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  • Anti-Drilling/Fossil Fuel | Industrywide Issues | Pennsylvania | Statewide PA

    PA AG Casts Doubt on DEP’s Response to Water Complaints in New ‘Guide’

    October 1, 2014October 1, 2014

    As MDN reported in July, Pennsylvania’s sleazy Auditor General, Eugene DePasquale (Democrat) went on a two-year witch hunt to find any little dust bunny he could to denigrate another state agency, the Dept. of Environmental Protection (see Anti-Drilling PA Auditor General Criticizes DEP in “Report”). As we stated at the time, many of the things he criticized the DEP about occurred under the watch of Democrat Gov. Ed Rendel and then-Sec. of the DEP John Hanger. But that doesn’t stop anti-drilling “reporters” like the PBS smearmeisters at StateImpact Pennsylvania from using the report to knock the DEP one more time. DePasquale is back with another a so-called “Citizen’s Guide” to shale gas development (copy below). In the latest anti-drilling propaganda issued by DePasquale using taxpayer’s money and on Auditor General letterhead, DePasquale outrageously implies that the DEP is untrustworthy and that the DEP website may contain information that’s not accurate…
    Read More “PA AG Casts Doubt on DEP’s Response to Water Complaints in New ‘Guide’”

  • Industrywide Issues | Lease & Royalty Payments | Litigation | Ohio | Statewide OH

    OH 7th Circuit Court of Appeals Decision on Dormant Minerals Act

    October 1, 2014October 2, 2014

    A few weeks ago MDN told you about the important court case before the Ohio Supreme Court concerning the 1989 and 2006 Ohio Dormant Minerals Act (see Video: OH Lawyers Explain Dormant Minerals Act & Impact on Utica). While the OH Supremes have not yet ruled, there was a ruling on the periphery of the DMA from the Seventh District Court of Appeals concerning the 1989 version of the DMA a few days after our post…
    Read More “OH 7th Circuit Court of Appeals Decision on Dormant Minerals Act”

  • Anti-Drilling/Fossil Fuel | CNG/LNG | Dominion Energy | Energy Services | Exporting | Industrywide Issues | Maryland | Processing Plants | Statewide MD

    FWW Bleats About “Sacrificing” Residents Near Cove Point LNG Plant

    October 1, 2014October 1, 2014

    The odious and misnamed Food & Water Watch, a virulently anti-drilling group, is none-to-pleased with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s approval of the Cove Point, MD LNG export facility (see Dominion Gets Final Fed Approval to Build Cove Point LNG Plant). The wacko environmentalists at FWW (childlike, really) threw a press release temper tantrum yesterday, declaring FERC has chosen to “sacrifice” the rural residents who live a mile away from the proposed plant in favor of fat corporate profits for Dominion. So predictable…
    Read More “FWW Bleats About “Sacrificing” Residents Near Cove Point LNG Plant”

  • CNG/LNG | Dominion Energy | Energy Services | Exporting | Industrywide Issues | Maryland | Regulation | Statewide MD

    Dominion Gets Final Fed Approval to Build Cove Point LNG Plant

    September 30, 2014September 30, 2014

    happy dance - SnoopyBlow the horns…cheer and clap and celebrate. Let’s all do a happy dance! Yesterday the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) issued a final approval to Dominion for their liquefied natural gas (LNG) export facility in Cove Point, Maryland. And that’s following anti-drillers behaving badly at a recent FERC meeting (see 20 People Crash FERC Meeting, Complain about Cove Point LNG). Looks like the antics of people taking over a FERC meeting didn’t impress the commissioners. Following the FERC announcement Dominion issued their own announcement (both announcements are below) to say as soon as they review FERC’s final “order” on the plant they will seek a “Notice to Proceed” from FERC and then (very soon) construction will begin…
    Read More “Dominion Gets Final Fed Approval to Build Cove Point LNG Plant”

  • Energy Services | Industrywide Issues | Kinder Morgan | Pipelines | Spectra Energy

    Spectra Energy Asks Maine PUC to Support Its Pipeline Project

    September 30, 2014September 30, 2014

    Two weeks ago MDN told you about Kinder Morgan’s “historic” proposal filed with the Maine Public Utilities Commission offering the State of Maine a long-term contract for natural gas pipeline capacity with the goal of lowering overall energy costs for Maine consumers (see Kinder Morgan Sweet Talks Maine to Support Mass. Pipeline). The catch is that Maine will assess a fee on all of their electric customers to raise the money they would pay to Kinder for Kinder to help build their proposed extension of the Tennessee Gas Pipeline across Massachusetts to deliver cheap, abundant Marcellus Shale gas to New England. Not to be outdone, Spectra Energy yesterday sent their proposal to Maine, to try and get Maine to support their project instead of Kinder’s…
    Read More “Spectra Energy Asks Maine PUC to Support Its Pipeline Project”

  • American Energy Partners | Chesapeake Energy | Energy Companies

    High Level Defection from Chesapeake Energy to McClendon’s AEP

    September 30, 2014September 30, 2014

    Somehow John Reinhart, lately Senior Vice President for Operations and Technical Services at Chesapeake Energy in charge of 1,400 people, survived the mass firings by corporate raider Carl Icahn and his toady Doug Lawler, the nominal CEO of Chesapeake (see Chesapeake’s CEO Celebrates Axing 1,200 People Making Carl More $). So it must have really hurt when Reinhart defected, as was announced yesterday, to go to work as Chief Operating Officer of Utica/Marcellus for his old boss Aubrey McClendon over at Chesapeake II–known as American Energy Partners (AEP). Like a phoenix rising rising from the ashes…
    Read More “High Level Defection from Chesapeake Energy to McClendon’s AEP”

  • Energy Services | Ethane | Harrison County | Industrywide Issues | Kinder Morgan | NGLs | NOVA Chemicals | Ohio | Pipelines | Statewide OH | Utica Shale

    Canadian NOVA Chemicals to Ship Utica Ethane via UTOPIA

    September 30, 2014September 30, 2014

    In December, midstream company Kinder Morgan announced they would build a 210-mile, 10-inch natural gas liquids (NGL) pipeline that will carry Utica ethane and propane from Harrison County, OH, to Riga, MI. From Riga, the NGLs will hitch a ride via the KM Cochin Pipeline east to Windsor, Ontario, Canada (see UTOPIA is Coming! The UTOPIA Pipeline, that is…). Earlier this month MDN told you that UTOPIA launched an open season to sign up customers for the pipeline (see UTOPIA Open Season Begins Today – OH to MI NGL Pipeline). Not surprisingly, Kinder has just announced that NOVA Chemicals, owner of the Corunna ethane cracker plant in Ontario, has signed up as one of Kinder’s main customers for UTOPIA. We did, however, notice a few interesting things about this latest announcement…
    Read More “Canadian NOVA Chemicals to Ship Utica Ethane via UTOPIA”

  • Blue Ridge Mtn Res/Magnum Hunter | Deep Well Services | Energy Companies | Energy Services | Tyler County | Utica Shale | West Virginia

    PA Snubbing Company Helped Drill Utica’s #1 Well

    September 30, 2014September 30, 2014

    Last week MDN told you about the new reigning champion for most-productive Utica well ever, a well drilled in West Virginia by Magnum Hunter Resources (see Magnum Hunter Takes the Prize: Top Producing Utica Well). Two and a half weeks ago MDN told you about Deep Well Services (DWS), a “snubbing” company based in Pennsylvania (see PA “Snubbing” Company DWS Experiences Rapid Expansion). It seems there’s a connection between the two stories. DWS issued a press release yesterday to point out they were involved with working on the Magnum Hunter champion Utica well…
    Read More “PA Snubbing Company Helped Drill Utica’s #1 Well”

  • Anti-Drilling/Fossil Fuel | Industrywide Issues | New York | Statewide NY

    NY Anti-Drillers Offer Cuomo a Tour of PA Fracking

    September 30, 2014September 30, 2014

    This one is really funny. The bizarre people who run New Yorkers Against Fracking, namely Sandra Steingraber, who gets paid by Ithaca College to travel around trash talking fracking, and a few others from virulent anti-fossil fuel groups, have dogged New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo everywhere he goes for the past two years. They pester him so much that when one of their nutty number isn’t at one of his public events, Cuomo’s daughter wonders if the stars are out of alignment (see NY Gov Cuomo Comments on Fracking, Hounding by Protesters). Those same ever-present protesters recently sent a letter to Cuomo offering to take him on a tour of Pennsylvania’s gas drilling areas. Are they just temporarily nuts? Or permanently insane? Do they really think he would ever, in this life, accept such an offer?…
    Read More “NY Anti-Drillers Offer Cuomo a Tour of PA Fracking”

  • Economic Impact | Industrywide Issues | Lease & Royalty Payments | Ohio | Statewide OH | Utica Shale

    MWCD Cuts Watershed Fee 50% Thanks to Utica Shale Revenue

    September 30, 2014September 30, 2014

    Here’s a good news story for millions of Ohio residents who are fortunate enough to live in the Muskingum Watershed. After some initial timidity, the board members of the Mukingum Watershed Conservancy District (MWCD), charged with managing 8,000 square miles of rivers, reservoirs and creeks that drain into the Muskingum River (covering 20% of the state), decided in 2012 to lease MWCD-owned land for Utica Shale drilling. Since that time they’ve received more than $175 million in signing bonuses. With royalties that eventually will come in, it’s not inconceivable that the MWCD will rake in over $1 billion in revenue from Utica lease activity. They’ve already committed to reinvesting $300 million over the next 10 years (see MWCD Reinvesting $300M of Utica Shale Revenue over Next 10 Yrs). The further good news for residents in the Watershed is that the fees they pay to the MWCD will go down–by 50%–starting next year. Thanks to the Utica Shale…
    Read More “MWCD Cuts Watershed Fee 50% Thanks to Utica Shale Revenue”

  • Industrywide Issues | Ohio | Pennsylvania | Research | Statewide OH | Statewide PA | Wastewater

    GAO Issues Report on Class II Injection Well Fluid Info Collection

    September 30, 2014September 30, 2014

    Several anti-drilling U.S. senators and congressman requested that the Government Accountability Office (GAO) conduct research and issue a report to describe what information the federal EPA and the individual states collect from class II injection well operators on the characteristics of injected fluids. That is, the Dems wanted the GAO to write a book report on just how nasty and vile the chemicals are from oil and gas drilling that get injected deep into the earth, never to return, and how those nasty chemicals may one day pollute all of our drinking water supplies. The Democrat staffers at the GAO were only too happy to comply. Both Pennsylvania and Ohio’s programs are part of the “study”…
    Read More “GAO Issues Report on Class II Injection Well Fluid Info Collection”

  • Electrical Generation | Industrywide Issues | Research

    Natgas Used for Heating Homes Up in Northeast, Down Elsewhere

    September 30, 2014September 30, 2014

    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…
    Read More “Natgas Used for Heating Homes Up in Northeast, Down Elsewhere”

  • Best of the Rest

    Marcellus & Utica Shale Story Links: Tue, Sep 30, 2014

    September 30, 2014September 30, 2014

    The “best of the rest” – stories that caught MDN’s eye that you may be interested in reading:
    Read More “Marcellus & Utica Shale Story Links: Tue, Sep 30, 2014”

  • Columbia Pipeline Group | Energy Services | NiSource

    NiSource Splits in Two: Columbia Pipeline Will be Separate Company

    September 29, 2014September 29, 2014

    Breaking Up is Not So Hard to DoNiSource 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 Columbia Gas: $1.75B for 2 Projects to Send Marcellus Gas to Gulf). NiSource has decided and in an unusual move announced yesterday (Sunday) that they are splitting the company in two. NiSource the utility will remain focused on being a utility, and Columbia Gas will be spun off into it’s own company called Columbia Pipeline Group (CPG) under a master limited partnership (MLP) structure. MLPs issue “units” instead of shares of stock–although functionally they are about the same thing. Here’s the details from NiSource…
    Read More “NiSource Splits in Two: Columbia Pipeline Will be Separate Company”

  • Ethane | Industrywide Issues | Pennsylvania | Processing Plants | Washington County

    Thailand & Japan Partner to Build 3rd Big Marcellus Ethane Cracker

    September 29, 2014September 29, 2014

    Word has leaked out that Thailand’s largest chemical company–Bangkok-based PTT Global Chemical–and Japan’s fifth largest general trading company/conglomerates–Tokyo-based Marubeni Corp.–have formed an alliance and are actively looking to build an ethane cracker plant in the Marcellus/Utica region. The first such ethane cracker was announced by Shell in 2012, to be located in Beaver County, PA. The second was announced last year by Odebrecht, targeted to be built in Parkersburg, WV. We also recently told you about a “baby cracker”–a much smaller version of an ethane cracker coming to Monroe County, OH (see Ohio to Get “Baby” Ethane Cracker Originally Slated for WV). The PTT/Marubeni cracker will be the third big/major cracker plant for the northeast–with the caveat “if built” (which applies to all of these projects). The word on the street is that PTT/Marubeni have been looking for nearly a year…
    Read More “Thailand & Japan Partner to Build 3rd Big Marcellus Ethane Cracker”

  • Antero Resources | Energy Companies | Gulfport Energy | Hall Drilling | Hess | Monroe County | Ohio | Utica Shale

    OH Utica Shale’s Most Productive Wells in 2Q14

    September 29, 2014September 29, 2014

    Recently released production numbers from the Ohio Dept. of Natural Resources (ODNR) show a bit of a surprise. The single most productive Utica Shale well during second quarter 2014 (April – June) was from one of the smallest drillers. A well drilled by Hall Drilling (headquartered in West Virginia) in Monroe County, OH produced 1.43 billion cubic feet of natural gas during 2Q14. Other top-producing wells were drilled by Gulfport Energy, Antero Resources and Hess. Here’s some numbers…
    Read More “OH Utica Shale’s Most Productive Wells in 2Q14”

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