Best of the Rest

The “best of the rest”–stories that caught MDN’s eye that you may be interested in reading: Time to contain the sand blowing around Stowe; what DRBC should be doing instead of playing fracking games; bust doesn’t always follow oil and gas boom; US refineries running at near-record levels; new video – Putin’s useful American eco-idiots; top 5 industry shifts fueling the future of drilling; frackers burn cash to keep the oil boom going; China cuts off nose to spite its won face re LNG tariffs; and more!
Read More “Energy Stories of Interest: Tue, Aug 14, 2018”

The “best of the rest”–stories that caught MDN’s eye that you may be interested in reading: Eight permits awarded in OH Utica last week; another surcharge on your PA gas bill?; WV gas industry pushing for electric plants; fracking industry in Pittsburgh offers a different sort of high-tech job; WVU shale lab digs into M-U permeability testing; water company ordered to pay back wages; Cheniere inks 25-year deal with Taiwan; Toshiba looks to unload US LNG contracts; Bank of the West turns hostile to fossil fuel industry; Solaris Oilfield hires former Range Resources COO for board; and more!
Read More “Energy Stories of Interest: Mon, Aug 13, 2018”

The “best of the rest”–stories that caught MDN’s eye that you may be interested in reading: Local natgas projects need to be stopped–from a loon in Ithaca; drilling for miles in the Marcellus – laterals reach new lengths; non-impact uses of impact fee money in PA; WV House panel vots to impeach entire WV Supreme Court; pipeline getting expanded in Maine; trade war spooks oil and gas exports; natgas storage numbers still down, but prices remain the same; energy conference calls climate change “fake”; EU wants US to cut red tape for LNG exports; Nigeria – the next natgas giant?; and more!
Read More “Energy Stories of Interest: Fri, Aug 10, 2018”

The “best of the rest”–stories that caught MDN’s eye that you may be interested in reading: Repurposing existing pipelines is safe AND necessary; Roanoke radical activist booted from state board following misuse of credentials to protest pipeline; why your family left New York (and other families are too); China LNG tariffs may affect Permian oil drilling; shale drillers boosting capital expenditures this year; investment advisory firms outed as political hucksters trying to pressure fossil fuel companies; Goldman Sachs tries to buy tanker full of LNG; Russians producing more LNG from Arctic; the shale boom that will never happen, in Mexico; and more!
Read More “Energy Stories of Interest: Thu, Aug 9, 2018”

The “best of the rest”–stories that caught MDN’s eye that you may be interested in reading: Chevron Appalachia president says to seize the day now, or lose out; PA teachers union invests $211M in Williams; S&B Engineers moves to larger office in Canonsburg; Enbridge says NEXUS Pipeline will go online by end of 3Q; gov candidate Wagner backpedals (a little) on climate change hoax; EIA natgas price forecast “sags” this year and next; WSJ article says to quit blaming “climate change” for every weather event; and more!
Read More “Energy Stories of Interest: Wed, Aug 8, 2018”

The “best of the rest”–stories that caught MDN’s eye that you may be interested in reading: Chesapeake leaving OH, but not done drilling yet; IOGA WV chief says future natgas prices flat; Rochester, NY industrial park celebrates converting from coal to natgas; national rig count down by 4, 3 of them in WV; high paying Utica jobs for the taking; NC county considers voting against MVP pipeline; new national natgas coalition forms; what to expect in natgas usage by power plants in August; and more!
Read More “Energy Stories of Interest: Tue, Aug 7, 2018”

The “best of the rest”–stories that caught MDN’s eye that you may be interested in reading: Virtual pipeline trucks face backlash from antis in Otsego County, NY; Luzerne County gets 2 new CNG buses; unions bash NYC Mayor de Blasio over fossil fuel divestment; 7 people injured in pipeline explosion in Texas; natgas price spike predicted yet again; Energy Transfer CEO says a “monkey” can make money in pipeline biz; China slaps US LNG imports with 25% tariff; despite “trade war,” US LNG exports boom to new record highs; and more!
Read More “Energy Stories of Interest: Mon, Aug 6, 2018”

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”