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Kentucky House Votes to End Eminent Domain for Bluegrass Pipeline

The Bluegrass natural gas liquids (NGL) pipeline is a $1.5 billion project that will stretch from the Utica/Marcellus all the way to Gulf Coast. It’s being built by Williams and Boardwalk Pipeline Partners and as of last October the joint venture partners held an open season and said everything is on track for a 2015…

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Paret Mining Buys 10K Acres of Leases, 150 O&G Wells in Kentucky

We spotted a press release about a “wealthy Haitian-American businessman” buying “a vast 10,000-acre oil reserve in Bowling Green Kentucky.” What caught our eye was the location and the extra detail that the assets purchased included “150 oil and natural gas wells.” A few bells began to go off for us. Kentucky is not known…

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Encore Energy Provides Update for Shale Oil Drilling in Kentucky

Kentucky is not known as a hotbed of shale drilling activity. The Marcellus/Utica does not extend under the Bluegrass State. However, as we wrote about back in 2017, Kentucky does have the Berea Sandstone which contains oil deposits (see Fracking Comes to Kentucky – Encore Drills First Horizontal Oil Wells). In 2017 we brought you…

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Diversified Gas & Oil Plays Big Role in Kentucky O&G Industry

Diversified Gas & Oil (DGO) is a fascinating company (see our DGO stories here). DGO’s strategy is to buy wells in “the long tail.” That is, wells already drilled with production far along the decline curve, but wells that will continue to produce small amounts for years to come. In October, DGO CEO Rusty Hutson,…

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Catalyst to Restart Drilling Program in Kentucky Using Shale Tech

There’s only so much you can cram into a 65 character headline. We wanted to say more. Catalyst Energy was, until 2017 (when it quit drilling new wells) a conventional-only oil driller focused mainly on western Pennsylvania. It quit drilling due to low oil prices. Catalyst has just announced that, pending the outcome of a…

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Opposition to Kinder Morgan NGL Pipeline Plan Builds in Kentucky

What is it about Kentucky? Is everybody in the Bluegrass State allergic to NGL (natural gas liquids) pipelines? Another government official, this time the mayor of Lexington, is the latest (in a long list) to oppose Kinder Morgan’s plan to convert part of their Tennessee Gas Pipeline to flow NGLs–called the Utica Marcellus Texas Pipeline…

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Kentucky County Suing to Stop TGP from Reversing Pipeline for NGLs

In February MDN told you that Kentucky antis went to court to try and block a plan by Kinder Morgan to convert a portion of the Tennessee Gas Pipeline that flows natural gas from the Gulf Coast to the northeast, to reverse the pipeline and flow natural gas liquids from the Marcellus/Utica region to the…

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Kentucky Antis File Lawsuit to Stop TGP NGL Pipe Reversal

Kentucky antis have gone to court to try and block a plan by Kinder Morgan to convert a portion of the Tennessee Gas Pipeline that flows natural gas from the Gulf Coast to the northeast, to reverse the pipeline and flow natural gas liquids from the Marcellus/Utica region to the Gulf. Part of the 964-mile…

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FERC Frustrates Kentucky Radicals Seeking to Stop TGP Pipe Reversal

What’s in the water in Kentucky? Seems to be a state full of anti-drilling, anti-pipeline nutters. Kentucky has been responsible for killing at least one pipeline, the Bluegrass Pipeline that would have flowed Marcellus/Utica NGLs (natural gas liquids) all the way to the Gulf Coast (see Bluegrass Pipeline Aborted Before It was Born – RIP)….

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Fracking Comes to Kentucky – Encore Drills First Horizontal Oil Wells

Kentucky is an interesting state with respect to the oil and gas industry. Historically there has been a fair amount of conventional (vertical only) drilling for oil and gas in the state. Over the past few years there have been a number of gas and petrochemical projects in the state (see our Kentucky stories here)….

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Bluegrass Pipeline Aborted Before It was Born – RIP

Is it time to declare the Bluegrass Pipeline dead? It certainly appears that way. The Bluegrass, you may recall, was a $1.5 billion joint venture between Williams and Boardwalk Pipeline Partners project that would have piped natural gas liquids (NGLs, mostly ethane) from the Utica/Marcellus all the way to Gulf Coast for processing and sale….

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Kentucky Fracking One Step Closer: Commission Considers 1st Permit

In January, MDN told you that shale drilling/fracking may soon come to Kentucky (see Fracking on the Way in the Bluegrass State? Quite Possibly). Several weeks ago the Kentucky Oil and Gas Conservation Commission, a group that “rarely meets” (last meeting was in 2006) held a meeting to consider granting Kentucky’s very first deep horizontal…

Fracking on the Way in the Bluegrass State? Quite Possibly

What’s this…fracking in Kentucky?? Maybe! No, it’s not the Marcellus or Utica Shale. Actually, the Marcellus underlies a small sliver of Kentucky where the state shares a border with West Virginia and Virginia–but no one is interested in fracking the Marcellus there. The shale play that’s driven “hundreds” of new leases to be signed in…

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Lancaster OH Commissioner Says Bluegrass Pipeline was Trigger-Happy

Lancaster (Fairfield County), OH Commissioner Steve Davis is also an attorney who represents landowners who sign leases to allow pipelines to cross their property. Davis has been around the block a few times and has brokered numerous deals with different pipeline companies–so he’s well qualified to offer an opinion about the now delayed, and possibly…

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Williams Stops Work on Bluegrass Pipeline, Boardwalk Says “It’s Not Dead”

Really big news that affects drilling throughout the Marcellus and Utica Shale region: Williams announced yesterday they are suspending work on the Bluegrass Pipeline, a $1.5 billion project that would have piped natural gas liquids (NGLs) from the Utica/Marcellus all the way to Gulf Coast for processing and sale. Looks like we now know who…

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Boardwalk Talks About Bluegrass: That’s My Story and I’m Sticking to It

Yesterday Boardwalk Pipeline Partners held an analyst call to update investors on their first quarter 2014 performance. As we wrote about a few months ago, Boardwalk’s stock fell off a cliff (down 50%) and is just now beginning to inch it’s way back up the cliff (see Serious Concerns about Boardwalk Pipeline Partners Continue). Yesterday’s…