Best of the Rest

The “best of the rest”–stories that caught MDN’s eye that you may be interested in reading: WV #1 in economic growth for 2017 – thx to shale; push on for 4-lane highway between Columbus & Pittsburgh; Porter Wright adds energy partner in Pittsburgh; Permian drillers beginning to use LNG to power rigs; lessons from country’s largest wind farm project (now canceled); EIA storage report may lead to higher prices; ETE buying ETP in $27B all-unit deal; and more!
Read More “Energy Stories of Interest: Fri, Aug 3, 2018”

The “best of the rest”–stories that caught MDN’s eye that you may be interested in reading: Shale gas saving PA on energy costs; Earthworks’ failure highlights perception vs reality in OH; CELDF back to selling bill of goods in Columbus; why does Geisinger continue to advance fractivist junk science?; shale reality check; Trump’s vision for world energy dominance under threat; gas prices will remain low for foreseeable future; 7 things to know about EPA’s Acting Administrator Andrew Wheeler; Rick Perry says U.S. net energy exporter in 18 months; Mexico to commit fracking suicide with ban; and more!
Read More “Energy Stories of Interest: Thu, Aug 2, 2018”

The “best of the rest”–stories that caught MDN’s eye that you may be interested in reading: Sulfur dioxide emissions in M-U plung thx to shale; Hilcorp seeks 3 new Utica permits in Columbiana County; cleaning up NY’s peakers; Forge the Future Summit meets in Pittsburgh; SCANA approves merger with Dominion; Greenpeace launches propane-fueled blimp…to protest fossil fuels (dopes); Wisconsin frac sand wars; Florida power plant gets key backing; Williams adds former NY State investment guru to board; Europe won’t buy US LNG, but Europeans might; cities suing Big Oil should worry about damage awards from tossed lawsuits; 500 fewer wells getting drilled in Canada this year; Kuwait wants a $1.1B loan–for shale drilling; and more!
Read More “Energy Stories of Interest: Wed, Aug 1, 2018”

The “best of the rest”–stories that caught MDN’s eye that you may be interested in reading: UGI CNG filling station will lower customer natgas bills; Pittsburgh energy attorney nominated by Trump for U.S. District judge seat in PA; judge dismisses San Fran’s climate lawsuit because global warming is a global issue; U.S. energy costs are going down, thx to shale; U.S. crude oil production/exports hit record highs; U.S. GDP through the roof thx to shale; Supreme Court refuses to toss children’s climate lawsuit; Congress wants to give FERC workers a raise; Saudi-Russia mega cartel just a pipe dream; Europe pledges to take more U.S. gas; and more!
Read More “Energy Stories of Interest: Tue, Jul 31, 2018”

The “best of the rest”–stories that caught MDN’s eye that you may be interested in reading: MDS raises $31.5M, opens Pittsburgh branch office; Polymer Alliance Zone adds 2 more WV counties; VA Dems ask gov to block pipelines; MVP protester sentenced to jail; natgas boom pays off for Doddridge, WV schools; how BP found shale profits with “crystal ball”; the U.S. is still global natgas king; when will fractivists apologize?; the next round of U.S. LNG export terminals; is digitization living up to hype for oil & gas?; Trump says Europe to buy boatloads of LNG; and more!
Read More “Energy Stories of Interest: Mon, Jul 30, 2018”

The “best of the rest”–stories that caught MDN’s eye that you may be interested in reading: Beaver Community College gets another $1M to help train cracker plant workers; BP pays $10.5B for BHP Billiton’s U.S. shale assets; residents in Virginia worry solar farm will hurt the environment; energy companies (falsely) praise carbon tax bill; acting EPA administrator challenges Big Corn; US natgas storage increases, prices stay the same; new pipeline testing tool from Baker Hughes; heatwave tests the limits of so-called renewables; the regulation that could push oil to $200/barrel; and more!
Read More “Energy Stories of Interest: Fri, Jul 27, 2018”

The “best of the rest”–stories that caught MDN’s eye that you may be interested in reading: Shell opening another parking lot for 1,000 cracker workers; CSX fined $2.2M for 2015 WV crude by rail spill; Bloom Energy IPO vs Tesla’s IPO – natgas the key; new pipelines lead to 5 Bcf/d of natgas exports to Mexico for first time; update on MLPs; the Love Boat orders two LNG cruise ships; India amends definition of hydrocarbon to include shale; European Union says it will import more US shale; and more!
Read More “Energy Stories of Interest: Thu, Jul 26, 2018”

The “best of the rest”–stories that caught MDN’s eye that you may be interested in reading: PA health officials hand out potassium iodide pills to those living near nuke plants; Luzerne County can’t find enough uses for shale impact fee money; Marcellus industry finding it hard to fill some jobs; Senators support DOE small-scale LNG export regs; Big Oil rewards shareholders; new horizontal directional drilling software from Technical Toolboxes; oil majors are stepping up their natgas game; use gas flaring to pull water from the atmosphere; Halliburton buys chemical company; Google thinks it can better manage o&g data than o&g companies can; Cuadrilla gets OK to frack first well in UK; and more!…
Read More “Energy Stories of Interest: Wed, Jul 25, 2018”

The “best of the rest”–stories that caught MDN’s eye that you may be interested in reading: Baltimore files doomed climate lawsuit day after NYC’s lawsuit is tossed; Columbia Gas spending $29M on gas line replacements in central OH; CNX donates property for bats; federal court rules in favor of WV refinery against EPA; California tells residents to turn the AC off and the lights out; EPA under Scott Pruitt cut $350M in regulations; Halliburton sees slowdown coming in second half of 2018; NYC teen protesters learned about climate change from cartoons; enviro do-goodism the new religious cult of Millennials; how fracking revolution broke OPEC’s hold on oil prices; and more!
Read More “Energy Stories of Interest: Tue, Jul 24, 2018”

The “best of the rest”–stories that caught MDN’s eye that you may be interested in reading: Naive, miseducated students rally in Pittsburgh re “climate change”; as pipelines come online, more efficient movement of our gas boosts industry; Appalachian storage hub, prosperity’s next step; Molinaro’s call for fracking is hopeful for Upstate NY; a recycled story about Utica fracking causing STDs; Cabot’s Q2 is going to “knock your socks off”; NY ratepayers to fund offshore wind farm, not get access to the electricity; Rice Midstream OKs merger with EQT Midstream; FERC policy throws a lifeline to MLPs; what is digitization and why is it good for o&g; and more!
Read More “Energy Stories of Interest: Mon, Jul 23, 2018”

The “best of the rest”–stories that caught MDN’s eye that you may be interested in reading: We need a serious conversation about laws to control pipeline siting; Heinz Endowments funds radical fractivist attorneys; WV program offers students energy education; Massachusetts fracking ban in hypocritical–in the extreme; FERC’s natgas pipeline greenhouse gas analysis policy; oilfield services companies looking to other countries for new growth; FERC collaborating with other agencies on speedier LNG export permits; new tax rule adopted by FERC for pipelines; China sits on world’s biggest shale gas prize; sanctions for Russian pipeline colluders; and more!
Read More “Energy Stories of Interest: Fri, Jul 20, 2018”

The “best of the rest”–stories that caught MDN’s eye that you may be interested in reading: Cuomo’s Republican opponent is lukewarm on fracking; will NEXUS Pipeline bring promised tax windfall for OH schools?; Chambersburg, PA gets grant to add new gas pipeline; Altoona happy with CNG buses; Permian natgas prices fall as production grows; two new pipelines from Permian into Mexico; sleazy lawyers trying to score billions from climate lawsuits; Rusty Braziel appointed to serve on Natl Petroleum Council; drillers worldwide flared less natgas in 2017, but not in the U.S.; Powelson talks about decision to leave FERC: Baker Hughes selling a piece of the company; and more!
Read More “Energy Stories of Interest: Thu, Jul 19, 2018”

The “best of the rest”–stories that caught MDN’s eye that you may be interested in reading: Rig count drops in OH Utica as production rises; turnaround in WV construction jobs thx to shale; WV state officials must work to protect China deal; spotlight on Chevron’s head of Marcellus/Utica, Stacey Olsen; MDN called out by Athens News for supporting Scott Pruitt; America’s oil & gas boom is spreading; the future of energy is U.S. natgas; cybersecurity threats growing; FERC denies LNG approval delays; Trump & Putin; and more!
Read More “Energy Stories of Interest: Wed, Jul 18, 2018”

The “best of the rest”–stories that caught MDN’s eye that you may be interested in reading: NY farmers think about what might have been; Cynthia Nixon (with with no brain) says “we must shut down the pipeline”; hydrocarbon hypocrisy in NY; PA, OH, WV rig count stays the same; Bakken boom time again; DiFi sells out to radicals in her own party, now supports frack ban; Cuadrilla completes second shale well, waiting to frack; why Big Oil can’t prevent a supply crunch; and more!
Read More “Energy Stories of Interest: Tue, Jul 17, 2018”

The “best of the rest”–stories that caught MDN’s eye that you may be interested in reading: New date for PA impoundments to register, comply with regs; time to comment on PA revised regs for erosion & sedimentation control at drilling sites; Earthworks releases Ohio air quality “study” with no actual air quality data; California continues to slip, now #6 producer of oil in the U.S.; Cali cities desperately try to avoid counterlawsuit from Exxon; surge in drilled natgas wells; U.S. on pace for “record smashing” oil and gas year in 2018; natural gas prices melt; Trump exposes Germany’s natgas hypocrisy; and more!
Read More “Energy Stories of Interest: Mon, Jul 16, 2018”

The “best of the rest”–stories that caught MDN’s eye that you may be interested in reading: PA Gov Wolf pushing special interest solar ripoff; OH State Senator urges Congress to support Appalachian storage hub; PA gov candidate Wagner supports natgas at town hall; largest CNG fueling station in Columbus opens; why sand from this Texas town is worth $80/ton; green radicals served with subpoenas in Colo.; natgas-fired electricity may hit new high this summer; Kavanaugh’s record on regs, pipelines, LNG and more; Trump plan to replace Obama climate plan makes progress; OPEC chief says he’s glad shale came along; and more!
Read More “Energy Stories of Interest: Thu, Jul 12, 2018”