Marietta, OH, Passes 3 Resolutions Against Injection Wells
In August, Marietta, OH, officials, including the city’s Republican mayor, law director, water superintendent, and a majority of city council members, asked the Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR) Oil and Gas to deny a permit application from DeepRock Disposal Solutions for the Stephan #1 injection well, which would be the company’s fifth injection well in the area (see Marietta, OH Officials Ask ODNR to Deny Permit for Injection Well). In September, the ODNR rejected Marietta’s appeal and went ahead and issued a permit for the well (see ODNR Rejects Marietta Hearing Request, Issues Injection Well Permit). Earlier this month, the Marietta City Council passed three resolutions to block new injection wells in the area. One resolution asks the state to block new injection wells statewide! Read More “Marietta, OH, Passes 3 Resolutions Against Injection Wells”
In October of last year, MDN told you that both EQT Corporation and Tenaska are “dipping their toes” in the carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) space (see 
An article appearing in the Peekskill (NY) Herald has this headline: “Natural Gas Pipelines: A Path to Renewable Energy?” The subhead reads, “Several projects propose solutions that address the threat of statewide energy shortages in the near future.” The article highlights four active pipeline projects in the Empire State that we have covered multiple times. These pipelines would flow more Marcellus gas from Pennsylvania (perhaps beyond) into New York and New England. They include Enbridge’s Project Maple, Williams’ Northeast Supply Enhancement (NESE), Williams’ Constitution Pipeline, and Iroquois Gas Transmission’s Iroquois Enhancement by Compression (ExC). Where does each project stand? 
OTHER U.S. REGIONS: Texas first commercial produced water Li plant under construction; Japan’s JERA to buy US shale gas assets for $1.5 bln; NATIONAL: U.S. natural gas futures slip ahead of storage data; BP, JERA halt US offshore wind activities; The war on gas stoves is not over – but Trump admin is fighting back; Kinder Morgan posts higher third-quarter profit on stronger natural gas demand; In practice, ‘net zero’ was exactly how much such pledges were worth; INTERNATIONAL: Oil closes higher as oversold signals ease; EU adopts new sanctions on Russian energy; Halliburton is branching into data-center power supplies as frack demand stagnates; US, Qatar warn EU sustainability law threatens continued LNG supply. 
The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) is a federally owned electric utility corporation in the U.S. TVA’s service area covers all of Tennessee, portions of Alabama, Mississippi, and Kentucky, and small areas of Georgia, North Carolina, and Virginia. TVA is the country’s sixth-largest power supplier and the largest public utility company. In May 2023, TVA announced that it would convert the Kingston Fossil Plant (coal-fired) in East Tennessee to become a natural gas-fired plant capable of generating 1,500 megawatts of electricity (see 
CNX Resources is partnering with Chicago real estate giant JLL to market and lease the 1,500-acre Zediker Station site in South Strabane Township, about 20 miles south of Pittsburgh. The property offers 400 buildable acres, access to natural gas reserves and ample water, and features a unique, carbon-neutral power solution. The companies are pitching Remediated Mine Gas (RMG)—methane captured from coal mine ventilation systems—which, when blended with traditional natural gas, can achieve carbon-neutral power generation for a potential data center. 
The Pennsylvania Energy Ecosystem Conference was held yesterday at Washington & Jefferson College’s Center for Energy Policy and Management in conjunction with the Central Appalachian Partnership for Carbon Storage Deployment. The event featured industry leaders, policymakers, and other experts. We’re not sure what the focus of the event was last year, but the star of this year’s conference was natural gas, and, to a lesser extent, coal. In other words, fossil fuels took center stage. 
In two weeks, all Pennsylvania voters will have the opportunity to vote on whether to “retain” (elect for another 10 years) three radical-left Democrat State Supreme Court justices. Justices Christine Donohue, Kevin Dougherty, and David Wecht were all elected as Democrats in 2015, and their party has held a majority on the state’s high court since. They have made many decisions that are activist and favor the Democrat Party at the expense of ordinary residents of the state. It’s time for them to go. We have a couple of very good reasons why you (if you live in PA) should vote “no” on retention: Their votes in two cases have fundamentally damaged the Marcellus industry in the state. 
Venture Global is building a new LNG export facility in Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana, approximately 20 miles south of New Orleans. When fully complete, Plaquemines LNG’s nominal capacity will be 2.6 Bcf/d (3.2 Bcf/d peak). The first portion of the new plant came online in December when it officially shipped its first cargo to Germany. Venture Global said that it would (as it did with the Calcasieu Pass facility it previously built) pretend that Plaquemines LNG is not “commercially ready” while shipping all sorts of LNG cargoes around the world. The practice allows the company to cream the market and make more money for the first couple of years (see 
The front-month NYMEX natural gas futures price soared yesterday (the biggest one-day increase in more than three months), closing up +0.389 (+12.93%) at $3.397/MMBtu. Why? In a word, weather. The price jumped based on forecasts for much colder weather and higher heating demand over the next two weeks than previously expected. Also playing a role is a decline in natural gas output this month and near-record flows of gas to LNG export plants. LSEG (London Stock Exchange Group) said average gas output in the Lower 48 states fell to 106.6 billion cubic feet per day (Bcf/d) so far in October, down from 107.4 Bcf/d in September and a record monthly high of 108.0 Bcf/d in August. 
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has proposed new permitting processes in West Virginia and Ohio that would allow certain fossil fuel projects to be built through wetlands and streams without a public comment opportunity. The proposals would allow mines, natural gas pipelines, hydropower dams, and other energy infrastructure projects in WV and OH to proceed using two simplified permits: “letters of permission” and “regional general permits.” For these projects, water pollution impacts must be limited to 2 acres or less for a letter of permission and 1 acre or less for a regional general permit. This action has the potential to speed up new natural gas pipeline projects in the Marcellus/Utica region. 
Earlier this morning, National Fuel Gas Company, a large utility company headquartered in the Buffalo, NY area with both upstream and midstream subsidiaries (Seneca Resources and NFG Midstream), announced a deal with CenterPoint Energy to acquire CenterPoint’s Ohio natural gas utility business (CNP Ohio) for $2.62 billion. The deal includes 5,900 miles of distribution and transmission pipelines and serves approximately 335,000 residential, commercial, industrial, and transportation customers that consume approximately 60 Bcf of natural gas per year. The deal significantly increases NFG’s gas utility customer base, from roughly 750,000 to well over 1 million. 
In April, MDN told you about a new greenfield expansion of Kinder Morgan’s Elba Express pipeline into South Carolina to serve growing demand for natural gas in the state (see