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  • Anti-Drilling/Fossil Fuel | CNG/LNG | Industrywide Issues | Pipelines

    Nightmare in Boston – Everett LNG Import Terminal May Close 2024

    May 22, 2023May 22, 2023
    Everett LNG import terminal

    The Democrat left’s blockade of new natural gas pipelines from the Pennsylvania Marcellus Shale into New England is about to be exposed as the biggest mistake ever made by people like current Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey (who blocked pipelines as Attorney General). Next year, New England’s biggest natural gas-fired power plant–the Mystic Generating Station in Everett, MA (Boston suburb)–will shut down. It’s no longer profitable for the owner, Constellation Energy, to keep operating. Next door to the power plant is another facility owned by Constellation–the Everett LNG import terminal, which accepts and regasifies foreign natural gas. Speculation is that since the power plant’s main source of gas comes from the LNG import terminal, the LNG terminal may close down too. Which means Boston and New England are in deep doo-doo.
    Read More “Nightmare in Boston – Everett LNG Import Terminal May Close 2024”

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

    BLM Approves MVP ROW Through Jefferson Natl Forest – Part III

    May 22, 2023May 22, 2023

    Last week MDN told you the U.S. Forest Service (USFS) had given final approval to Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP) to install pipe through 3.5 miles of woodlands, and under the Appalachian Trail, in the Jefferson National Forest in Monroe County in West Virginia, in and Giles and Montgomery counties in Virginia for the THIRD time (see USFS Approves Plan for MVP to Build Through Jefferson Natl Forest). Approval was subject to the Biden Bureau of Land Management (BLM) endorsing USFS’s plan by issuing a right-of-way grant and permit. BLM’s approval came a few days later.
    Read More “BLM Approves MVP ROW Through Jefferson Natl Forest – Part III”

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

    Shell PA Cracker Plant Remains Shut Down for “Few Weeks” at Least

    May 22, 2023May 22, 2023

    The Shell ethane cracker plant in Beaver County, PA (near Pittsburgh) has experienced a number of problems over the past six months during startup, including flaring and foul odors (see Shell Hosts Virtual Meeting with Community re Cracker Problems). Earlier this month, Shell’s new CEO called the cracker plant problems “technical niggles,” meaning minor irritations (see Shell CEO Calls PA Cracker Plant Problems “Technical Niggles”). It looks like the problems are more than just niggles. The plant is shut down and will remain so for at least “the next few weeks,” according to Shell.
    Read More “Shell PA Cracker Plant Remains Shut Down for “Few Weeks” at Least”

  • Electrical Generation | Energy Companies | ESG | Industrywide Issues | Rice Energy

    Dan Rice’s Net-Zero CO2 Co. Gets $50M Investment from South Korea

    May 22, 2023May 22, 2023

    Last December, Rice Acquisition Corp II, a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) started by the Rice brothers (Danny, Toby, and Derek), announced a deal to acquire NET Power–an electric power developer with revolutionary new technology to capture every last molecule of carbon dioxide from natural gas-fired power plants (see Dan Rice Buys Co. that Builds Zero-Carbon Gas-Fired Electric Plants). The deal is not yet consummated but is getting close. In April, we told you that two of the investors in the venture, Occidental Petroleum and the Rice boys themselves, were kicking in a combined extra $275 million to help close the deal (see Dan Rice’s New “Net-Zero” CO2 Company Gets Extra $275M Investment). On Friday, the deal got another $50 million cash infusion from South Korea.
    Read More “Dan Rice’s Net-Zero CO2 Co. Gets $50M Investment from South Korea”

  • Industrywide Issues | Research

    Weekly Rig Count Down Big Again – This Time Oil, Not Gas Rigs

    May 22, 2023May 22, 2023

    Oilfield services company (OFS) Baker Hughes is the keeper of the venerable oil and gas industry rig count, which it has been tabulating since 1944. Last Monday, we reported on the previous Friday’s rig count as a gut punch to the natural gas sector, with some 16 gas-focused rigs being taken out of service (see U.S. Natural Gas Drilling Rig Count Craters, Down 10% in One Week). The prevailing theory is that there is a massive pullback on new natgas drilling due to ongoing low prices for gas. We cautioned that one week does not make a trend. Let’s see what happens in future weeks. So, how about the BH rig count from last Friday? What did it show?
    Read More “Weekly Rig Count Down Big Again – This Time Oil, Not Gas Rigs”

  • Anti-Drilling/Fossil Fuel | Industrywide Issues | Regulation

    FERC’s Clements Exposed for Questionable Ethics, Ties to Big Green

    May 22, 2023August 24, 2023
    FERC Commissioner Allison Clements

    A new expose running in RealClearEnergy reveals the tight relationship between Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) Commissioner Allison Clements and several Big Green groups, calling into question her ethics and her right to remain on the commission. In a May 4th Senate hearing featuring the four FERC commissioners, Sen. Josh Hawley, R-MO, questioned Clements about a “closed-door” meeting she had with the funders of a left-leaning grantmaking institution known as the Energy Foundation. Participants in that meeting included the litigious, anti-fossil energy activist groups Sierra Club, EarthJustice, and Natural Resource Defense Council (Clements’ former employer).
    Read More “FERC’s Clements Exposed for Questionable Ethics, Ties to Big Green”

  • MUI

    MDN Upstream Index (MUI) – May 22, 2023

    May 22, 2023May 22, 2023

    The most recent day of active trading was Fri., May 19, 2023. The numbers below reflect Friday’s closing numbers.


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  • Best of the Rest

    Other Stories of Interest: Mon, May 22, 2023

    May 22, 2023May 22, 2023

    NATIONAL: Most of US faces elevated risk of blackouts this summer; ExxonMobil, Shell explode a pair of energy transition myths; Things I truly don’t understand about the “inevitable energy transition”; INTERNATIONAL: Russia reportedly delivering nearly 1.44 bcf of gas a day via Ukraine; Green groups say G7 support for more gas investments “death sentence.”
    Read More “Other Stories of Interest: Mon, May 22, 2023”

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