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16 New Shale Well Permits Reported for PA-OH-WV Sep 21 – 27
October 2, 2026October 2, 2026

The Marcellus/Utica region received 16 new drilling permits last week, September 21 – 27, down 1 from the 17 permits issued two weeks ago. Pennsylvania issued 6 of the new permits. Ohio also issued 1 new permit. And West Virginia issued 9 new permits. The drillers who received new permits last week were: Antero Resources, Ascent Resources, Beech Resources, Expand Energy, and Range Resources. Read More “16 New Shale Well Permits Reported for PA-OH-WV Sep 21 – 27”
Exporting | Industrywide Issues | Pipelines

IER Wants Canadian Oil and Gas Counted as American-Made
October 2, 2026October 2, 2026

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Here’s an argument you don’t hear every day: the oil and natural gas the United States buys from Canada shouldn’t count as “imports” at all. That’s the case laid out in a new report from the Institute for Energy Research (IER), published September 18. Change how Washington keeps the books, IER argues, and the alarming-sounding trade deficit with Canada very nearly disappears — no tariffs, no trade war, just honest accounting. Read More “IER Wants Canadian Oil and Gas Counted as American-Made”
AI | Electrical Generation | Industrywide Issues | Ohio

Two TV Takes on Data Centers: Texas Anger, Ohio Common Sense
October 2, 2026October 2, 2026

Sunday (two weeks ago) was a two-for-one day on television for anyone following the data center fight. CBS’s 60 Minutes ran a 13-minute segment from Texas showing just how furious rural Americans have become about the AI buildout landing in their backyards. Hours earlier on Fox & Friends Weekend, Ohio gubernatorial candidate Vivek Ramaswamy laid out a plan that, frankly, answers nearly every complaint 60 Minutes aired. Watch them back-to-back (both are embedded below), and you get the problem and the solution in about 25 minutes. Read More “Two TV Takes on Data Centers: Texas Anger, Ohio Common Sense”
Economic Impact | Energy Companies | Industrywide Issues | Jobs | Repsol

Shale Insight: The People Who Stayed Because of the Marcellus
October 2, 2026October 2, 2026

For our final Shale Insight 2026 post, we set aside prices, pipelines, and permits and focus on people. Speakers in Erie told stories about boilermakers told six years ago to retrain for renewables who are now building the country’s largest gas-fired power campus, and about dairy farm kids in Bradford County who never thought they could afford a house and now run Repsol’s Marcellus operations. It was a reminder of who shale is really for. Read More “Shale Insight: The People Who Stayed Because of the Marcellus”
Industrywide Issues | Research

EIA Traces 250 Years of U.S. Energy Use: From Firewood to Fracking
October 2, 2026October 2, 2026

Every so often the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) publishes something that deserves to be printed out and taped to the wall. This is one of those. To mark America’s 250th, EIA charted the entire history of U.S. energy consumption — from 1776 firewood to 2025 shale gas — and two Pennsylvania milestones show up along the way: Edwin Drake’s first commercial oil well at Titusville in 1859, and the nation’s first full-scale commercial nuclear plant, which came online in the Keystone State in 1957. Read More “EIA Traces 250 Years of U.S. Energy Use: From Firewood to Fracking”