U.S., Canada NatGas Output to Hit Ceiling in 2023 – Lack of Pipes
According to an article by Reuters, U.S. and Canadian natural gas output “could hit growing pains in 2023.” U.S. and Canadian natural gas production is expected to hit new all-time record highs in 2023. However, growth in production is slowing, and likely to hit a ceiling in 2023. Why? Lack of pipelines that can shuttle molecules from places like the Marcellus/Utica to the Gulf Coast, where petrochemical plants and LNG export facilities can use all of the gas they can get. We could produce more here in the M-U–a LOT more. But we can’t, because we have no way to transport the extra production.
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Industrial Energy Consumers of America (IECA), a trade group representing some of the biggest consumers of energy in the U.S. (i.e., manufacturers), wrote a letter to the governors of 12 states along the Eastern Seaboard asking those governors to prioritize natural gas pipelines in their respective states (full copy of the letter below). Recipients included Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and (falling on deaf ears) New York and New Jersey. According to the letter, manufacturing companies along the East Coast face growing natural gas scarcity due to the lack of interstate natural gas pipeline capacity.
We spotted an op-ed appearing on The Hill website running under the title, “Natural gas and permitting reform are critical to a clean energy future.” The article was written by Chad Zamarin, board chairman for the Interstate Natural Gas Association of America (INGAA) and senior vice president of corporate strategic development for pipeline giant Williams. In the op-ed, Zamarin defends natural gas against false claims that methane and pipelines are “obsolete and environmentally detrimental.” He states flatly that natural gas “must be part of a low-carbon energy future.”
Last week U.S. Senator Joe Manchin, from West Virginia, made another attempt to “shock” his permitting reform bill, a bill that would allow the Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP) to finish up more quickly, into life (see 
Last Thursday, residents who live near a natural gas compressor station in Brooke County, WV, asked WV Dept. of Environmental Protection (WVDEP) officials to address pollution and noise from the facility before recommending it for a permit from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The facility is owned by Appalachian Midstream Services, LLC, which we discovered (after a great amount of digging) is a subsidiary of Williams. Nearby residents from both WV and Pennsylvania (which is located a few hundred feet away) showed up to ask questions about, and point out problems with, the Mountaineer Compressor Station, which has been online since March 2021. The compressor is also located less than five miles from the border of Ohio (the northern Panhandle area of WV).
In August, Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro (a confirmed shale energy hater who becomes Governor on Jan. 1), announced that he had finally bullied Energy Transfer into pleading “no contest” (meaning they don’t admit to a darned thing) in a so-called criminal case against the company for a series of accidents affecting construction for both the Revolution and Mariner East pipelines (see 
Contrary to all the blabbering by enviro-nuts, using natural gas reduces so-called greenhouse gas emissions, specifically carbon dioxide (CO2), and helps to achieve theoretical “net-zero” carbon emissions much sooner than by not using natural gas. Validere, a measurement, reporting, and verification (MRV) SaaS company, released a study on Friday that is eye-opening. The study looks at the climate benefits of building and using two Appalachia-to-Southeast pipelines–the Atlantic Coast Pipeline (ACP, now canceled), and the Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP, on pause).
Spire Inc. is the owner and operator of the Spire STL Pipeline, a 65-mile pipeline that connects to and flows Marcellus/Utica gas from the Rockies Express (REX) pipeline in Scott County, IL, to residents and businesses in the St. Louis, MO area. Yesterday the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) issued a new permanent certificate for the pipeline to operate (continue operating). Both Chairman Richard “Dick” Glick and former NRDC lawyer and extremist radical Commissioner Allison Clements voted in favor of the permanent certificate–but not before they trash-talked it one last time.
Here’s something you won’t read on any other news or blog site: Yesterday, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) failed to issue a final certificate to build and operate the Williams Transco Regional Energy Access Expansion project. The project is vital for delivering more Pennsylvania Marcellus gas to New Jersey and beyond. Williams CEO Alan Armstrong, in a strongly-worded letter to FERC Chairman Richard “Dick” Glick in November, warned the project is in jeopardy if it doesn’t get a certificate now, this year (see 
Two days ago, MDN brought you the news that U.S. Senator Joe Manchin, from West Virginia, would make one more attempt to “shock” his permitting reform bill (that would allow the Mountain Valley Pipeline to finish up more quickly) into life once again (see 
Last week MDN told you that U.S. Senator Joe Manchin’s latest attempt to pass a so-called permitting reform bill (that would save Mountain Valley Pipeline as part of the bargain) had once again crashed and burned (see 
In 2020, EOG Resources, one of the largest oil and gas drillers in the U.S. (with international operations in Trinidad and China), sold *all* of its Marcellus assets, which were located in Bradford County, PA, to Tilden Resources for $130 million (see 
In April, a group of nearly 200 protesters from some 60 different wacko anti-fossil fuel groups turned out to protest a tiny 5-mile pipeline proposed in the Springfield, Massachusetts area (see