Invenergy blasted out a press release yesterday to announce that their 1,480 megawatt, $1 billion Marcellus gas-fired electric plant, called the Lackawanna Energy Center (located near Scranton, PA) is now fully, 100%, online.
Read More “PA’s Largest NatGas-Fired Electric Plant Officially Online”
Braskem USA, headquartered in Philadelphia had a decision to make in 2016: Locate a new polypropylene plant in their own backyard, at the Marcus Hook refinery site on the outskirts of Philly–or locate it in Texas. They picked Texas because not enough NGLs (propane) were flowing to Marcus Hook due to delays (caused by Big Green lawsuits) in the Mariner East 2 pipeline.
Read More “Delayed ME2 Pipeline Cost PA a $675M Plastics Plant + 1K Lost Jobs”
The mystery is now solved. Last week we incorrectly (based on a Pittsburgh Tribune-Review article) reported that FirstEnergy wants to drill a well under (not on) Linbrook Park, located in the Borough of Franklin Park in Allegheny County (see original story here). It’s not FirstEnergy but PennEnergy that wants to do the drilling.
Read More “Big Crowd Turns Out to Support/Oppose Drilling Under SWPA Park”
According to RBN Energy, “U.S. production of natural gas liquids is projected to increase by 17% this year, and by another 10% in 2020.” NGLs cover a variety of hydrocarbons. Two NGLs, propane and butane, are further classified as LPG–or liquefied petroleum gas. Of the four “smaller” LPG export facilities here in the U.S., two-thirds of all exported LPGs last year came from one–Energy Transfer’s Marcus Hook refinery near Philadelphia.
Read More “East Coast Dominates LPG Exports via Philly’s Marcus Hook”
We’ve been tracking a story since November about a new, smallish (but very important) LNG export plant coming to Bradford County, PA, to Wyalusing (see Big News! Marcellus LNG Export Plant Coming to Landlocked NEPA). In order to build the $800 million facility, a LOT of workers, and housing, will be needed.
Read More “Bradford County Conducts Housing Survey to Prepare for LNG Plant”
Our friend Tom Shepstone (Natural Gas Now) is a dangerous man…dangerous to anti-fossil fuelers. He’s dangerous because he’s smart, and because he has the unique ability to expose “the man behind the curtain” pulling the levers and pushing the buttons with respect to fracktivism and those who fund it. Tom has done it again, this time exposing the fraudsters behind a Pennsylvania group called Damascus Citizens for Sustainability.
Read More “Going on Offense: Exposing PA Anti Group & Their Funders”
The Pennsylvania Dept. of Conservation and Natural Resources (DCNR), every now and again, will lease state-owned land for gas drilling. The DCNR has just leased land under the Youghiogheny River in Allegheny and Westmoreland counties. We have the full lease, and lease terms, below…
Read More “PA Leases Youghiogheny River Land in SWPA to Chevron $4K/Ac”
NOTE: This story and the headline have been updated to correct an earlier error from the source we used. It is not FirstEnergy but PennEnergy that is proposing to drill under the park.
We spotted a second story today about a new lease, in this case proposed lease terms, for land in southwestern Pennsylvania. This time the driller, PennEnergy, wants to drill under (not on) a town park that sits on the border of Allegheny and Beaver counties.
Read More “PennEnergy Offers $3.5K/Ac to Drill Under SWPA Town Park”
Score a minor victory for the odious Philadelphia Clean Air Council in their fight to block any/all fossil fuel projects any/everywhere. They’ve convinced the PA Environmental Hearing Board to question a previously issued air quality permit for the Marcus Hook refinery in Delaware County, near Philadelphia.
Read More “PA Enviro Hearing Board Rejects Air Permit for Marcus Hook”
Bureaucracies move about as fast as the glaciers in Antarctica. It doesn’t matter where the bureaucracy is located–federal, local, or in this case, state government.
Read More “PA DEP Comes into 21st Century with e-Permits for Shale Wells”
Yesterday Chesapeake Energy issued a preliminary report on fourth quarter 2018 results, and an operational update looking ahead to 2019. Embedded in the 2018 information is some blow-the-doors-off big news!
Read More “Chesapeake Drills Monster Record-Breaking Marcellus Wells in NEPA”
Huntley & Huntley of Monroeville, PA is doing it again. The company previously requested permits for 9 wells in Upper Burrell (Westmoreland County), PA. They’ve just filed for two more permits in Upper Burrell.
Read More “Huntley & Huntley Proposes Shale Wells 10 & 11 in Upper Burrell”
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”
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”