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Columbia Gas Open Season for Extra 500 MMcf/d of M-U Capacity in OH
Existing pipelines in the Marcellus/Utica region are testing the market for expansion. Two weeks ago, we told you that DT Midstream (50% owner of NEXUS Pipeline) is eyeing the growing AI data center market in northwestern Ohio as a customer for M-U molecules that flow through NEXUS (see DT Midstream Eyes Data Center/Power Market for NEXUS Pipeline). Now comes the news that TC Energy, the owner of the Columbia Gas Transmission (CGT) pipeline network, is conducting a non-binding open season to expand CGT capacity in Ohio, including in Columbus, Toledo, Lima, and other locations. Read More “Columbia Gas Open Season for Extra 500 MMcf/d of M-U Capacity in OH”
Last week, we brought you the fantastic news that the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) carbon tax scheme in Pennsylvania is officially dead with the adoption of the 4-month late state budget (see 
Repsol S.A. is a Spanish multinational energy and petrochemical company based in Madrid. It is engaged in worldwide upstream and downstream activities. In the 2022 Forbes Global 2000, Repsol was ranked as the 320th-largest public company in the world. As of 2022, it has 24,000 employees worldwide. Repsol, with shares traded on the Spanish Stock Exchange, has major assets around the world. It also has approximately 214,000 net acres of leased land (with wells) in the Marcellus Shale, primarily located in northeastern Pennsylvania, specifically in Bradford, Susquehanna, and Tioga counties. Repsol is considering a “reverse merger” of its upstream assets (worth $19 billion) with APA (formerly Apache, a Permian oil driller), according to super-secret sources whispering to Bloomberg. 
In August, MDN told you that Black Bear Transmission (BBT), the owner of nine regulated short pipeline transmission systems in the Southeastern U.S. totaling approximately 1,700 miles of pipeline, with a throughput capacity of about 2.6 billion cubic feet per day (Bcf/d), was selling itself to Enstor Pipeline Holdings, LLC, for an undisclosed sum (see 
Last week, the Baker Hughes U.S. national rig count gained rigs for the second week in a row. The national count increased by one rig, rising from 548 to 549. The BH rig count has added rigs in four of the last five weeks. Rigs in the Marcellus/Utica remained the same last week at a combined 37, the same number for seven weeks in a row. Pennsylvania remained unchanged at 17 active rigs (seven weeks in a row). Ohio was the same at 13 rigs (eight weeks in a row). And West Virginia maintained its 7 rigs, which it has operated since May 30 (25 weeks in a row). There were 23 rigs targeting the Marcellus and 14 targeting the Utica. 
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