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MARCELLUS/UTICA REGION: DRBC lobbies a member state to oppose HB 827 economic justice bill; PA PUC approves gas pipeline expansion plan for Bradford County; NATIONAL: EIA expects less electricity to come from coal this summer as natural gas, renewables rise; 2018 was likely the most profitable year for U.S. oil producers since 2013; Big oil goes big green; INTERNATIONAL: Pieridae: Goldboro LNG unaffected by share price drop.
Read More “Energy Stories of Interest: Fri, May 10, 2019”

MARCELLUS/UTICA REGION: Ohio’s oil and gas industry offers a wide variety of career opportunities; Exelon to close Pennsylvania Three Mile Island nuclear plant in September; Michael Bloomberg is paying a climate prosecutor $125,000 to work ‘pro bono’ for Maryland’s AG; NATIONAL: U.S. energy consumption, production, and exports reach record highs in 2018; The shale revolution isn’t just about cheap energy, it’s changing geopolitics; Once-key data about natural gas loses clout; Clean Energy inks slew of natural gas contracts nationwide; Trump’s misguided U-turn on the Jones Act; INTERNATIONAL: Natural gas vehicles likely to account for 50 pc of total new sales by 2030.
Read More “Energy Stories of Interest: Thu, May 9, 2019”

MARCELLUS/UTICA REGION: Shut down Mariner East II, for good; NYC Comptroller Scott Stringer calls on Con Ed to prove NESE is necessary; OTHER U.S. REGIONS: Pipeline protesters could face 10 years in prison under bill OK’d by Texas House; Venture Global LNG achieves regulatory milestone for Plaquemines LNG, Delta LNG export project; NJ gets ready to commit energy suicide; NATIONAL: 2020 Dems take extreme positions on oil & gas development; Flex LNG to list shares on New York Stock Exchange; LaFleur says climate split is harming FERC’s work; Will Chevron come over the top to buy Anadarko?; Chevron should walk away from Anadarko deal; Activist investor urges Carrizo Oil & Gas to sell; INTERNATIONAL: ‘Freedom gas’: US opens LNG floodgates to Europe.
Read More “Energy Stories of Interest: Wed, May 8, 2019”

MARCELLUS/UTICA REGION: Cabot Oil & Gas rises after hedge fund names it a top pick; NY State Laborer’s ad seeks to boost NESE pipeline; OTHER U.S. REGIONS: President Trump to tour natural gas facility in Cameron Parish next week; Winklevosses, Bain eye gas-powered data centers to fix US gas glut; Key state certification denied for SW Oregon LNG export project; NATIONAL: Agencies call for increased US LNG deliveries to EU; Optimism at OTC as offshore industry shows signs of improvement; Factors affecting feedgas demand and LNG exports in 2019; Bad climate data leads to wrong conclusions (video); Trump’s steel tariffs stand in way of next US shale revolution; INTERNATIONAL: Poland eyes second LNG import terminal; The reason renewables can’t power modern civilization is because they were never meant to.
Read More “Energy Stories of Interest: Tue, May 7, 2019”

MARCELLUS/UTICA REGION: Southwestern Energy helps restore West Virginia’s Cheat River; PA Auditor General DePasquale to hold May 13 climate hearing at Widener University; Pennsylvania youth join global student strike to demand action on climate change; ODNR issues 10 permits in Utica Shale; OTHER U.S. REGIONS: Piedmont Natural Gas picks builder for North Carolina LNG facility; Energy Transfer, Shell issue EPC invite for Lake Charles LNG project; NATIONAL: ‘I believe in suing everybody:’ Activists double down on climate litigation; The number of drilled but uncompleted wells in the United States continues to climb; Top 20 oil companies improved cash flow by $34 billion; Only six TSA staffers are overseeing US oil & gas pipeline security; INTERNATIONAL: Occidental inks $8.8 billion deal to sell Anadarko’s African oil and gas assets to Total; OPEC is ‘likely to collapse,’ warns Iran’s oil minister.
Read More “Energy Stories of Interest: Mon, May 6, 2019”

OTHER U.S. REGIONS: Tellurian’s Driftwood LNG wins non-FTA export approval from DOE; Shell not ‘desperate’ to grow US shale despite Anadarko sale; NATIONAL: Net injections into working natural gas in the Lower 48 states totaled 123 Bcf; FERC holds the line on one-year limit for state review of Clean Water Act certifications for interstate natural gas pipelines; Paying too much for natural gas? Thank the Jones Act.; Fossil fuel tax breaks would get killed under Senate bill; American LNG positioned to win with IMO 2020; INTERNATIONAL: Activists call for halt on U.S. LNG shipments to Europe despite growing demand; US to EU: Our liquefied natural gas is more reliable than Russia’s; Europe’s imports of American natural gas are soaring.
Read More “Energy Stories of Interest: Fri, May 3, 2019”

MARCELLUS/UTICA REGION: Appalachian Basin’s methane emissions fall despite increase in gas production; Coalition pushes for natural gas pipeline project; Capitalize on natural gas opportunities; OTHER U.S. REGIONS: McDermott expects Cameron LNG ‘fully online’ by 2020 as timetable slips; Enterprise’s Lumberjack pipeline to expand Haynesville gas takeaway; NATIONAL: One in four U.S. homes is all electric; INTERNATIONAL: US natural gas exports to Europe surge nearly 300%.
Read More “Energy Stories of Interest: Thu, May 2, 2019”

MARCELLUS/UTICA REGION: Is there something rotten in Dinniman country?; Senate Environmental Committee unanimously OKs renomination of Dunn as DCNR Secretary; War on natural gas will stunt economy, crush working class; OTHER U.S. REGIONS: Baker Hughes chooses Permian Basin to debut ‘electric frack’ technology; NATIONAL: BP is not on the hunt for US oil and gas deals, says CEO Bob Dudley; Warren Buffett backs Occidental’s bid for Anadarko with $10 billion investment; More U.S. LNG export projects moving toward FID; Hypothesis: Radical Greens are the great killers of our age; INTERNATIONAL: Brent could hit $100 on ‘unprecedented’ undersupply in 2020; Britain’s shale resignation; Stung by Trump’s criticisms of Russian gas deal, Germany makes its own threats; David Attenborough, dead bats and how radical Green propaganda relies on tragedy porn.
Read More “Energy Stories of Interest: Wed, May 1, 2019”

MARCELLUS/UTICA REGION: Correcting the record about the severance tax; New York State bans offshore oil and gas drilling; OTHER U.S. REGIONS: Anadarko’s weak performance in U.S. Permian made it a takeover target; Natural gas prices down to zero at Waha Hub; NATIONAL: Increased natural gas production, interregional flows mitigate withdrawals from storage during winter 2018-19; SEC freezes assets over suspected insider trading in Anadarko; INTERNATIONAL: Panama Canal expansion allows more transits of propane and other hydrocarbon gas liquids; WorleyParsons changes name after £2.4bn acquisition of Jacobs ECR.
Read More “Energy Stories of Interest: Tue, Apr 30, 2019”

MARCELLUS/UTICA REGION: Poll finds Pennsylvanians uninformed about nuke proposal, skeptical when educated; OTHER U.S. REGIONS: Trucks playing larger role in LNG deliveries from Texas; NATIONAL: New Nature study affirms the climate benefits of increased natural gas use; Halliburton’s taking its foot off the gas in the shale industry; Schlumberger’s slow revenue growth could cause problems; Dakota Access company bought up dozens of anti-pipeline URLs; SNG (Solidified Natural Gas) technology for gas storage; The many factors influencing LPG export volumes; INTERNATIONAL: UK’s shale gas commissioner quits over ‘de facto’ fracing ban; Saudi Aramco sees shale gas as Kingdom’s next energy bonanza.
Read More “Energy Stories of Interest: Mon, Apr 29, 2019”

MARCELLUS/UTICA REGION: PennDOT audit finds $4.2 billion diverted from repairing roads, bridges; Group of PA lawmakers introduce package of bills to trim state’s 153,000 regulations; Congressman Scott Perry: Natural gas the ‘Green New Deal of the last 10 to 15 years’; Leaders celebrate start-up of new MarkWest plant, largest natural gas facility in nation; Antero Resources sets new 12-month stock price low at $7.31; OTHER U.S. REGIONS: Tellurian works on financing in tandem with equity partnerships for Driftwood LNG; NATIONAL: 7 more things you need to know about Oxy’s new bid for Anadarko; Occidental CEO says she will prevail in bidding war for sought-after oil driller Anadarko; Trump’s removal of this 100-year old law is good news for natural gas; Natural gas and the electric power sector: What are the latest trends?; Methane emissions intensity declines in top shale basins; INTERNATIONAL: America wants to challenge rogue petrostates.
Read More “Energy Stories of Interest: Fri, Apr 26, 2019”

MARCELLUS/UTICA REGION: Push for I-68 expansion in Marshall County continuing; Ohio shale investment hits $74 billion since 2011; CNX to hold a virtual annual meeting; WV businesses represented at Ohio Valley Regional Oil and Gas Expo; Penn State researcher named to Colombian commission on shale energy development; Time to act on natural gas; New York’s Green New Deal will slash red meat in city facilities by 50%; OTHER U.S. REGIONS: Biomass follies — Austin, Texas is the latest city to find it isn’t easy being green; NATIONAL: More U.S. LNG export projects moving toward FID; Oil and gas workers among the best paid in America; Americans need more oil and natural gas pipelines; INTERNATIONAL: WoodMac: LNG industry heading into $200 bln Capex boom; Polish LNG terminal expansion co-financing deal signed.
Read More “Energy Stories of Interest: Thu, Apr 25, 2019”

MARCELLUS/UTICA REGION: Senate Enviro Committee to consider renominations of McDonnell (DEP), Dunn (DCNR); Pennsylvania utility regulator speaks out against state Senate’s nuclear bailout bill; OTHER U.S. REGIONS: ‘Ramifications for gas markets’ as nuclear subsidies approved in New Jersey; NATIONAL: Celebrate Fossil Fuel Appreciation Day; U.S. shale DUC wells: Time bombs waiting to go off on OPEC?; Amid the furor of the Green New Deal, don’t overlook the shale revolution; Elizabeth Warren has a lot of bad ideas, but her anti-drilling plan might be the worst; TruStar CNG fueling milestone underscores ‘success story’ of natural gas; U.S. exports transform NGL markets; Unreliable nature of solar and wind makes electricity much more expensive, major new study finds; Pulitzer Prize administrator defends process after prize goes to board member’s wife; INTERNATIONAL: ExxonMobil agrees 20-year LNG deal with China’s Zhejiang Energy.
Read More “Energy Stories of Interest: Tue, Apr 23, 2019”

MARCELLUS/UTICA REGION: PA Sen. Gene Yaw critical of Energy Transfer at industry event; False alarm – no leak in Sunoco pipeline near Philadelphia; FirstEnergy’s supposed ‘green new deal’ to bail out nuclear plants is really just a political deal; Columbia Gas employees celebrate Earth Day with cleanup in Beaver County; ODNR issues 13 permits in Utica Shale; Gov. Tom Wolf visits Marietta in long-shot push for tax on natural gas drillers; OTHER U.S. REGIONS: Port Arthur LNG given green light to start construction; FERC approves Driftwood LNG construction; The Permian-driven shale boom is slowing, and that’s OK; NATIONAL: Elizabeth Warren’s green mistake; DLA awards natural gas supply contracts to four firms; U.S. oil, natural gas prices racing in opposite directions; Why are natural gas prices crashing?; INTERNATIONAL: Cuadrilla ‘ready to frack’ at second well in Lancashire as pressure on embattled industry builds; Qatar Petroleum issues 100 LNG carriers build invite; Russia and China close to deal on ‘very big’ Arctic projects that would move natural gas.
Read More “Energy Stories of Interest: Mon, Apr 22, 2019”

MARCELLUS/UTICA REGION: DCNR’s EDWIN database of PA oil & gas well information; Gov. Wolf reappoints Gladys Brown Dutrieuille as PUC chairman; OTHER U.S. REGIONS: Gulf LNG gets environmental clearance; Permian activity is firing up but holding back regional natural gas prices; NATIONAL: ExxonKnew activists release manual to eliminate energy industry; Sempra LNG names vice president of engineering; Toshiba to start new bidding round for it US LNG business; Is the natural gas meltdown finally here?; Cramer – Chevron’s Anadarko merger won’t be the only oil deal this year; Emerson’s IoT system enhances shale oil production, monitoring.
Read More “Energy Stories of Interest: Thu, Apr 18, 2019”

MARCELLUS/UTICA REGION: Sen. Casey throws supports behind Gov. Wolf’s Restore PA plan; The war on natural gas stunts our economy, crushes the working class; NYC Mayor de Blasio warns of natgas moratorium consequences; OTHER U.S. REGIONS: Wildcatter Floyd Wilson launches Falconer Oil and Gas Corp.; Colorado governor signs major overhaul of oil and gas rules; Utility may retire McIntosh Unit 3 in favor of natural gas, solar; Yoga mats debut at Texas industry meeting; NATIONAL: Natural Gas Council urges trump to fill vacancies at FERC; The frac sand revolution – “last mile” logistics; INTERNATIONAL: Anti-fossil fuelers go berserk, turn violent in London.
Read More “Energy Stories of Interest: Wed, Apr 17, 2019”