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OTHER U.S. REGIONS: Dakota Access to seek Supreme Court review in oil pipeline fight; Largest LNG vessel ever to load at US terminal departs Cheniere’s Sabine Pass; NATIONAL: Biden’s first 100 days of oil and gas action: he’s just getting started; EIA: LNG exports remain flat, while natural gas prices rise; US land drillers see improving activity in 2021 as E&Ps expand operating spheres; INTERNATIONAL: Why won’t environmentalists speak out against forced labor for China-made solar panels?
Read More “Other Stories of Interest: Fri, Apr 30, 2021”

MARCELLUS/UTICA REGION: Drilling past rocket science (video); PA Senate Environmental Committee approves bill mandating legislative oversight in RGGI; OTHER U.S. REGIONS: Crusoe Energy raises $128 million for natural gas-powered modular data centers; NATIONAL: U.S. energy imports declined in 2020, while exports remained largely unchanged; Precision’s U.S., Canada contract drilling escalating quickly as outlook ‘substantially improved’; Biden plan leaves an opening for financing of global gas projects; Jennifer Granholm’s tone deaf advice for the oil and gas industry; Plus and Cummins to develop first autonomous natural gas trucks; deployment in 2022; U.S. natgas at eight-week high on record exports and output slide; INTERNATIONAL: Electric cars: What will happen to all the dead batteries?
Read More “Other Stories of Interest: Wed, Apr 28, 2021”

OTHER U.S. REGIONS: Oil production in Alaska reaches lowest level in more than 40 years; NATIONAL: Moody’s outlook for global energy industry revised to positive on higher prices, demand recovery; Natural gas price prediction – prices rise despite warm weather forecast; Propane markets writhe due to supply/demand uncertainty; INTERNATIONAL: EU admits it can’t go net-zero without natural gas; Climate change has shifted the axis of the Earth, study shows.
Read More “Other Stories of Interest: Tue, Apr 27, 2021”

MARCELLUS/UTICA REGION: Dimock Township, PA receives $95K state investment; Treasurer Riley Moore criticizes reported plans to cut funding for oil, gas industry; OTHER U.S. REGIONS: California governor seeks end to oil drilling in state by 2045; NATIONAL: U.S. LNG terminals seen running at full capacity to meet global demand; Billionaire’s low-carbon frac dream proves a tough sell; How natural gas production has continued to outpace crude since COVID hit; The Green New Deal will impoverish America; There is no climate emergency.
Read More “Other Stories of Interest: Mon, Apr 26, 2021”

MARCELLUS/UTICA REGION: Natural gas, manufacturing leaders ask Biden to bolster Marcellus; Vulcan Industrial expands to larger facility in Pennsylvania; NATIONAL: Nuverra announces appointment of Patrick Bond as chief executive officer; Baker Hughes raises global LNG demand forecast to 2030; Halliburton back in black as North America stages ‘healthy recovery’; US natural gas storage volumes increase nearly in line with five-year average; UN-backed climate activists plot to circumvent US Congress in run up to earth day; INTERNATIONAL: WoodMac: Asia reshaped LNG market within a year.
Read More “Other Stories of Interest: Fri, Apr 23, 2021”

MARCELLUS/UTICA REGION: EQT board member passes away unexpectedly; OTHER U.S. REGIONS: Legendary natural gas trader sees ‘seismic shift’ in Houston’s oil patch; NATIONAL: Collins joins Democrats in bid to undo Trump methane emissions rollback; Clean Energy Fuels soars 27% on a deal with Amazon to supply renewable natural gas; Joe Biden’s EV dreams are just another government boondoggle; INTERNATIONAL: World Bank: natural gas unlikely to play leading role in cutting maritime emissions; Why natural gas won’t be replaced anytime soon.
Read More “Other Stories of Interest: Wed, Apr 21, 2021”

OTHER U.S. REGIONS: NextDecade and Project Canary launch GHG measurement and certification framework for LNG; Gas ‘peaker’ plant would make way for more renewables, Massachusetts utilities say; Exxon pitches $100B carbon storage project using public, private financing; NATIONAL: Six subsectors account for nearly 90% of manufacturing energy consumption; Manchin backs labor-organizing bill while standing against carbon tax and fossil fuel bans; INTERNATIONAL: John Kerry’s climate kowtow to China.
Read More “Other Stories of Interest: Tue, Apr 20, 2021”

MARCELLUS/UTICA REGION: Meet “Freddy the Flame” PA’s natural gas mascot; NATIONAL: Landmen who once staked claims for oil and gas now hunt wind and sun; Last winter saw larger-than-average U.S. natural gas withdrawals from storage; Interior head Haaland revokes Trump-era orders on energy; INTERNATIONAL: Eliminating Ontario natural gas generation to inflict financial pain on consumers.
Read More “Other Stories of Interest: Mon, Apr 19, 2021”

MARCELLUS/UTICA REGION: Another Marcellus shale well pad coming to Upper Burrell; Muhlenberg poll finds health concerns over fracking, climate change decline in PA; Newer-technology natural gas-fired generators are utilized more than older units in PJM; W.Va. high court orders judge disqualified from EQT lawsuits; OTHER U.S. REGIONS: Council on Environmental Justice asks Northam to institute fossil fuel infrastructure ban; NATIONAL: U.S. Well Services files e-frac patent lawsuit against Halliburton, Cimarex Energy; Shale should withstand private equity pullback; Green spending is mere virtue signaling that hurts the poor; INTERNATIONAL: NFE to supply Norsk Hydro’s Brazil plant with LNG.
Read More “Other Stories of Interest: Fri, Apr 16, 2021”

NATIONAL: Pioneer’s CEO warns of OPEC+ price war if U.S. production surges; In the climate change fight, the Interior Department becomes a battlefield; Climate media vs. climate science; CNN staffer boasts to Project Veritas that network peddled anti-Trump ‘propaganda’; Bipartisan Senate bill would direct billions to plugging wells.
Read More “Other Stories of Interest: Thu, Apr 15, 2021”

MARCELLUS/UTICA REGION: Pittsburgh Regional Building Trades Council opposes Wolf’s push for RGGI participation; NATIONAL: Appeals court backs drilling protections reinstated by Biden; Nearly 400 state and local officials call for ban on new fracking permits; Kerry family jet flies to Idaho while he goes on international climate tour; Lower- and middle-class Americans will pay a fortune for Biden’s wind-power plan; Enverus/Drillinginfo sells itself to investment firm Hellman & Friedman; INTERNATIONAL: Less gas available for Canadian gas storage injection this summer; Shale oil is a dagger aimed at the heart of oil prices; Seven European countries to halt export finance for fossil fuels.
Read More “Other Stories of Interest: Wed, Apr 14, 2021”

MARCELLUS/UTICA REGION: As a large company’s president, I support RGGI to make Pa.’s businesses greener; NATIONAL: Could tiny sensors keep methane out of our atmosphere–and homes?; INTERNATIONAL: An anti-global warming hysteria book is driving Norwegian warming hysterics nuts; Russia tightens its grip on Europe’s natural gas markets.
Read More “Other Stories of Interest: Tue, Apr 13, 2021”

MARCELLUS/UTICA REGION: Pennsylvania town saved by fracking fears Biden will kill its prosperity; Indian Point is shutting down. That means more fossil fuel.; Plug Power and Brookfield Renewable move forward with green hydrogen plant in PA; NATIONAL: How Oxy’s new carbon venture could become a true game-changer; INTERNATIONAL: For Mexico’s president, the future isn’t renewable energy — it’s coal; Qatar could throw a wrench in America’s ambitious LNG plans.
Read More “Other Stories of Interest: Mon, Apr 12, 2021”

MARCELLUS/UTICA REGION: Verde Bio Holdings announces acquisition of mineral and royalty interests; UGI companies join Natural Gas Supply Collaborative; Antero Resources announces retirement of co-founder Glen Warren; NATIONAL: Lawmakers tell Biden to maintain Army Corps permitting rule; Groups petition EPA to remove ethane and methane from list of compounds exempt from emissions limits.
Read More “Other Stories of Interest: Fri, Apr 9, 2021”

MARCELLUS/UTICA REGION: DCNR, DEP begin plugging 12 abandoned oil & gas wells in Cornplanter State Forest; NATIONAL: Occidental CEO Hollub opposes a carbon tax despite rivals’ support for idea; Wrecking Biodiversity (video); U.S. energy E&P deals jump to $3.4 billion in first-quarter as shale consolidates; INTERNATIONAL: Canadian pipeline companies sees natgas opportunities in shift to green energy; Nord Stream 2 proves to be geo-political disaster; Climate activists smash Barclays HQ windows to protest capitalism’s role in climate change.
Read More “Other Stories of Interest: Thu, Apr 8, 2021”

MARCELLUS/UTICA REGION: Utica Shale Academy looks forward to making a move; NATIONAL: Natural gas workers among top wage earners in energy industry; U.S residential propane prices increased 30% during the winter heating season; EIA predicts $2.73 average HH natgas price for 2Q2021, rises to $3.11 in 2022; Cheers! Raise your beer stein to hops and natural gas; White House climate adviser: Biden won’t close door on carbon tax; Clouds on E&Ps’ horizon dissipate as industry fortunes brighten.
Read More “Other Stories of Interest: Wed, Apr 7, 2021”