 100th LNG Bunkering at Port of Jacksonville). Eagle is signing up new customers for its bunkering service. Royal Caribbean has signed a deal for Eagle to “fill ‘er up” to service the cruising company’s first LNG-powered cruise vessel, Icon of the Seas.
    Read More “Eagle LNG to Supply Royal Caribbean Cruise Ship with LNG at Jaxport”

  • CNG/LNG | Exporting | Industrywide Issues

    Snapshot of LNG in Europe – Who Imports, Where, Pipes that Flow It

    June 15, 2022June 15, 2022

    In years gone by arrogant Europeans turned their noses up to American “fracked” LNG (see France Blocks $7 Billion U.S. LNG Deal as “Too Dirty”). When Vladimir Putin launched his unprovoked war against Ukraine in February of this year, snobby European attitudes changed overnight (see US LNG Heading to Europe Spikes from 30% to 70% Last 2 Months). Now Europe can’t get enough of our “fracked” natural gas. Europe is a pretty big place. Which countries are we talking about? Who imports our LNG, and how does it get to them–especially if they are landlocked?
    Read More “Snapshot of LNG in Europe – Who Imports, Where, Pipes that Flow It”

  • Best of the Rest

    Other Stories of Interest: Wed, Jun 15, 2022

    June 15, 2022June 15, 2022

    OTHER U.S. REGIONS: Stabenow’s out of touch quip about her electric car; NATIONAL: Oil falls on signs of more energy legislation; Biden sets Saudi visit; Continental gets take private proposal from Hamm; Oil and gas prices to rise across the board, Fitch says; INTERNATIONAL: IEA warns global oil supply could struggle to match demand in 2023; LNG tanker charter rates hit record highs as demand soars.
    Read More “Other Stories of Interest: Wed, Jun 15, 2022”

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