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Fire at Miss. Compressor Station Reduces M-U Flows to Gulf Coast
It’s interesting that a single point of failure, one compressor station, can impact an entire region. Last Friday morning around 1 am, storms moved through Alcorn County, Mississippi. Lightning struck a “vertical gas pipe” at the Columbia Gulf Transmission Corinth natural gas compressor station, releasing and igniting natural gas. One local news station characterized it as a “massive gas fire” that “prompted county-wide response.” The fire burned for over four hours until firefighters could put it out. Some 2.2 billion cubic feet per day (Bcf/d) of Marcellus/Utica molecules flow through that compressor station on their way to the Gulf Coast.
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The Delaware River Basin Commission (DRBC), which treats the 17 counties in Pennsylvania under its jurisdiction as a fiefdom, has colluded with the leftists of the Big Green group Damascus Citizens for Sustainability to “settle” a lawsuit brought by the group against DRBC “forcing” the DRBC to further restrict and ban wastewater from conventional wells from being spread on roadways (dirt roads) in the 17 PA counties located behind the Iron Curtain of the DRBC.
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During the second week of May, Marcellus driller Northeast Natural Energy will begin to drill a geothermal and carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) data collection well–all the way down to 15,000 below the surface. The test well is being done in cooperation with (under the direction of) West Virginia University and the U.S. Dept. of Energy. The study and the data collected from the well aim to test the potential of geothermal energy in the region and gather information on the potential for underground CCS in the Appalachian basin.
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You’ve gotta give Pennsylvania State Senator Gene Yaw credit–he sure knows how to get under the skin of the wackadoodle left! Yaw is the Majority Chairman of the Senate Environmental Resources and Energy Committee. His committee oversees (among other things) the state Dept. of Environmental Protection (DEP), which is the state agency that oversees energy industries, including shale drilling. Yesterday Yaw tweaked the left by announcing he will soon introduce a bill to remove the word “Protection” from the DEP’s name, and replace it with…
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