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NFG Lawsuit Alleges Fraud, Counterfeit Parts Used at Compressor Stn

Here’s the kind of thing you don’t want to read about. Utility giant National Fuel Gas Company, headquartered in Buffalo and parent to Seneca Resources and NFG Midstream (and Empire Pipeline), is suing a former employee and several vendors for buying and installing counterfeit parts at several compressor stations. One such part caused the temporary shutdown at one compressor station in New York’s Southern Tier when the part failed to work correctly.
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NFG Quarterly Update – Seneca M-U Production Up Big 11%

National Fuel Gas Company (NFG), headquartered in Buffalo, NY, is the parent company for Marcellus/Utica driller Seneca Resources and the parent of midstream company NFG Midstream (and subsidiary Empire Pipeline). Last week, NFG issued its latest quarterly update. During the quarter (considered the company’s first quarter), Seneca produced 100.8 Bcf (billion cubic feet) of natural gas, an increase of 10.2 Bcf, or 11%, from the prior year, mainly due to production from new Marcellus and Utica wells in Seneca’s Eastern Development Area (EDA).
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NFG & Seneca Announce New Tioga Pathway Pipeline Project

National Fuel Gas Company (NFG), headquartered in Buffalo, NY, is the parent company for Marcellus/Utica driller Seneca Resources and the parent of midstream company National Fuel Midstream (formerly Empire Pipeline). Last week, NFG issued its latest quarterly update. NFG operates on a weird fiscal year system. This latest update is for the company’s fourth quarter (and full year), which would be everybody else’s third quarter update. During the company’s fourth quarter, Seneca produced 93.8 Bcfe, an increase of 5.9 Bcfe, or 7%, from the prior year, despite the impact of approximately 2 Bcfe of price-related curtailments due to low in-basin pricing. The big news (for us) coming from the update was the announcement of a new pipeline project to flow more Seneca production to more markets, a project called the Tioga Pathway Project.
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NFG’s Midstream Gathering Unit Achieves EO100 Responsible Gas Cert

In August 2022, Seneca Resources, a subsidiary and the drilling arm of National Fuel Gas Company, announced it had achieved an “A” certification grade under the MiQ Standard for Methane Emissions Performance (MiQ Standard), the highest available certification level MiQ awards, for all of the company’s 1+ billion cubic feet per day (Bcf/d) of natural gas production in the Marcellus/Utica (see MiQ Certifies 100% of Seneca Resources’ 1 Bcf/d of M-U Production). That designation means Seneca can claim it produces responsible gas and the molecules can be traded/bundled on the MiQ Digital Registry. NFG’s midstream (gathering pipeline) arm can now make the same claim using a different certification authority.
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Anti Challenge to Northern Access Pipe Dealt Blow in DC Circuit

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National Fuel Gas Company (NFG) and its pipeline subsidiary Empire Pipeline have worked on a plan to build the Northern Access Pipeline since 2016. Northern Access is a 97-mile project from McKean County in Pennsylvania into and through Allegany, Cattaraugus, and Erie counties in New York that will flow Marcellus gas into New York State. The project was repeatedly delayed by the radicals of the Andrew Cuomo (now Kathy Hochul) administration. NFG says it still wants to build the project, but needs more time. The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) gave NFG an extra 35 months to get the project done in a decision in June 2022. The Sierra Club challenged FERC’s time extension, and in oral arguments yesterday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia (DC Circuit) pretty much shut down the Sierra Club and its challenge.
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Seneca Shifts Focus to Drilling Utica Wells in Northcentral PA

National Fuel Gas Company (NFG), headquartered in Buffalo, NY, is the parent company for Marcellus/Utica driller Seneca Resources and the parent of midstream company Empire Pipeline. Yesterday, NFG issued its latest quarterly update. NFG operates on a weird fiscal year system. This latest update is for the company’s third quarter, which would be everybody else’s second quarter update. NFG said it plans to “further moderate” its Seneca drilling activity as it shifts to slower production growth in the “low single-digit” range.
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MVP the Template to Finish Pipelines Like NY’s Northern Access

National Fuel Gas Company (NFG) and its pipeline subsidiary Empire Pipeline have worked on a plan to build the Northern Access Pipeline since 2016. Northern Access is a 97-mile project from McKean County in Pennsylvania into and through Allegany, Cattaraugus, and Erie counties in New York that will flow Marcellus gas into New York State. The radicals of the Andrew Cuomo and Kathy Hochul administrations have repeatedly delayed the project. NFG still wants to build it but needs more time. Last July, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) gave NFG an extra 35 months to get the project done–until Dec. 31, 2024 (see FERC Gives NFG Extra 3 Years to Build Northern Access Pipeline). The Sierra Club appealed FERC’s time extension for the project, and it currently sits in court. Could an Act of Congress like the one that helped MVP finish help Northern Access too?
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NFG Quarterly Update – CEO Slams NY for Electrify Everything Plan

National Fuel Gas Company (NFG), headquartered in Buffalo, NY, is the parent company for Marcellus/Utica driller Seneca Resources and the parent of midstream company Empire Pipeline. Last week NFG (and Seneca and Empire) issued its latest quarterly update. NFG operates on a weird fiscal year system. This latest update for NFG is its first quarter 2023 update, which would be everybody else’s fourth quarter update. Don’t get confused. So what did the update (and conference call) reveal about Seneca and Empire? Seneca’s M-U natural gas production was 90.6 Bcfe for the quarter (just shy of 1 Bcf/d), an increase of 9.2 Bcfe, or 11%, higher than the prior year, and 3% higher than fiscal 2022 fourth quarter.
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NFG’s Seneca Resources Leads Company Growth, Pumps 1 Bcf/d in 3Q

National Fuel Gas Company (NFG), the parent company for Seneca Resources and Empire Pipeline, recently issued its latest update for the quarter ending June 30 (NFG’s third fiscal quarter, everyone else’s second quarter). NFG is a truly integrated company, including drilling, pipelines, and a utility company serving end-user customers. The company made $108 million in profit for the quarter, mostly driven by its upstream (drilling) unit Seneca Resources. In fact, upstream/drilling represented half (50%) of NFG’s revenues in 3Q22.
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FERC Gives NFG Extra 3 Years to Build Northern Access Pipeline

National Fuel Gas Company (NFG) and its pipeline subsidiary Empire Pipeline have worked on a plan to build the Northern Access Pipeline since 2016. Northern Access is a 97-mile project from McKean County in Pennsylvania into and through Allegany, Cattaraugus and Erie counties in New York, that will flow Marcellus gas into New York State. The project was repeatedly delayed by the radicals of the Andrew Cuomo (now Kathy Hochul) administration. NFG says it still wants to build the project, but needs more time. The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) just gave NFG an extra 35 months to get the project done.
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NY’s Corrupt DEC Still Trying to Block NFG’s Northern Access Pipe

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What in the world is going on inside the bowels of the New York Dept. of Environmental Conservation (DEC)? The DEC is once again trying to reopen a long-settled case that allows National Fuel Gas Company (NFG) to build the Northern Access Pipeline, a 97-mile project from McKean County in Pennsylvania into and through Allegany, Cattaraugus and Erie counties in New York, that will flow Marcellus gas into the Empire State.
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NFG/Seneca Resources Goes Whole Hog on ESG – New Cert & GHG Target

Another great company succumbs to the siren call of ESG (environmental, social, governance). A week ago we told you that Seneca Resources, the drilling arm of utility giant National Fuel Gas Company (NFG), had signed up with Project Canary to certify its natural gas as responsibly sourced (see Seneca Resources Jumps on “Responsibly Sourced Gas” Bandwagon). A few days ago Seneca announced it will also seek Equitable Origin’s EO100™ Standard for Responsible Energy Development to certify 100% of its Marcellus/Utica gas. And yesterday NFG announced a new so-called greenhouse gas emissions goal target for 2030.
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M-U Gas Pipeline Flows Hit All-Time High – Coming Constraints

The experts at RBN Energy continue their series of blog posts about pipelines that flow Marcellus/Utica gas to other regions with a look at two pipelines that connect directly to Canada: Tennessee Gas Pipeline and Empire Pipeline. In this post we learn that natural gas flows from the M-U over this past weekend hit a new record high of 17.3 billion cubic feet per day (Bcf/d). We also learn M-U pipelines flowed an average of 16.7 Bcf/d in April–an all-time high for any month! The problem is we’re now maxed out and need more pipelines.
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NFG’s Northern Access Pipe Wins “Final” Court Case Against NY

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The final hurdle for National Fuel Gas Company’s (NFG) Northern Access Pipeline as it travels through New York State has fallen. Yesterday the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ruled that yes, New York (according to federal guidelines) waived its right to grant a Section 401 water crossing permit under the federal Clean Water Act when NY declined to rule on the permit application within one calendar year. That means NFG can now proceed with the project, although the company previously said they would not begin to build until 2022.
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FERC Denies Time Extension to Build PA to NY Northern Access Pipe

National Fuel Gas Company (NFG), the utility and midstream giant based in Buffalo, NY, remains committed to building it’s Northern Access Pipeline project, a $500 million project that includes building 97 miles of new pipeline along a power line corridor from northwestern Pennsylvania up to Erie County, NY. The project also calls for 3 miles of new pipeline further up, in Niagara County, along with a new compressor station in the Town of Pendleton.
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NFG: More PA Fracked Gas to NY Coming Online Next Few Months

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Late last week National Fuel Gas Company (NFG), the parent company of Marcellus/Utica driller Seneca Resources and midstream company Empire Pipeline, issued its third-quarter (everyone else’s second quarter) financial and operational update. Among the things we learned: Seneca dropped to using a single drilling rig in June and shut-in some of its Marcellus/Utica production. That strategy remains in place for the foreseeable future, according to NFG’s top brass.
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