Natgas Used for Heating Homes Up in Northeast, Down Elsewhere
An article published last week by the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) in their always-excellent Today in Energy online publication compares how different parts of the U.S. heat their homes. Three of the four regions in the U.S., including the northeast, primarily use natural gas as their primary heating fuel. However, only the northeast is seeing an increase in natgas use for home heating. All of the other areas of the country are seeing a decline in natgas use. Instead, they’re using more electricity. And how, you may ask, is electricity being produced? Yep–natgas and coal, primarily…
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NiSource is a very big public utility company (electric & gas) serving 3.8 million customers from the Gulf Coast through the Midwest to New England. Headquartered in Indiana, NiSource is also the parent of Columbia Gas, which owns extensive pipelines and recently announced they would build another two new pipelines in the Marcellus region (see 
Magnum Hunter has announced they’ve drilled the most southern (geographically) Utica Shale well ever drilled. The surprise is that it’s drilled in Tyler County, WV. The further surprise is that it’s one of the most productive Utica or Marcellus well ever drilled. Is it THE most productive well ever drilled? We don’t know for certain, but we think so. The announcement (below) says Magnum Hunter brought the Stewart Winland 1300U online last weekend and that so far, the “current peak rate” of production has been 46.5 million cubic feet per day (Mmcf/d). Truly astonishing…
MDN Editor Jim Willis once again was privileged to attend Shale Insight–THE industry event for the shale industry in the northeast. This year was the first time Shale Insight was held in Pittsburgh. For the first three years of its existence Shale Insight has been held in Philadelphia. Starting this year the event will rotate between Pittsburgh and Philly every other year. This year’s event saw such luminary speakers as Stephen Moore, chief economist from the Heritage Foundation, Dana Perino, former White House press secretary and current host of Fox’s The Five, Randy Cleveland, president of XTO Energy, David Porges, CEO of EQT, Frank Semple, CEO of MarkWest Energy, Bill Richardson, former energy secretary at the DOE and former governor of New Mexico, Tom Ridge, former governor of PA and former secretary of Homeland Security, and a rousing “fire ’em up” address by Sean Hannity, national radio talk show host and Fox News host. The conference ended on a high note with an address by PA Gov. Tom Corbett–in the re-election fight of his life. Corbett is strongly pro-gas, unlike his opponent Tom Wolf. The conference also ran lots of panels on interesting topics like the environment, Act 13 and its implications, drilling and completions–the list goes on. Jim will share his notes in the coming days. For now, below is a roundup of excellent coverage from others who were there…