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14 New Shale Well Permits Issued for PA-OH-WV Sep 2 – 8

For the week of Sept. 2 – 8, 14 permits were issued to drill new shale wells in Marcellus/Utica, less than half the previous week’s 32. The Keystone State (PA) had 13 new permits. PA’s top recipient was Seneca Resources, with six permits issued in Tioga County. Range Resources was #2 with four permits for Lycoming County. Chesapeake Energy had two permits in Bradford County, and Inflection Energy had a single new permit in Lycoming County. Read More “14 New Shale Well Permits Issued for PA-OH-WV Sep 2 – 8”

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Apex Energy Clipped by PA DEP for Not Disclosing Frack Chemicals

According to Pennsylvania regulation 25 Pa. Code § 78a.122(b)(6)(iv), a drilling company must provide a list of the chemicals intentionally added to the stimulation [fracking] fluid by name and chemical abstract service (CAS) number in a Completion Report. The PA Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) says Apex Energy failed to provide that information on its reports for 37 shale wells in Westmoreland County drilled between March 20, 2018, and February 17, 2024. The DEP issued a NOV (Notice of Violation) to Apex on Sept. 9. Read More “Apex Energy Clipped by PA DEP for Not Disclosing Frack Chemicals”

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Cove Point LNG to Pay $60M per Year PILOT to Calvert County, MD

Cove Point LNG is an LNG export facility located in Lusby (Calvert County), Maryland. It is one of the most technically advanced and environmentally sensitive LNG facilities in the world. We recall as Dominion Energy was building the facility, environmental wackos uttered shrill warnings of habitat destruction coming for the Chesapeake Bay (where it’s located) should the facility go into production (see Green Groups Ask DC Judge to Stop Construction at Cove Point LNG). Nothing of the kind ever happened. The current owners of Cove Point, Berkshire Hathaway Energy (yes, that Berkshire, owned by Warren Buffett), just signed a deal paying Calvert County $60 million PER YEAR in lieu of property taxes, a “payment in lieu of taxes” or PILOT agreement. The local community and county commissioners could not be more delighted with the money and how Cove Point benefits the community. So much for all of the false claims by the wackos. Read More “Cove Point LNG to Pay $60M per Year PILOT to Calvert County, MD”

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Leftists Tell PA Voters Harris Can’t Ban Fracking; They’re Wrong

It’s really fascinating to watch this presidential election. Yes, we’ve promised to try and keep the politics to a minimum, but we must report on things we notice that have the potential to affect the shale drilling industry in general, and the Marcellus/Utica in particular. Here’s an issue we cannot keep silent about. As we’ve pointed out repeatedly, Kamala Harris hates fossil fuel energy and wants to eliminate it. She told a CNN moderator in 2019 that she favors “a ban on fracking.” Period. For the entire country. Yet now, because she must win Pennsylvania in order to win the race, she professes she is against a ban on fracking (see PA Climate Zealots Spit and Sputter Over Harris’ Fracking Flip-Flop). Along comes the Democrat media, via outlets like PBS, to try and convince PA voters that even if she wanted to ban fracking on private land (which she does), she could not, as President of the U.S., do so. Inferring it’s OK to vote for her because fracking is safe. We’re here to tell you that claim (that she can’t ban fracking) is demonstrably untrue. Read More “Leftists Tell PA Voters Harris Can’t Ban Fracking; They’re Wrong”

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Shale Insight 2024 – All-Star Lineup of Speakers, Important Topics

“We believe in using the resources we have in this basin to build a stronger tomorrow, without ignoring the critical realities of today,” said Marcellus Shale Coalition President Dave Callahan during his opening remarks at SHALE INSIGHT® last year. The MSC convenes its 14th industry-leading conference on September 24-26 at the Bayfront Convention Center in Erie, PA. Be sure to register now, so you don’t miss hearing from the “who’s who” lineup of national energy leaders and important stakeholders! Read More “Shale Insight 2024 – All-Star Lineup of Speakers, Important Topics”

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Appalachian Hydrogen & CCS Conf – Projects Coming in 2025

As you know, last year at about this time, the Bidenistas announced seven winners of the Hydrogen Hub Hunger Games contest (see Hydrogen Hub Winners Announced – WV Takes Prize in M-U Region). The West Virginia-led Appalachian Regional Clean Hydrogen Hub (ARCH2), a project that will use Marcellus/Utica natural gas as the feedstock to produce “blue” hydrogen, was one of the seven winners (scoring $925 million). The first $30 million was recently distributed (see EQT & Others Enter “Phase 1” of Hydrogen Hub; DOE Cuts $30M Check). If you want to know more about what’s coming with ARCH2 and in the hydrogen (and carbon capture) space in general, there’s one place to be on November 7: The Appalachian Hydrogen & Carbon Capture Conference VI, being held at the Hilton Garden Inn Southpointe/Pittsburgh. Read More “Appalachian Hydrogen & CCS Conf – Projects Coming in 2025”

MDN Housekeeping – Off Friday the 13th; Recent Milestone Hit

MDN will not publish on Friday, Sept. 13. Hey, it’s Friday the 13th! No, we’re not superstitious (at least too much). We do have a memory that ties in with Friday the 13th, which we share below. We’re not publishing because editor Jim Willis is taking a rare day off to spend with family. Jim’s son is taking him to a professional baseball game in Philadelphia, the Mets vs. the Phillies. Jim is a die-hard Mets fan—please don’t hold it against him!

We’d also like to take this opportunity to note a milestone: A few weeks ago, MDN passed the 28,000 posts mark. Yes, there are more than 28,000 articles available on MDN, all of them available to subscribers, spanning from January 2009 to the present. Read More “MDN Housekeeping – Off Friday the 13th; Recent Milestone Hit”

Other Stories of Interest: Thu, Sep 12, 2024

MARCELLUS/UTICA REGION: First-responder training focusing on O&G industry available; OTHER U.S. REGIONS: Texas LNG announces additional offtake sufficient for FID; Rising interest in Gulf Coast natural gas storage spurs a slew of projects; NATIONAL: Google locks in carbon removal at $100 a ton; Retail electricity prices closely tracked inflation over the last 10 years; Harris tells a fracking howler; INTERNATIONAL: Growing biomethane on peat emits 3X more CO2 than using natgas; GALACTIC: What’s behind the Martian methane mystery? Read More “Other Stories of Interest: Thu, Sep 12, 2024”