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20 New Shale Well Permits Issued for PA-OH-WV Sep 30 – Oct 6

There were 20 permits issued to drill new shale wells in Marcellus/Utica for the week of Sept. 30 – Oct. 6, down eight from the 28 issued the prior week. The Keystone State (PA) had eight new permits, with five going to Southwestern Energy (now Expand Energy following a merger with Chesapeake) in both Susquehanna and Wyoming counties. The other three permits went to Laurel Mountain Energy for a pad in Butler County. Read More “20 New Shale Well Permits Issued for PA-OH-WV Sep 30 – Oct 6”

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Researchers Find Better/Faster Way to Evaporate Marcellus Brine

It’s good to revisit the basics from time to time. When drilling a shale oil or gas well, each well produces “brine,” a super-salty (minerally) water from the depths that keeps flowing long after the well is drilled and is online. This is not surface water; fresh water found down to about 300 feet. This is another layer of water thousands of feet below the surface. Disposing of brine can be a problem given the minerals in it. A lot of brine is recycled and used again for new drilling and fracking. But what happens when drilling slows down? The water continues to flow out of existing wells and needs proper disposal. Researchers at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, PA, may have a new solution. Read More “Researchers Find Better/Faster Way to Evaporate Marcellus Brine”

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Extra Context re Philly Refinery Fire, Closure, and EPA Fine

Earlier this week, MDN told you about the final chapter in the tragedy of the Philadelphia Energy Solutions (PES) Refining Complex (see Sad Final Chapter to 2019 Philly Oil Refinery Fire: $4.2M Fine). Anti-fossil fuelers are dancing on the grave of the now defunct refinery, celebrating in the final humiliation of a $4.2 million fine by the federal EPA. MDN friend Garland Thompson, a gifted reporter/writer who covers energy and technology issues for US Black Engineer & Information Technology magazine, wrote to us to point out missing facts in recent media coverage of the plant fire and subsequent closure. He provides some much-needed/missing context. Read More “Extra Context re Philly Refinery Fire, Closure, and EPA Fine”

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Satellite Picks Up First Verified Images of Methane & CO2 “Plumes”

Tanager-1

The so-called Carbon Mapper Coalition’s Tanager-1 satellite is off to a good start in selectively choosing fugitive methane and carbon dioxide “plumes” that it measures and maps (looking for needles instead of haystacks). The very first major fugitive methane transgressor picked up by the satellite was…(wait for it)…a landfill in Pakistan! The second plume was a coal-fired power plant belching carbon dioxide (CO2) in…South Africa. Tanager-1 finally got around to sniffing around the relatively clean U.S. and came up with too much methane being emitted from the city of Midland, Texas, in the heart of the Permian Basin. The Texas methane “plume” was 75% smaller than the landfill in Pakistan. Read More “Satellite Picks Up First Verified Images of Methane & CO2 “Plumes””

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Another Peak Shale Oil Prediction – by Respected Investment Advisor

If we had a nickel for every peak oil prediction we’ve reported on over the years, we’d be rich! Every few months, somebody comes along to say that either oil production or oil demand is heading for a decline…real soon now, any day, it’s inevitable. And they list their reasons why we’re hitting peak and about to go into a decline. And every darned time, they’re wrong. We have another such prediction, but this one is a bit different. It comes from an investment advisor writing to other investors on the Seeking Alpha website, an investment advisor whose work we have shared with you in the past. It’s a column from someone whose opinion we respect. Read More “Another Peak Shale Oil Prediction – by Respected Investment Advisor”

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UN’s Guterres Peddles Climate Propaganda & Misinformation in NYC

UN Secretary-General António Guterres, climate fraud

In August, MDN told you about the latest insane utterances from United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, who is demanding the world stop using fossil fuel energy immediately (see Head of UN Goes Berserk, Demands World Stop Using Fossil Fuels Now). Guterres was in Tonga falsely claiming that mankind is causing the oceans to rise. Two months later, Guterres was at it again, this time in New York City for Climate Week a few weeks ago. He was peddling the same tired, old tropes about the earth toasting to a cinder, oceans rising, and other flim-flam and claptrap. Read More “UN’s Guterres Peddles Climate Propaganda & Misinformation in NYC”

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Climate Reporters Have ‘Moral Obligation’ to be Biased, Says Left

We read a story published last week that is frightening. It leaves us speechless, and that’s saying something. Just the News is reporting that the Columbia Journalism Review (CJR) and several other publications and leftwing groups are behind a project called the “Climate Blueprint for Media Transformation,” which encourages reporters to insert climate change into every story and view fossil fuel industry voices as inherently dishonest. The project openly promotes the idea that journalists should NOT be objective when reporting on climate and energy but instead should be biased and revel in their bias. Speechless. Read More “Climate Reporters Have ‘Moral Obligation’ to be Biased, Says Left”

Other Stories of Interest: Fri, Oct 11, 2024

OTHER U.S. REGIONS: Silicon Valley is looking to invest in natural gas; Cheniere sees LNG growth from Asia’s ‘three pillars’ of demand; NATIONAL: ExxonMobil announces major progress in carbon capture project; Henry Hub prices come under downward pressure; U.S. hourly electricity demand peaked in July with widespread heatwaves; Why hasn’t DOE published residential energy costs as required by law? Read More “Other Stories of Interest: Fri, Oct 11, 2024”