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    EIA Mar DPR: NatGas Production Continues to Drop, Oil Grows

    March 19, 2024March 19, 2024

    The latest monthly U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) Drilling Productivity Report (DPR) for March, issued yesterday (below), shows EIA believes shale gas production across the seven major plays tracked in the monthly DPR for April will decrease production from the prior month of March. This is the ninth month in a row that EIA has predicted shale gas production will decrease for the combined seven plays. However, it won’t decrease everywhere. Gas-focused plays like the Marcellus/Utica and the Haynesville will see the biggest drop in production. In contrast, the oily Permian play will boost the production of “associated” natural gas — the gas that comes out of the ground along with oil. The Permian is also boosting oil production in April.
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  • Commodity Price | Crude Oil | Industrywide Issues

    NatGas Plays Like M-U & Haynesville Getting Slammed by Assoc. Gas

    March 19, 2024March 19, 2024

    For years, we have watched natural gas production in oil-focused plays like the Permian (in Texas and New Mexico) steadily rise. It was an annoyance, a curiosity, mostly an afterthought because production in the Marcellus/Utica, where we concentrate our attention, was also rising and quite dominant. But the M-U hit a plateau in December 2019 and in January 2020 began a long-term trend of staying about even (see EIA Dec ’19 Drilling Report: M-U Production Drops 1st Time in Yrs). Some months, gas production in the M-U goes higher, some months lower, but over the past few years, it has remained in the 35-36 Bcf/d (billion cubic feet per day) range. The problem (for the M-U and other gas plays) is that the Permian continues to add gas production month after month and year after year. It’s a competitive threat.
    Read More “NatGas Plays Like M-U & Haynesville Getting Slammed by Assoc. Gas”

  • Anti-Drilling/Fossil Fuel | Chesterfield County | Dominion Energy | Electrical Generation | Energy Services | Industrywide Issues | Virginia

    Virginia Democrat Lawmakers Don’t Want Dominion Gas-Fired Plant

    March 19, 2024March 19, 2024

    In an embarrassing act of ignorance, seven Virginia state delegates and two state senators (all of them Democrats) who represent the greater Richmond, VA area signed a statement last Wednesday opposing Dominion Energy’s plan to build four small “peaker” electric generating plants in Chesterfield County, VA, a Richmond suburb (see Dominion Plans to Build 1,000-MW Gas Peaker Plant Near Richmond, VA). The Chesterfield Energy Reliability Center in the James River Industrial Center calls for building four 250-megawatt gas-fired power plants (1,000 MW total) that can jump into action during the coldest and hottest days of the year to help supply enough electricity for 250,000 homes.
    Read More “Virginia Democrat Lawmakers Don’t Want Dominion Gas-Fired Plant”

  • Duke Energy | Electrical Generation | Energy Services | Industrywide Issues | North Carolina

    Duke Energy Replacing Another 2 Coal Plants with NatGas in NC

    March 19, 2024March 19, 2024

    In February, MDN brought you the news that utility giant Duke Energy plans to build a gigantic natural gas-fired power plant next to another planned gas-fired plant at the existing coal-fired Roxboro Plant on Hyco Lake, in Person County, NC (see Duke Energy Seeks to Build 2 Massive Gas-Fired Power Plants in NC). Each plant would generate 1,360 megawatts (MW) of electricity. Now comes word of yet another pair of gas-fired plants Duke wants to build, but in a different location — in Catawba County. These two new plants together would generate a combined 850 MW (much smaller than the Person County plants) and would also replace coal-fired plants there now. Marcellus/Utica molecules would be needed to feed them.
    Read More “Duke Energy Replacing Another 2 Coal Plants with NatGas in NC”

  • Beech Resources | Bradford County | Chesapeake Energy | Energy Companies | Greylock Energy | Industrywide Issues | Lycoming County | Pennsylvania | Potter County | Regulation | Seneca Resources | Southwestern Energy | Susquehanna County | Tioga County (PA) | Wyoming County (PA)

    SRBC Approves 8 Water Withdrawal Requests for Fracking in NEPA

    March 19, 2024March 19, 2024

    The highly functional and responsible Susquehanna River Basin Commission (SRBC), unlike its completely dysfunctional and irresponsible cousin, the Delaware River Basin Commission (DRBC), continues to support the shale energy industry by approving water withdrawals for responsible and safe shale drilling. Last Thursday, the SRBC approved 23 new water withdrawal requests within the basin, eight of them for water used in drilling and fracking shale wells in Pennsylvania. The Marcellus/Utica shale drillers receiving a green light from SRBC included Beech Resources, Chesapeake Energy, Greylock Energy, Seneca Resources, and Southwestern Energy.
    Read More “SRBC Approves 8 Water Withdrawal Requests for Fracking in NEPA”

  • Anti-Drilling/Fossil Fuel | Crime | Energy Services | Equitrans/EQT Midstream | Industrywide Issues | Pipelines | Virginia

    Another Environut Stops MVP Work by Crawling Inside Pipe 36 Hrs

    March 19, 2024March 19, 2024

    Last week, a 22-year-old activist too cowardly to give her name spent nearly 36 hours inside the Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP) in Virginia, halting construction on a section of the pipeline for two days. It is the latest in a string of organized criminal activity against the pipeline project. Two weeks ago, we told you about two old anti-Semitic hippies arrested for locking themselves to an old fossil fuel-powered car who blocked an MVP construction road for 11 hours (see MVP Protesters Reveal Themselves as Anti-Semites). Last week’s campout inside MVP was more of the same.
    Read More “Another Environut Stops MVP Work by Crawling Inside Pipe 36 Hrs”

  • Anti-Drilling/Fossil Fuel | Industrywide Issues

    The Cause of Climate Change on Earth is… Mars?!

    March 19, 2024March 19, 2024
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    This will come as a major disappointment to the climate worshippers who believe, as an article of faith, that mankind is causing the planet to toast by burning fossil fuels. News flash: Mankind and fossil fuels are not causing our current pattern of warming. Scientists doing some real research using real data have discovered that when the Earth and Mars pass each other in years-long cycles as both planets circle the sun, Mars and Earth “tug” at each other’s orbits and cause the Earth to get a tad closer to the sun. You know, the sun, that big ball of burning hydrogen that emits sunlight and heat? The scientists can lay a ruler down and show that when such “tugging” happens, the temps here on Mom Earth rise for a time, for a period of years. And then years later, when the tugging stops, our temps fall again, and we get ice ages. It’s been happening for millennia.
    Read More “The Cause of Climate Change on Earth is… Mars?!”

  • Best of the Rest

    Other Stories of Interest: Tue, Mar 19, 2024

    March 19, 2024March 19, 2024

    MARCELLUS/UTICA REGION: Is Gov. Shapiro’s pivot toward energy taxes in PA driving unions to GOP?; OTHER U.S. REGIONS: LNG developer Tellurian to explore sale, CEO steps down; Exxon CEO says hydrogen project at risk without IRA tax credits; NYC pols urge Albany to OK tax break for ‘green’ mandate; NATIONAL: U.S. crude oil exports reached a record in 2023; Team Biden undermines American, European energy security; INTERNATIONAL: Exploding energy demand places spotlight on decarbonization; Aramco investing in renewables but slams fantasy of no O&G; Globalists hallucinate that humanity’s “micro-second” is mightier than galactic forces.
    Read More “Other Stories of Interest: Tue, Mar 19, 2024”

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