Mass. Radicals Arrested at Algonquin Pipe Meter Station Site
The Algonquin Gas Transmission pipeline (owned by Enbridge) transports up to 3.09 Bcf/d through 1,131 miles of pipeline. Algonquin connects to Texas Eastern Transmission (TETCO), Millennium Pipeline, and Maritimes & Northeast Pipeline and supplies New England with critically needed natural gas supplies for power generation and consumer use. Much of the gas flowing through it comes from the Marcellus/Utica. Algonquin needs to install a backup “meter and regulator” station in Lincoln, Mass., to keep the gas flowing in the region. The city of Cambridge owns a piece of land that it uses as a “buffer” for the city-owned reservoir in the area. Algonquin needs to cut some of the trees on that land in order to get its equipment through for the meter and regulator station, which will be constructed on land owned by Algonquin. Enter several nutjobs who are trying to block work at the site.
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Hope Gas, West Virginia’s largest natural gas utility company, and Quantum Pleasants, which is working on a plan in Pleasants County, WV, to use natural gas to produce hydrogen for electricity generation at what is currently a coal-burning plant, are squabbling before the state Public Service Commission (PSC) over whether or not Quantum Pleasants has the right to buy its natural gas from a different vendor (with a different pipeline).
We need a scorecard to keep track of all the ups and downs at the problem-plagued Freeport LNG export facility. We don’t think it’s a stretch to say the plant, which is the second largest LNG export plant in the U.S., has been down as much as it has been up over the past two years of its short existence. Just last Thursday, Reuters reported full operations at the plant (all three “trains”) would not be fully online again until “early August” following Hurricane Beryl visiting the area (see 
The U.S. national oil and gas rig regained more of its lost ground last week by adding three more rigs back to active status. The national combined Baker Hughes oil and gas rig count now stands at 589 rigs. The Marcellus/Utica remained even last week. Pennsylvania continued to operate 21 rigs. Ohio operated 11 active rigs (after adding a rig two weeks ago). West Virginia remained the same with five active rigs. The M-U’s primary competitor, the Haynesville, remained static with 36 active rigs — one less than the M-U’s 37 rigs.
CNX Resources issued its second quarter update yesterday. MDN will do a deeper dive into the update on Monday. Today, we want to highlight one item “tucked away” in the report that was first noticed by the Pittsburgh Business Times. CNX has a New Technologies Group dedicated to growing the use of natural gas outside of the typical extract-it-and-sell-it-via-pipeline model. In yesterday’s update, CNX said it had sold what it calls ZeroHp CNG to an outside company in July — making CNG (compressed natural gas) right at the well pad without the use of compressors.
The Bidenistas at the EPA attacked coal and gas-fired power plants in April, threatening to destabilize the existing electric power grid with new regulations (see 
Real journalism in the U.S. is dead. You know that, right? Once objective and venerable publications like the New York Times, Washington Post, and other mainstream media publications are now nothing more than the public relations arm of the Democrat Party. Their “reporters” don’t report, they spin. They lie. They obfuscate. A case in point is an article by the Bloomberg news service. Kamala Harris is on record (on video) saying she is in favor of a full-on, 100% ban on all fracking in the country. Not just fracking on government land (which was Joementia’s position), but a ban for everyone everywhere. Republicans are now reminding people of her statements and position on this issue, so Bloomberg is covering for Ms. Harris.
Yesterday, EQT Corporation, the country’s largest natural gas producer, issued its second quarter 2024 update. We’re dedicating another post to chronicling other news coming from the update. This post is dedicated to the most significant news from the update: EQT has decided to keep the newly christened 2.0 Bcf/d Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP) instead of selling it. Not only that, but EQT wants to expand the pipeline’s capacity from 2.0 to 2.5 Bcf/d as soon as possible.
Yeah, we kind of felt like it was too good to be true. Tuesday, we told you that an LNG carrier had left Freeport LNG’s port last weekend fully loaded, and a couple of carriers were queued up, waiting to dock and load (see 
According to the left-leaning Spotlight PA, “A flurry of recent bipartisan agreements by state lawmakers on energy projects and policies is sending a clear message: Pennsylvania is slowly moving toward clean energy but fossil fuels aren’t going anywhere.” Joe Biden is sending big money to Pennsylvania to fund all sorts of ludicrous “renewable” energy initiatives (i.e., bribes). However, sources talking to Spotlight PA confirm that fossil fuels — the Marcellus industry — remain strong and are not going anywhere.
The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) is the sixth-largest power supplier and the largest public utility in the country. In 2021, MDN told you that TVA is spending over $1 billion to replace six coal-fired plants with natgas-fired turbines (see 
According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA), injections into natural gas storage so far this injection season (April 1–October 31) is 15% (166 Bcf) *less* than the previous five-year average (2019–23) for the same period. Injections into storage are also 15% (172 Bcf) less than this same time last year. Yet working natural gas inventories in the Lower 48 states are 17% *higher* than the five-year average and 8% higher than this time last year. How can that be?
On Monday, U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin (I-WV), the chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, and Sen. John Barrasso (R-WY), the ranking Republican member of that committee, released the Energy Permitting Reform Act of 2024 (see 
In April, MDN brought you the news that EQT Corporation, the largest natural gas producer in the country (totally focused on the Marcellus/Utica) had signed two agreements with Glenfarne Energy’s Texas LNG Brownsville export facility to liquefy 2.0 million tons per annum (MTPA) of EQT-extracted shale gas (see 
Yesterday, the Ohio Dept. of Natural Resources (ODNR) opened up the shuttered Austin Master Services (AMS) radiological waste management solutions company in Martins Ferry (Belmont County), Ohio, to begin cleanup work at the facility. One contractor began working at the site, while a bunch of others did a “pre-bid walkthrough” to look at what is there to make bids for cleaning it. AMS is permitted by the ODNR to temporarily store up to 600 tons of fracking waste, like drill cuttings and wastewater. ODNR estimates there are some 10,000 tons of fracking waste at the site. AMS ran out of money, and vendors quit accepting the waste. After failing to meet a court-ordered July 22 deadline, ODNR stepped in to handle the cleanup.
As we have been reporting, Austin Master Services, a radiological waste management solutions company in Martins Ferry (Belmont County), Ohio, that handles fracking waste (trucks it for disposal), ran into trouble when it ran out of money. The facility where waste is temporarily stored went from a permitted maximum of 600 tons of stored waste to over 10,000 tons, in violation of its permit. The Ohio Attorney General’s office filed a lawsuit against the company to force compliance. As is always the case, there are two sides to every story. The side of AMS and its owner, Brad Domitrovitsch, is not getting much media coverage. We have an update on Brad’s side of the story…