Enverus Rig Count @ 541 (+13); Marcellus @ 32 (+1), Utica @ 13 (+0)
The Enverus U.S. rig count continues to climb, dramatically. For the week ending April 14, the U.S. rig count climbed another 13 active rigs to 541. The Marcellus added a rig ending the week with 32 active rigs. The Ohio Utica stayed even with 13 active rigs. The M-U combined has 45 active rigs. The other major shale gas play, the Haynesville, lost one rig and now has 47 active rigs.
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We hate reporting these kinds of stories because of the pain and suffering experienced by the family involved, but report it we must. A contract worker (46-year-old man) who was working at a Cabot Oil & Gas well pad off Hoag Hill Road in Rush Twp. (Susquehanna County, PA) around midnight Tuesday was injured at the pad and rushed to the hospital in Montrose, PA. He later died at the hospital.
Just yesterday MDN told you that Chesapeake Energy had enrolled in the same program EQT Corporation previously enrolled in to certify its natural gas as “responsibly sourced” (see 
This year’s 60-day session of the West Virginia legislature, which ended at the stroke of midnight on Sunday, saw a flurry of oil and gas-related bills. Perhaps the most important such bill for the industry, to expand forced pooling, failed (see 
As an article in Offshore Energy says, “LNG as a fuel should be a no-brainer” for the shipping industry. LNG used for marine applications (powering ships) is an important and expanding market for natural gas, including Marcellus/Utica gas. However, the adoption of LNG in the newbuilding sector “seems to be rather slow.” Why is that?
Due to a severe winter storm in the nation’s midsection in February, natural gas spot prices across the country went crazy (see 
In January EQT Corporation announced it would partner with a Denver, CO company calling itself “Project Canary” to run a test on two of its shale gas pads, to prove the natural gas produces is “certified responsibly sourced” (see 
In what can only be characterized as a complete and utter failure of a Big Green lawsuit, yesterday a Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission (PUC) judge ordered Sunoco Logistics, builder of the Mariner East pipeline system, to pay a $2,000 fine (the equivalent of a few high-priced lunches) and talk more to local groups around Philadelphia that want to complain about the project. That’s the end result of a request by seven antis that began in November 2018 asking the PUC to shut down the entire three-pipeline project (see 
There’s a lot of gum-flapping about sustainability and Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) these days. It seems as if every upstream and midstream company has suddenly gotten the ESG religion. But at the end of the day, what does it actually mean? How do companies really effect positive change, not just talk about it? CNX Resources doesn’t just talk a good game. CNX is investing $30 million to focus on local, underserved communities and populations in the tri-state region. CNX is looking for real results, not just pretty slide shows to show investors.
Just as we predicted, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) under Democrat Chairman Richard “Dick” Glick, his sidekick the former NRDC lawyer (Democrat) Allison Clements, and backstabbing, swamp-dwelling RINO Neil Chatterjee, is effectively killing off new pipeline projects. The three FERC commissioners have colluded to fundamentally change the way natural gas and oil pipelines are evaluated by including mythological man-made global warming as one of the criteria for approval.
Natural gas production in the Marcellus/Utica continues to slowly turn around. The rate of decline in production is slowing and (at some point) will reverse and begin to show increases month over month. That was our takeaway from yesterday’s Drilling Productivity Report (DPR), a report issued each month by our favorite government agency, the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA). Two shale plays–the Haynesville in Louisiana and East Texas, and the Permian in West Texas and eastern New Mexico–will see natural gas production increase in the coming month of May, same as happened in April. That’s two months in a row both the Haynesville and Permian increased natural gas production.
For nearly every year of the past 20+ years, there has been a reliable, year-in-and-year-out #1 export (in dollar revenue) from the United States to the rest of the world. Care to hazard a guess what it has been? Aircraft, mostly from Boeing. The U.S. has a new most-valuable export in 2021 that has flown on by aircraft exports: Natural gas. The fact that natgas has dethroned aircraft exports does not square well with rabid American leftists who seek to destroy all fossil fuel markets, including natural gas. The vaunted position of natgas also presents a problem for the Biden administration and their plans to slip AOC’s Fat Green Deal through under the disguise of an “infrastructure and jobs” plan.
It should come as no surprise that a group of far-left “environmentalists” who belong to New York State’s Power Generation Advisory Panel is recommending to Lord Cuomo that the state simply ban and block any and all new natural gas-fired power generating plants from being built in the state. Why? Because they have a mental condition that causes them to irrationally hate fossil fuels, including natural gas. That’s the only explanation that makes sense. Why else would Americans (who supposedly love freedom) advocate for the unconstitutional action of blocking a legitimate and legal business?