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Guernsey County | Noble County | Ohio

Leasing Activity Picks Up in Noble & Guernsey Counties in Ohio
October 17, 2023October 17, 2023

According to an article in Ohio Country Journal, interest and activity in eastern Ohio’s oil and gas leasing has been growing in some new areas. Those areas include, says Clif Little, Ohio State University Extension educator in Guernsey County, portions of Guernsey and Noble counties where there hadn’t been interest in the past. Little specializes in, among other things, oil and gas leases. He’s the author of “Important aspects of an oil and gas lease” (copy below), chock full of good tips for landowners either leasing for the first time or looking to re-lease.
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Energy Companies | EQT Corp | Hydrogen | Industrywide Issues | Pennsylvania | Statewide PA

EQT Confirms Plan to Produce Jet Fuel from NatGas, but Few Details
October 17, 2023October 17, 2023

Yesterday, we brought you the great news that the Marcellus/Utica region scored one of seven major hydrogen hub project grants being dished out by the Bidenistas (see Hydrogen Hub Winners Announced – WV Takes Prize in M-U Region). As we pointed out, West Virginia is the big winner, hosting most of the 15 projects associated with the Appalachian Regional Clean Hydrogen Hub (ARCH2). However, other states, including Ohio, Kentucky, and even Pennsylvania, will also benefit by having some projects related to ARCH2 funding located in those respective states. One such project, that we are just now becoming aware of, is a plan by EQT to manufacture low-carbon aviation fuel using natural gas as a feedstock.
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Hydrogen | Industrywide Issues | Pennsylvania | Statewide PA

SWPA Labor Unions Disappointed Bidenistas Gave Hydrogen Hub to WV
October 17, 2023October 17, 2023

Last Friday in Philadelphia, President Joe Biden tried to sell the line that Pennsylvania was a big winner in the Hydrogen Hub Hunger Games (see Hydrogen Hub Winners Announced – WV Takes Prize in M-U Region). PA Gov. Josh Shapiro also tried to sell that same line, falsely claiming PA is “the only state to secure projects for two regional hydrogen hubs. The future of clean energy will run through Pennsylvania.” The truth is that PA got table scraps (see PA Gets Consolation Prize in Hydrogen Hub Awards). Biden and Shapiro’s clap-trap didn’t fool the labor unions in southwestern PA who are upset that PA’s application for a hydrogen hub was passed over by the Bidenistas.
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Anti-Drilling/Fossil Fuel | Hydrogen | Industrywide Issues | Pennsylvania | Statewide PA

Enviro Left Hates Biden Plan to Support & Fund Hydrogen Hubs
October 17, 2023October 17, 2023

Haters gonna hate (shake it off, shake it off). We learned that from philosophical genius and pop culture guru Taylor Swift. “Hate” perfectly describes the radicalized left in this country that refuses to admit the reality and truth that 95% of all hydrogen today comes from cracking natural gas. In the future, that percentage is likely to remain about the same. Of the seven projects the Bidenistas awarded $7 billion to last Friday in the Hydrogen Hub Hunger Games, four of the seven in whole or in part will use natural gas as their feedstock to create hydrogen (see Hydrogen Hub Winners Announced – WV Takes Prize in M-U Region). That’s $4 billion of the $7 billion going for natgas-related projects, which does not please the haters who are having a conniption fit and loudly expressing their displeasure.
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Anti-Drilling/Fossil Fuel | Crime | Energy Services | Equitrans/EQT Midstream | Industrywide Issues | Montgomery County | Pipelines | Virginia

3 Out-of-State Protesters Arrested for Blocking MVP Construction
October 17, 2023October 17, 2023

Multiple people arrested in connection to protests tied to the Mountain Valley Pipeline. (Credit: Appalachians Against Pipelines)

This is growing tiresome. Appalachians Against Pipelines, a group backed with big money from Big Green, continues to funnel paid “protesters” to construction sites for the 95% completed Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP), mainly in Montgomery County, Va., who chain themselves to equipment requiring state troopers to carefully remove them (requiring hours), slowing the already challenging work to complete the project. And then local county judges don’t do anything to stop it (see Va. County Judge Refuses to Stop Illegal Activities of MVP Protesters). About 25 protesters showed up at a Montgomery County construction site yet again yesterday. Three of them — every one of them from out of state — chained themselves to equipment (using “sleeping dragon” devices). All three were arrested and removed, but at the cost of yet another delay.
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Anti-Drilling/Fossil Fuel | Energy Services | Equitrans/EQT Midstream | Industrywide Issues | Pipelines | Statewide VA | Statewide WV | Virginia | West Virginia

MVP Hits Construction Challenges – Will it Get Done in 2023?
October 17, 2023October 17, 2023

Since work resumed in midsummer, 92 stream crossings had been completed through Oct. 1 for the 303-mile Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP) project, according to MVP spokeswoman Natalie Cox. About 330 crossings remain. Can the company realistically complete the rest of the work and get the pipeline operational by Dec. 31 (less than three months away)? That’s the multi-billion-dollar question. Some 4,200 construction workers are actively working on getting it done. It doesn’t help that highly organized “protests” are being inflicted on the project by Big Green-backed groups like Appalachians Against Pipeline.
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Industrywide Issues | Research

EIA Oct DPR: Big Drop in Shale Gas Production in M-U & Haynesville
October 17, 2023October 17, 2023

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The latest monthly U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) Drilling Productivity Report (DPR) for October, issued yesterday (below), shows EIA believes shale gas production across the seven major plays tracked in the monthly DPR for November will *decrease* production from the prior month of October — by a huge quantity. This is the fourth month in a row EIA predicts shale gas production will decrease for the combined seven plays. EIA says combined natgas production will slide by 451 MMcf/d (million cubic feet per day) — nearly half a billion cubic feet per day (Bcf/d). The Marcellus/Utica, called “Appalachia” in the report, is predicted to decrease by a massive 194 MMcf/d in November compared with October, the biggest decrease in gas production for any of the seven plays.
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October 17, 2023October 17, 2023

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