Here’s an interesting factoid: Even with our improved fracking technology, the amount of oil and gas that stays in the ground after a well is fracked is around 90%! Yes, even on our best days we’re only extracting maybe 10% of the fossil fuels down there. Can that ratio be improved?
Read More “DOE Awarding $88M in Grants to Research Better O&G Extraction”
A month ago MDN told you that EQT Midstream’s (now Equitrans) 300-mile Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP) from West Virginia to southern Virginia is now 70% done (see Shocker: Mountain Valley Pipeline Now 70% Built, Online by 4Q19). We expect that number is even higher now.
Read More “Mountain Valley Pipe Defends Southgate Expansion into NC”
THE Delaware Riverkeeper, Maya van Rossum, along with a couple of radicals from Lancaster County flying under the name Lancaster Against Pipelines (the Clatterbucks), are hoping they can convince the United States Supreme Court to consider a case that a series of lower courts have dismissed–a case that would shut down the now-operating Atlantic Sunrise Pipeline.
Read More “Riverkeeper Appeals Atlantic Sunrise Lawsuit to US Supreme Court”
A new report (full copy below) by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Global Energy Institute (GEI) found that the anti-energy “Keep it in the Ground” (KIITG) movement has prevented at least $91.9 billion in domestic economic activity and eliminated nearly 730,000 job opportunities. In addition, federal, state, and local governments have missed out on more than $20 billion in tax revenue.
Read More “Big Green has Cost America $110B by Blocking Energy Projects”
Yesterday President Trump formally nominated Andrew Wheeler to become Administrator of the federal Environmental Protection Agency, a job he’s been doing without the title for the past few months. We freely admit we are conflicted about Wheeler.
Read More “Trump Officially Nominates Andrew Wheeler to Head EPA”
Finally a little good news for Dominion Energy’s 600-mile Atlantic Coast Pipeline project: The Virginia State Air Quality Board voted yesterday 4-0 to approve a compressor station for the pipeline in Buckingham County.
Read More “Va. State Agency Approves Atlantic Coast Pipe Compressor Stn”
In February 2016, MDN told you about an exciting new market for Marcellus and Utica Shale gas that may open up one day in the Midwest (see New Midwest Pipeline to Tap REX’s Marcellus/Utica Gas). That day is coming–this year.
Read More “St. Louis Marcellus/Utica Pipeline Begins Construction”
This is so cockamamie: Build a pipeline across the Canadian province of Quebec, a province that has outlawed fracking and shale drilling, in order to flow natural gas that IS fracked from shale thousands of miles away, so it can be exported from an LNG facility on Canada’s East Coast.
Read More “New Quebec Pipeline to Help Western Canada Export LNG”
When the radical left repeatedly loses court cases, they put on their arrogant “civil” disobedience clothes and pronounce they are engaging in the age-old American practice of resisting an unethical practice or situation. Is it time for Exxon Mobil to do the same?
Read More “Time for Exxon to “Resist” & Refuse to Comply with Mass. AG?”
The process of fracking (hydraulic fracturing) of shale uses water, a LOT of water, forced into small cracks in order to force those cracks open and allow the gas and oil to escape. What if you could use far less water (and chemicals) by first bombarding the rock with sound waves?
Read More “Government Research Uses Sound Waves to Help Frack Wells”
What do fossil fuels, capitalism, industrialization and free speech have in common? They’re all under attack by the radical left, and we’re in danger of losing the fight to preserve them–and our way of life.
Read More “Must-Watch Video: Puncturing the Myth of 100% Renewables”
On Monday EQT Corporation, the largest natural gas producing company in the U.S., laid off “more than 100” (possibly as many as 132) employees, and issued a letter to shareholders trying to gin up support for the company’s “new” course of action.
Read More “EQT Lays Off ~15% of Workforce – Fires Back at Rice Brothers”
Range Resources issued an updated 2018 (not 2019) capital spending and operational update yesterday to say (a) they spent about $20 million less last year than originally forecast and (b) the company took a hit on production because of an outage at the MarkWest Houston/Harmon Creek processing facilities.
Read More “Range SWPA Production Takes Hit After MarkWest Plant Explosion”
Although Snyder Brothers Inc. valiantly fought a legal battle against the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission (PUC) over paying impact fees (taxes) on low-producing “stripper wells,” they lost. But it wasn’t just Snyder Bros. withholding impact fees on stripper wells.
Read More “List of 18 PA Drillers Who Owe $6M+ in Impact Fees from Strippers”
In typical lib Dem thinking, Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf thinks he can wave his magic Executive Order wand and lower so-called greenhouse gas emissions (carbon dioxide and fugitive methane) to help save Mom Earth.
Read More “PA Gov. Wolf Issuing Exec Order to Lower Greenhouse Gas”
New England refuses to build new natural gas transmission pipelines to carry abundant, cheap, clean-burning Marcellus Shale gas to the region–and instead continues to rely on imported LNG from Russia and burning dirty fuel oil to generate electricity when the nights get really cold.
Read More “New England Using Fuel Oil, Russian LNG to Survive Cold Winters”