NATIONAL: Shale-production costs seen rising 2.8% in 2025; INTERNATIONAL: Israel vows retaliation for massive Iranian missile attack; EU Commission targets 26 member states over renewable noncompliance; Explosive-packed drone boat slams into oil tanker in Red Sea; Saudi strategic shift raises specter of another oil bust. Read More “Other Stories of Interest: Wed, Oct 2, 2024”
OTHER U.S. REGIONS: Eversource Energy completes exit of offshore wind business; NATIONAL: Bidenistas accuse John Hess of colluding with OPEC; Government control of what you eat is on the menu if Kamala wins; Maryland court ruling threatens to shut down Gulf of Mexico production; INTERNATIONAL: Japan LNG lobby urges government to help negotiate better contracts; China extracts commercially viable natural gas from deeper shale formations. Read More “Other Stories of Interest: Tue, Oct 1, 2024”
NATIONAL: Energy Aspects thought USA natural gas price rise was overdone; A broken energy permitting system hurts Hispanic families and small biz; Readers led to believe fictional portrayals are accurate in climate fiction; U.S. shale hits snooze; INTERNATIONAL: Europe can’t seem to kick its Russian energy habit. Read More “Other Stories of Interest: Mon, Sep 30, 2024”
MARCELLUS/UTICA REGION: Digging deep to understand rural opposition to solar power; OTHER U.S. REGIONS: Category 3 Hurricane Helene nears landfall, disrupts energy infrastructure; NATIONAL: Harris’ bait and switch on fracking; Shock election forecast gives Trump 11 point lead over Harris; INTERNATIONAL: OPEC+ confirms it has no specific price target for crude oil; Oil sinks amid Saudi output plans and Libyan oil revival; Oil prices to stay depressed through 2025 on global oversupply; Agencies reveal new framework to measure progress on methane reduction; The EU tries to extend its ESG regulatory reach to the U.S. Read More “Other Stories of Interest: Fri, Sep 27, 2024”
NATIONAL: Climate activist group endorses Harris; Tally of US wind & solar rejections hits 735; Diversified E&Ps rebalancing portfolios to crude oil as natural gas revenues sink; INTERNATIONAL: Is oil more likely to go to $60 or $100 in 2024?; Chevron paid more to African petrostates than the USA in 2023; 100+ global lawmakers urge Biden to reject new LNG exports. Read More “Other Stories of Interest: Thu, Sep 26, 2024”
OTHER U.S. REGIONS: Air Force awards contract to test clean power plant technology; NATIONAL: Trump plans Texas oil country donor blitz to shrink money gap with Harris; The United States is the world’s largest gasoline exporter; Harris-Walz have a big fracking problem; U.S. LNG feedgas demand dips on Cove Point maintenance shutdown; INTERNATIONAL: U.S. LNG permit freeze sparks export boom in Canada and Mexico; Most climate policies are pointless but costly; Shell scraps blue hydrogen project plans. Read More “Other Stories of Interest: Wed, Sep 25, 2024”
MARCELLUS/UTICA REGION: Trump promises PA ‘pumping, fracking, drilling, producing like never before’; Bob Casey’s facade of moderation; NATIONAL: Decline in natgas price drove decrease in U.S. O&G revenue in early 2024; US natural gas prices jump 7% to 12-week high on storm worries; INTERNATIONAL: Energy revenue fuels a war-time Moscow boom; Trouble deepens for North Sea oil and gas. Read More “Other Stories of Interest: Tue, Sep 24, 2024”
MARCELLUS/UTICA REGION: PA plans to spend fed funds on “climate initiatives” could be upended if Trump wins; OTHER U.S. REGIONS: Youngkin joins “energy choice” coalition with other Republican governors; Guerilla litigation causes Rio Grande LNG’s permits to be vacated; NATIONAL: Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos back white hydrogen startup; Gastech: a thriving gas sector, if you can keep it; Just another frivolous climate lawsuit; INTERNATIONAL: WTI holds gains after volatile week, Brent edges lower; Trafigura prepares for CEO handover to gas boss Richard Holtum; JP Morgan talks global oil demand. Read More “Other Stories of Interest: Mon, Sep 23, 2024”
NATIONAL: USA EIA drops WTI oil price forecasts; Kerry says oil industry yet to prove carbon capture viable; Rystad estimates 400 additional LNG vessels needed; Activist organization tallies up cases, omits losses; US shale gas growing source of shipping, trucking fuel; Natural gas, LNG positioned to help address power demand, decarbonization; Chevron opts against US LNG plant investment in favour of direct gas sales; INTERNATIONAL: ING stops funding pure-play upstream firms. Read More “Other Stories of Interest: Fri, Sep 20, 2024”
MARCELLUS/UTICA REGION: Powering Pennsylvania’s future; NATIONAL: The ‘crazy LNG’ pause just got worse; Is the rangebound summer gas market heading for a breakout?; The Kamala Harris non-sequitur on energy independence; Hurricane forecasts raise doubt about climate science; Wall Street wants you to know profit comes before net zero; INTERNATIONAL: Gastech 2024: Energy ministers debate role of natural gas. Read More “Other Stories of Interest: Thu, Sep 19, 2024”
NATIONAL: Standard Chartered, JP Morgan look at oil price moves; Progressives should cut Harris slack on fracking, McKibben says; US LNG export dominance tested as Europe’s demand wilts; Democrats seek to tax fossil fuel companies over climate change; INTERNATIONAL: OPEC+ faces a new problem – a Texas gas pipeline; Venture Global expands European regasification capacity; BP to divest wind unit in effort to enhance competitiveness. Read More “Other Stories of Interest: Wed, Sep 18, 2024”
MARCELLUS/UTICA REGION: PA energy groups don’t buy Harris’ ‘deathbed conversion’ on fracking; NATIONAL: Fed judge temporarily blocks Biden admin rule to limit gas flaring at oil wells; Noisy, hungry data centers are catching communities by surprise; Are Harris supporters ignorant or do they just hate Trump more than they love this country?; INTERNATIONAL: Earth’s greatest mass extinction 250 million years ago due to El Niño. Read More “Other Stories of Interest: Tue, Sep 17, 2024”
OTHER U.S. REGIONS: Middle River Power reverses plan to shut 540-MW plant amid record PJM capacity prices; Gas stoves in California may soon come with a tobacco-style health warning label; ExxonMobil hydrogen hub attracts billions from major investors; NATIONAL: FERC greenlights BlackRock’s $12.5B purchase of GIP; Chevron and MOL to install Wind Challenger on LNG carrier; INTERNATIONAL: Aramco inks agreements expanding AI deployment across its operations; The Hague becomes world’s first city to ban oil ads; Gag on climate reporting is another French obscenity. Read More “Other Stories of Interest: Mon, Sep 16, 2024”
MARCELLUS/UTICA REGION: First-responder training focusing on O&G industry available; OTHER U.S. REGIONS: Texas LNG announces additional offtake sufficient for FID; Rising interest in Gulf Coast natural gas storage spurs a slew of projects; NATIONAL: Google locks in carbon removal at $100 a ton; Retail electricity prices closely tracked inflation over the last 10 years; Harris tells a fracking howler; INTERNATIONAL: Growing biomethane on peat emits 3X more CO2 than using natgas; GALACTIC: What’s behind the Martian methane mystery? Read More “Other Stories of Interest: Thu, Sep 12, 2024”
NATIONAL: Kamala Harris won’t explain change of heart on fracking; Navigating the surplus in U.S. LPG and ethane production; Exxon CEO promises to sue more activist shareholders if they abuse proxy rules.
Read More “Other Stories of Interest: Wed, Sep 11, 2024”
NATIONAL: Presidential debate: let’s talk energy; US natgas prices fall 5% as hurricane threatens LNG and power demand; Harris buries her ‘clean energy’ agenda while Trump goes big on fossil fuels; Talking points on Kamala Harris’s fracking reversal; UTulsa tests optimal mix of hydrogen and natural gas; 2024 American Energy Scorecard for the House of Representatives. Read More “Other Stories of Interest: Tue, Sep 10, 2024”