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Low Flows Halt Frac Water Withdrawals at 48 NEPA Shale Sites
It’s a rerun of last spring, only bigger. A dry autumn has left many small streams in Pennsylvania’s Northern Tier running low, and the Susquehanna River Basin Commission (SRBC) has told shale drillers and their water suppliers to stop withdrawing water at 48 locations. Another 12 shale water sources are on the SRBC’s “watch” list, meaning they’re close to being shut off too. In April we reported 15 shutoffs and 9 watch sites (see Drought Conditions Stop Frac Water Withdrawals at 15 NEPA Locations). The shutoffs now cover seven counties: Bradford, Susquehanna, Wyoming, Tioga, Potter, Lycoming and Sullivan. Read More “Low Flows Halt Frac Water Withdrawals at 48 NEPA Shale Sites”
Spain’s Repsol, which picked up a big chunk of PA’s northern tier Marcellus when it bought Talisman Energy in 2015, released its third-quarter 2026 update yesterday. We read all four documents: the press release, the 37-page results report, the investor slide deck, and the earnings call transcript. The Marcellus gets exactly one sentence. But it’s a good sentence: more gas is flowing from Repsol’s Marcellus wells. The call also included a few comments from CEO Josu Jon Imaz that Repsol landowners, competing drillers, service companies, and investors will want to hear. 
Every Saturday, the Pennsylvania Bulletin publishes pages of DEP permit notices that almost nobody reads. We read them so you don’t have to. Taken one at a time, most look routine: an erosion permit here, an air permit there. Lined up side by side, they tell you which drillers are building, and where. Last weekend’s edition (Oct. 24) shows Expand Energy busy across the Northern Tier, Repsol and Seneca/NFG working in Tioga County, Devon still building in Susquehanna County, and XTO getting a new pad ready in Butler County. 
The highly functional and responsible Susquehanna River Basin Commission (SRBC), unlike its dysfunctional and irresponsible counterpart, the Delaware River Basin Commission (DRBC), continues to support the shale energy industry by approving water withdrawals and consumptive use requests for responsible, safe shale drilling. The SRBC published a notice in the October 24th Pennsylvania Bulletin that the SRBC approved and/or renewed 33 general water use permits in September for individual shale gas well drilling pads in Bradford, Lycoming, McKean, Sullivan, Susquehanna, Tioga, and Wyoming counties. 
For our final 
The Marcellus/Utica region received 39 new drilling permits last week, August 24 – 30, up significantly from the 19 permits issued two weeks ago. Pennsylvania finally bounced back, issuing the vast majority of the new permits, with 25. Ohio issued 8 permits. And West Virginia issued 6 new permits. The drillers who received new permits were: Antero Resources, Campbell Oil & Gas, CNX Resources, EOG Resources, EQT, Expand Energy, Infinity Natural Resources, PennEnergy Resources, and Repsol Oil & Gas. 