Latest Monthly STEO Predicts HH Spot Price to Avg $8.59 in 2H22
In its latest monthly Short-Term Energy Outlook (STEO), the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) makes a startling prediction. EIA now says it expects the Henry Hub (HH) spot price to average $7.83/MMBtu in 2Q22 and then (gasp) it will average $8.59/MMBtu during the second half of 2022. Yesterday’s HH price jumped $.036 to close at $7.39. As we told you yesterday, we are on a very volatile roller coaster (see NYMEX Gas Price Drops $1.76/MMBtu in 2 Days to $7.03). Expect to see big swings both up and down–but mostly up. The latest STEO also predicts we will break the all-time high production record for natgas this year too.
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Last week Philadelphia released a so-called “Greenhouse Gas Inventory” report (full copy below) comparing emissions from 2019, the most recent pre-pandemic data, to a baseline in 2006. The report shows citywide emissions have dropped 20% since 2006. In reporting done by the lefties at PBS about this news, you have to read down to the fifth paragraph before you locate the reason for the 20% drop in Philly’s emissions: using Marcellus Shale gas to generate electricity.
Yesterday MDN highlighted a newly published Cleveland State University study commissioned (and paid for) by the nonprofit JobsOhio (see 
The sham “environmental” group Environmental Defense Fund (EDF), a litigation factory for Big Green leftist radicals, published (bought) themselves a “study” in the journal Nature Communications attacking conventional oil and gas wells. The so-called study says older conventional oil and gas wells that produce small amounts (less than 15 barrels of oil or the equivalent amount of gas a day), which represent only 6% of America’s total oil and gas production, contribute 50% of the country’s fugitive methane emissions.
Last week the U.S. Energy Information Administration published data from U.S. wells completed from 2010-2021. The data shows that in 2021, 81% of U.S. well completions were horizontal or directional (i.e. shale wells), as opposed to 19% drilled vertical-only (conventional). The data also shows the length of wells has doubled from 2010 to 2021–going from an average of 7,300 feet in 2010 to 15,200 feet in 2021.
The leftists who have taken over the International Energy Agency (IEA) told the world last year that new oil and gas exploration should immediately stop worldwide in order to save Planet Earth from Global Warming monsters (see 
It appears the venerable number crunchers at the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) bungled the monthly estimates they forecast quite badly in March, making a revision to the numbers for both the Marcellus/Utica and all seven tracked shale plays in yesterday’s April monthly Drilling Productivity Report. Last month EIA forecasted the M-U would produce 36.848 Bcf/d (billion cubic feet per day) of natural gas in April (see 
The Enverus rig count, as of last Wednesday, stood at 791, even with the same number from the week before. We are still near the highest number of rigs in operation since March 2020, the dawn of the pandemic. We are only 47 rigs away from the pre-pandemic high of 838 rigs. Last week the Marcellus had 41 rigs operating (same as the prior week), while the Utica operated 11 rigs (dropping two rigs), for a total of 52 active rigs in the M-U. Our chief rival, the Louisiana and Texas Haynesville, operated 69 rigs last week, dropping three rigs from the week before.
You can’t escape mainstream media, and even many in the oil and gas industry, talking about hydrogen. The word is whispered in hallowed tones like a magic talisman. The “future of energy” is (shhhh) hydrogen, we are told. Even anti-fossil fuel cultists love hydrogen, albeit they are prejudiced–they only like certain colors of hydrogen (see