MDN Website Updates
A few months ago, MDN hired an expert webmaster and tech guy to manage, maintain, and upgrade the website. Recently MDN began to experience some technical issues due to an aging “theme” we use on our WordPress website. Things came to a head recently, and our new expert recommended a theme upgrade. We’re happy to say it’s here! Hopefully, you won’t notice many, if any, changes in the website. It still looks and behaves pretty much as it always has. And that is the point. No disruptions.
The link colors and a few other things have changed, but overall the site should work as it always has–hopefully better. Jim’s request of you, our faithful readers: If you notice any problems or issues, please send Jim an email (jim@marcellusdrilling.com) describing what it is. Inevitably, one or two things will escape our notice when doing a website upgrade. Feel free to point them out.
In the coming months, Jim will explore an upgrade to the ancient “membership” program that manages access for paid subscribers. And possibly a new cart/credit card service (instead of Paypal). We will let you know as these changes come along and do our best to minimize any disruptions to the MDN service.
Earlier this month, we noticed a short Bloomberg article about a stray comment made by Exxon Mobile CEO Darren Woods. He was speaking at the Bernstein Annual Strategic Decisions Conference held on June 1 in New York City. Woods said he has tasked the brainiacs who work for Exxon to figure out a way to improve fracking, which (Woods said), is still “not well understood.” Woods wants to double oil recovery from fracked wells. Folks, doubling oil (and gas!) recovery via fracking would launch the second shale revolution!
The great state of Pennsylvania has an Independent Fiscal Office (IFO), created by Act 120 of 2010 and Act 100 of 2016. The IFO analyzes fiscal proposals made by state agencies and is nonpartisan with its analyses. PA State Senator Gene Yaw, from Lycoming County, introduced a bill earlier this week to create an Independent Energy Office (IEO) modeled along the same line as the IFO. It’s time to get an objective view of the policies proposed by both the left and the right–and how those energy policies will affect residents of PA.
Drilling Tools International (DTI) has just received a major cash infusion of $40.8 million to expand and begin trading as a public company. DTI is a Houston, Texas-based oilfield services company that manufactures and rents downhole drilling tools used in horizontal and directional drilling of oil and natural gas wells. DTI, a private company until now, operates from 22 locations across North America, Europe, and the Middle East, including a location in Charleroi (Washington County), PA, where it services Marcellus/Utica drillers.
The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) is a federally-owned electric utility corporation in the U.S. TVA’s service area covers all of Tennessee, portions of Alabama, Mississippi, and Kentucky, and small areas of Georgia, North Carolina, and Virginia. TVA is the sixth-largest power supplier and the largest public utility in the U.S. Two years ago, MDN told you that TVA is spending over $1 billion to replace six coal-fired plants with natgas-fired turbines (see 
MDN has repeatedly warned you that the International Energy Agency (IEA) has become a political shill for the extreme left environmental movement. Two years ago, the IEA published its laughable Net Zero Roadmap (see 
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