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EQT’s Game Plan Changed – Keep MVP & Expand Extra 0.5 Bcf/d
Yesterday, EQT Corporation, the country’s largest natural gas producer, issued its second quarter 2024 update. We’re dedicating another post to chronicling other news coming from the update. This post is dedicated to the most significant news from the update: EQT has decided to keep the newly christened 2.0 Bcf/d Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP) instead of selling it. Not only that, but EQT wants to expand the pipeline’s capacity from 2.0 to 2.5 Bcf/d as soon as possible.
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MDN’s lead story today is that EQT Corporation has decided to retain majority ownership in Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP) and expand the pipe’s capacity with compressors asap (see EQT’s Game Plan Changed – Keep MVP & Expand Extra 0.5 Bcf/d). This post deals with the other (big) news coming from yesterday’s second quarter 2024 update. Namely, EQT is looking to sell the rest of its non-operated assets in the northeastern Pennsylvania Marcellus. In addition, we learned that EQT is still curtailing (limiting) production through the second half of 2024.
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