Best of the Rest

The “best of the rest”–stories that caught MDN’s eye over the break that you may be interested in reading. In today’s lineup: Roanoke County officials field questions about Mountain Valley Pipe construction; Carroll County gas-fired plant now up and running; Chambersburg, PA gas-fired power plant gets new owner; natgas market update for end of January; cold snap heats up natgas prices; midstream elephants on parade; open letter to EPA’s retired Gina McCarthy; rig count goes up; UK natgas production goes down; and more!
Read More “Marcellus & Utica Shale Story Links: Tue, Jan 30, 2018”

The “best of the rest”–stories that caught MDN’s eye over the break that you may be interested in reading. In today’s lineup: Natgas-fired power plants on the rise in PA; PA Senate Dems introduce bill to cut mythical global warming by 30% by 2025; the TX fracker that cracked the shale code; challenges in funding U.S. shale boom 2.0; NYC Mayor de Blasio admits he’s trying to destroy the fossil fuel industry; DOE Sec. Rick Perry says U.S. shale will not hurt global prices in 2018; and more!
Read More “Marcellus & Utica Shale Story Links: Mon, Jan 29, 2018”

The “best of the rest”–stories that caught MDN’s eye over the break that you may be interested in reading. In today’s lineup: Chevron gives $630,000 for workforce dev programs in PA, WV, OH; PA Senate meeting to consider resolution to end state forest drilling moratorium; re-write of Oil & Gas Act for conventional drillers; Range Resources stock price plunges after 5-year outlook released; highlights from WV IOGA winter meeting; New England to lean more on natgas as coal ends in 2025; cold weather heats up natgas market; they aren’t drilling shale wells like they used to; an unsolvable natural gas dilemma; and more!
Read More “Marcellus & Utica Shale Story Links: Fri, Jan 26, 2018”

The “best of the rest”–stories that caught MDN’s eye over the break that you may be interested in reading. In today’s lineup: Water truck driver dead after tanker truck crash in WV; trouble at the top of Linde Corp; Dela. County looks into risk assessment study for ME2 pipe; NETL in step with Trump; Colorado joining NY and CA in suing big oil; more electric cars mean more coal and natgas; shale oil myth – US flooding the world with condensate; the world’s most critical pipeline; and more!
Read More “Marcellus & Utica Shale Story Links: Thu, Jan 25, 2018”

The “best of the rest”–stories that caught MDN’s eye over the break that you may be interested in reading. In today’s lineup: Lower Burrell to be “thumped” to test for natgas fracking sites; Rex Energy appoints new CFO; January cold weather affects electric generation mix in Northeast; Oklahoma drilling accident deadliest since start of shale boom; water supply shortage limits Sabine Pass LNG export operation; private equity investment going up for o&g; the rigs no one is watching; Singapore’s rising natgas ambitions; and more!
Read More “Marcellus & Utica Shale Story Links: Wed, Jan 24, 2018”

The “best of the rest”–stories that caught MDN’s eye over the break that you may be interested in reading. In today’s lineup: Eclipse closes on Utica acreage in PA; WV business jazzed about Chinese investment; WV college invests $4.7M in program for shale industry; DRBC frack ban hearings (i.e. circus freak shows) begin this week; NFG being hassled by corporate raider; 5 missing, 12 injured in big gas well explosion in Oklahoma; frackers could make more money than ever in 2018; evolution of the midstream sector; China now world’s #2 LNG importer; Saudis cozying up to the Russians; and more!
Read More “Marcellus & Utica Shale Story Links: Tue, Jan 23, 2018”

The “best of the rest”–stories that caught MDN’s eye over the break that you may be interested in reading. In today’s lineup: Keystone XL pipe construction to begin next year; forward gas prices key to keeping Haynesville recovery alive; Patterson-UTI Energy announces closing on $525M in notes; Congress wants to give FERC final say on natgas exports; China boosts LNG imports ahead of next cold snap; Venezuela’s oil industry is done for; and more!
Read More “Marcellus & Utica Shale Story Links: Mon, Jan 22, 2018”

The “best of the rest”–stories that caught MDN’s eye over the break that you may be interested in reading. In today’s lineup: 6 permits issued in Utica Shale; fossil fuel divestment is a costly, empty gesture for NY; a tale of two river basins; Jessup Borough hires radical lawyer to review power plant project; New England electric generators burned 2M brels of oil in 15 days; Scott Pruitt aims to accelerate efforts to remake EPA; new strategy for pipeline cos – bigger pipes; OPEC frets about new flood of U.S. oil; EIA says U.S. fossil fuel production to hit new records in 2018 & 2019; and more!
Read More “Marcellus & Utica Shale Story Links: Fri, Jan 19, 2018”

The “best of the rest”–stories that caught MDN’s eye over the break that you may be interested in reading. In today’s lineup: Ohio firefighters take part in Utica training program; New Englanders have only themselves to blame for spike in energy prices; North Dakota cuts back oil output due to gas flaring; shale oil output poised to pass 6.5 million barrels in February; oil prices in trouble?; API president Jack Gerard stepping down; Quantum forms new PetroLogistics II; natgas processing economics; the challenge at EPA is deeper than policy; and more!
Read More “Marcellus & Utica Shale Story Links: Thu, Jan 18, 2018”

The “best of the rest”–stories that caught MDN’s eye over the break that you may be interested in reading. In today’s lineup: PA drilling continues momentum in new year; OOGA looking for new executive VP; Range Resources donates $75K to Washington County; Enerplus announces 4Q Marcellus production numbers; U.S. oil and gas so hot they’re running out of workers; GOP looks to overhaul natgas, utility laws; Hess cutting hundreds of workers thx to pressure from corporate raider; Canadian natgas industry a “sad story”; and more!
Read More “Marcellus & Utica Shale Story Links: Wed, Jan 17, 2018”

The “best of the rest”–stories that caught MDN’s eye over the break that you may be interested in reading. In today’s lineup: Blasting for Atlantic Sunrise Pipe; heding keeps M-U natgas production flowing; construction to begin on Mid-Ohio Valley compressor stations; NYC mayor adopts Cuomo playbook on o&g industry; DRBC in high stakes game of high-tech colonialism; science replaces art in oil drilling; U.S. withdrew record amount of natgas during cold snap; carbon capture hopes & questions; renewable power not the only solution to energy poverty; Japan natgas prices hit 2-year high; and more!
Read More “Marcellus & Utica Shale Story Links: Tue, Jan 16, 2018”

The “best of the rest”–stories that caught MDN’s eye over the break that you may be interested in reading. In today’s lineup: Chemical leak at Derry gas well spreads odor for miles; seminar in Belmont County gives info on o&g royalties; Trumbull County hoping for CNG filling station; de Blasio’s bogus war on fossil fuels; Upstate NY shrinks as Andy cuts off pipeline lifelines; cold snap leads to biggest U.S. natgas draw ever; forecasters missed East Coast deep freeze; oil heading for $80?; Nova Scotia shale gas deposits “to large” to ignore; and more!
Read More “Marcellus & Utica Shale Story Links: Fri, Jan 12, 2018”

The “best of the rest”–stories that caught MDN’s eye over the break that you may be interested in reading. In today’s lineup: Gas operation job fair in Zanesville Jan 18; Blair County using $80K of Marcellus money to preserve farmland; Norfolk delays decision (again) on Atlantic Coast Pipe request to run under reservoir; LNG exports expected to increase by 1 Bcf/d in 2018; Baker Hughes had a bad year in 2017; trips of LNG going through Panama Canal spike up; and more!
Read More “Marcellus & Utica Shale Story Links: Thu, Jan 11, 2018”

The “best of the rest”–stories that caught MDN’s eye over the break that you may be interested in reading. In today’s lineup: Interview with CRSD’s Susan LeGros; NY Gov. Cuomo’s latest energy proposals try to cut down natgas; rig count stands at 21 in OH Utica; Arctic blast send natgas prices through the roof in North Carolina; California municipalities may have committed securities fraud in targeting Exxon; corporate raider Carl Ichan still hassling SandRidge Energy; utilities cut rates, credit Trump tax reforms; Agility Gas gets patent for ethylene shipping on LNG carriers; Germany scraps 2020 climate change targets because they won’t meet them; and more!
Read More “Marcellus & Utica Shale Story Links: Wed, Jan 10, 2018”

The “best of the rest”–stories that caught MDN’s eye over the break that you may be interested in reading. In today’s lineup: Dominion donates $1 million to charity; NY town to vote on law banning wind energy development; Woody Thrasher gets West Virginian of the Year award for China deal; what happens when you don’t build natgas pipelines?; six months later Dakota Access Pipe proves its value; still a shortage of frac services in shale; energy sector predictions for 2018; the “great crew change” coming in O&G; and more!
Read More “Marcellus & Utica Shale Story Links: Tue, Jan 9, 2018”

The “best of the rest”–stories that caught MDN’s eye over the break that you may be interested in reading. In today’s lineup: Anti-fracking NY invests more retirement $ in fracker CNX Resources; soaring prices in NJ show need for PennEast Pipeline; hearing for Scranton-area power plant emissions credits; local freight railroad in NEPA breaks record, thx to shale industry; permits in OH and PA remain strong; pipeline debate renews in New England with world’s highest prices; CUmmins Wesport natgas engine gets approved; record U.S. gas demand due to cold weather & exports; and more!
Read More “Marcellus & Utica Shale Story Links: Mon, Jan 8, 2018”