Best of the Rest

The “best of the rest” – stories that caught MDN’s eye that you may be interested in reading. In today’s lineup: PSEG shuts down its last coal plant; Marcellus merry-go-round; PA rig count jumps by 2 in May; Shale Crescent movement a lesson in teamwork; self-driving drilling rigs will arrive sooner than self-driving cars; big rigs pave way for 2nd shale boom; LA Times refuses to tell the truth re anti-Exxon campaign; “shaken” OPEC wants to work with shale oil producers; July 1st key date in Mexico natgas market; and more! Read More “Marcellus & Utica Shale Story Links: Wed, May 31, 2017”

The “best of the rest” – stories that caught MDN’s eye that you may be interested in reading. In today’s lineup: Marcellus/Utica pipeline takeaway projects to the Gulf Coast; Fracking loses a friend, Edward Allees; Shell buys another 1.5 miles of leases for ethane pipe; PA legislators “demand” severance tax; Chemical Safety Board investigates Barbour County explosion at mercaptan facility; GOP Senators tell Trump to dump Paris climate deal; why consensus on energy policy IS possible; OPEC decides to extend production cuts into 2018; and more! Read More “Marcellus & Utica Shale Story Links: Tue, May 30, 2017”

The “best of the rest” – stories that caught MDN’s eye that you may be interested in reading. In today’s lineup: DPS Land Services endows scholarship for WVU; new record for completion time/frac intensity in Eagle Ford; Venture Global LNG brings in more cash for projects; Congress considers laws to counter ‘sue-and-settle’ by Big Green groups; private equity using new strategy in o&g; WV AG leads coalition urging Trump to dump Paris climate deal; OPEC isn’t dead yet (unfortunately); and more! Read More “Marcellus & Utica Shale Story Links: Fri, May 26, 2017”

The “best of the rest” – stories that caught MDN’s eye that you may be interested in reading. In today’s lineup: PJM capacity auction reflects impact of cheap Marcellus/Utica gas; Vinton County, OH quake probably not fracking-related, state says; grant for CNG trucks in Trumbull County; what Chesapeake is cooking up in the Haynesville Shale; how American shale drillers flipped OPEC’s script; infrastructure for affordable energy; has Strategic Petroleum Reserve outlived its usefulness?; ‘gas apocalypse’ looms amid power plant construction boom; OPEC considers cutting production again; and more! Read More “Marcellus & Utica Shale Story Links: Thu, May 25, 2017”

The “best of the rest” – stories that caught MDN’s eye that you may be interested in reading. In today’s lineup: Eclipse thrives despite industry downturn; NJ State employee retirement fund invests $409K in Southwestern Energy; data doesn’t support anti claims of asthma issues in PA Marcellus; frack ban debated in frackless Massachusetts; tiny county in Texas richest in America–thx to fracking; US/OPEC oil war takes another turn; Cheniere’s place in the global LNG market; drillers return to profitability; industry works on automated drilling; and more! Read More “Marcellus & Utica Shale Story Links: Wed, May 24, 2017”

The “best of the rest” – stories that caught MDN’s eye that you may be interested in reading. In today’s lineup: States push for stronger oil train limits; o&g industry update coming for Jefferson County, OH; Utica Shale Academy talks about the future; PennEast Pipeline needed for Blue Mountain Resort; Consumers Energy spending $440M on natgas pipe upgrades in Michigan; tribes drop lawsuit against Dakota Access Pipeline; frac sand prices; petroleum demand keeps going up; Aramco signs $50 billion in deals with US companies; and more! Read More “Marcellus & Utica Shale Story Links: Tue, May 23, 2017”

The “best of the rest” – stories that caught MDN’s eye that you may be interested in reading. In today’s lineup: Enormous economic potential with Appalachian storage hub; Marcellus/Utica pipelines to the Southeast; energy strategy demands tri-state accord; drilling boost property taxes in Columbiana County; PA GOP gov candidate pledges no severance tax; CNG poisted to become more readily available; NGL ‘inflection point’ in WV; Senate hearing for FERC nominees this week; BH rig count climbs for 18th straight week; the great US oil export boom; EPA sets aside $12M for employee buyout scheme; Netherlands gets first US LNG cargo; OPEC net oil revenues lowest since 2004. Read More “Marcellus & Utica Shale Story Links: Mon, May 22, 2017”

The “best of the rest” – stories that caught MDN’s eye that you may be interested in reading. In today’s lineup: Dominion’s Cove Point LNG project now 89% done; Pilgrim Pipeline foes try to get law passed against it; WNF lease sales generate $1.75M for OH communities–so far; FirstEnergy nuke hearings in OH House suspended; Philly refineries hit hard times, again; court suspends litigation over EPA methane rule; Halliburton says company hiking prices “significantly”; after $500B and four decades, Energy Dept. doesn’t have much to show; and more! Read More “Marcellus & Utica Shale Story Links: Fri, May 19, 2017”

The “best of the rest” – stories that caught MDN’s eye that you may be interested in reading. In today’s lineup: Dead-end NY can’t create any jobs Upstate following frack ban; big air quality improvements coming to OH, thx to fracking; oil production in Utica shows modest increase; Air Products may shut down Luzerne County LNG manufacturing plant; Bob Huggins to highlight Shale Crescent USA event; WV nixes enviro group’s appeal of Mountain Valley pipe permit; Virginia gov targets power plant emissions; change at the top of Halliburton; former FERC attorneys say it’s time to drop NAVs; US shale oil will grow, even at $40/barrel; Trinidad production drops 8% in March; and more! Read More “Marcellus & Utica Shale Story Links: Thu, May 18, 2017”

The “best of the rest” – stories that caught MDN’s eye that you may be interested in reading. In today’s lineup: FirstEnergy continues quest to become re-regulated; Belmont County holds mock well pad spill exercise; NEXUS Pipeline donates $50K to Stark State; Mt. Pleasant finds fracktivist testimony “not credible”; DTE quest to cut carbon emissions includes ramp up in natgas; pipelines are not scary; big data comes to O&G; US shale drillers have NOT yet won the war against OPEC; and more! Read More “Marcellus & Utica Shale Story Links: Wed, May 17, 2017”

The “best of the rest” – stories that caught MDN’s eye that you may be interested in reading. In today’s lineup: Utica Shale adds another rig, Marcellus remains steady; heavy equipment apprentices train in PA; Cheniere offers $1 billion in notes; 3 important deadlines in Trump energy plan; concerns about reliability of natgas for electric generation overblown; OPEC needs to cut more; Mexico increasing US imports of natgas; and more! Read More “Marcellus & Utica Shale Story Links: Tue, May 16, 2017”

The “best of the rest” – stories that caught MDN’s eye that you may be interested in reading. In today’s lineup: Marcellus/Utica takeaway capacity to the East; Antero donates money to Monroe County, OH EMA; fracking topic of May 16 forum in Cleveland; Scranton rail trail closed while pipeline gets installed; conventional o&g production bigger than you may think; Range Resources hits 10 year mark in Southpointe, PA; America’s natgas export machine cranks up; Trump strikes deal to export more natgas to China; Cheniere in talks to ship more LNG to China; ex-CIA guy says we need to “wean” Europe off Russian natgas; OPEC begs U.S. shale to stop pumping so much oil; and more! Read More “Marcellus & Utica Shale Story Links: Mon, May 15, 2017”

The “best of the rest” – stories that caught MDN’s eye that you may be interested in reading. In today’s lineup: Can Southeast infrastructure handle Southeast demand growth?; why more coal, oil and natgas investments are needed; coal and nuke plants think Trump just saved their bacon; energy revolutions hidden in plain sight; Senate GOP defections sink effort to repeal BLM venting, flaring rule; US shale spending dwarf competition; Sabine Pass exports rise; UK to become third world country?…considers nationalizing energy companies & frack ban; and more! Read More “Marcellus & Utica Shale Story Links: Fri, May 12, 2017”

The “best of the rest” – stories that caught MDN’s eye that you may be interested in reading. In today’s lineup: NY banned fracking, then spends $95M to buy natgas buses; Wayne Natl Forest lawsuit prime example of “litigious battles to drive regulation”; Johnson Controls goes after o&g market with new testing lab; PA Dems now want severance tax to fund environmental conservation; Conn. House passes permanent ban on fracking waste–a state where there is none; RINO John McCain deserts GOP again, BLM methane rule stays; EIA revises US gas output higher in 2017; Tellurian makes progress on Driftwood LNG; and more! Read More “Marcellus & Utica Shale Story Links: Thu, May 11, 2017”

The “best of the rest” – stories that caught MDN’s eye that you may be interested in reading. In today’s lineup: Cove Point and the Atlantic Seaboard – in search of gas; Rice Energy considers selling part of midstream unit; legal battles continue in OH over oil & gas rights; five pipe projects in the mix in southeast OH; three reasons to invest in OH gas-fired power; CONSOL sees potential in the Utica where others don’t; officials should put added focus on WV cracker project; 18 protesters arrested for blocking pipeline project in Mass.; shale drillers are outspending the world by $84B; idiotic cities voting to cut their nose off by adopting resolutions to use 100% renewable energy; EOG uses science to boost production; and more! Read More “Marcellus & Utica Shale Story Links: Wed, May 10, 2017”

The “best of the rest” – stories that caught MDN’s eye that you may be interested in reading. In today’s lineup: Update on Marcellus/Utia pipeline takeaway projects; rig count declines in PA, WV last week; NYS energy policy – nukes yes, pipelines no; RINO Sen. Portman on the fence re Obama methane rule; signs of drilling industry coming back in PA; EPA drains some of the swamp – dismisses half of scientific advisers on key board; Chesapeake ‘on the ramp’ to growth; Congress gears up for nuclear subsidy showdown; Russia-U.S. rivalry for natgas; and more! Read More “Marcellus & Utica Shale Story Links: Tue, May 9, 2017”