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”
MARCELLUS/UTICA REGION: Protestors interrupt forum featuring Manchin and Capito; PJM considers fast-track review for shovel-ready generating projects; NATIONAL: Oil settles down 2%, big weekly drop after US jobs data; Why has the green hydrogen hype faded?; Bernie Sanders says Kamala Harris is lying to win; Democrat voters have been hypnotized by media flunkies.
Read More “Other Stories of Interest: Mon, Sep 9, 2024”
OTHER U.S. REGIONS: Berkeley now plans to tax buildings using natgas; NATIONAL: The leftwing judicial ethics crisis no one is talking about; Small storage build creates bullish shock to gas market; INTERNATIONAL: Egypt seeks to import more LNG for winter; Oil, gas will remain central to energy mix for foreseeable future; US imposes sanctions on companies, vessels linked to Arctic LNG 2. Read More “Other Stories of Interest: Fri, Sep 6, 2024”
MARCELLUS/UTICA REGION: Pennsylvania man pleads guilty to defrauding $2M from investors; NATIONAL: US oil, gas M&A nears 2023 record, focus shifts away from Permian; Toning down the rhetoric on fossil fuels and radical climate change; America’s energy success has nothing to do with the Biden-Harris administration; INTERNATIONAL: OPEC+ discusses delaying supply boost after oil price crash; Saudi Arabia faces potential deficit on oil decline. Read More “Other Stories of Interest: Thu, Sep 5, 2024”
OTHER U.S. REGIONS: Waha’s negative gas prices set an unwelcome, painful record; NATIONAL: Don’t be fooled – Kamala is a zero-carbon green radical; US LNG exports rebound in August on higher output from Freeport; Winter demand may not boost natural gas prices, Bank of America says; INTERNATIONAL: World’s biggest underwater methane hotspot is found off Barents Sea coast; Brent crude tumbles below $75 a barrel; Let’s be honest – shale fracking has saved the West. Read More “Other Stories of Interest: Wed, Sep 4, 2024”
MARCELLUS/UTICA REGION: Hope Gas celebrates ‘Hope’ 24-months after acquisition; OTHER U.S. REGIONS: Data centers face seven-year wait for Dominion power hookups; NATIONAL: Why this Democrat decided Donald Trump is the best choice for president; INTERNATIONAL: OPEC+ likely to proceed with planned output hike from October; Oil fell sharply on expected OPEC+ output increase; BP stock trails Shell as investors turn away from green energy; USA Centcom says Houthis attacked 2 oil tankers. Read More “Other Stories of Interest: Tue, Sep 3, 2024”
OTHER U.S. REGIONS: Texas sued by climate zealots over anti-ESG law; Gov. Newsom’s Venezuela-like price control proposal on oil industry; NATIONAL: Harris does u-turn on fracking ahead of November election; Kamalism – financial illiteracy with a smiley face; 5 best-performing oil & gas stocks in 2024; Trump’s plan to cut energy costs in half; INTERNATIONAL: Japan ignored climate critics and built global natgas empire; UK govt announces plans for new oil, gas enviro guidance. Read More “Other Stories of Interest: Fri, Aug 30, 2024”