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  • Industrywide Issues | Pennsylvania | Regulation | Statewide PA | Taxation

    Discussion over Geological Layers has Real Consequences in PA

    June 9, 2014June 9, 2014

    There’s a controversy brewing in Pennsylvania–over how to define what’s conventional and what’s unconventional in oil and gas drilling. It may sound like a boring exercise in obscure geological speak because it involves concepts like the Elk formation. The theological equivalent of “how many angels can dance on the head of a pin?” However, the outcome of this argument/controversy has the power to change the economics of drilling in PA and will impact drillers, landowners, and the state government (i.e. tax revenue). It’s a big deal and the outcome is vitally important…
    Read More “Discussion over Geological Layers has Real Consequences in PA”

  • About MDN | Calendar

    Calendar of Events for Jun 9-22, 2014 [Free]

    June 9, 2014June 9, 2014

    Below are upcoming events for this week and next.

    NOTE: To have an item included, please email it to: calendar@marcellusdrilling.com.
    Read More “Calendar of Events for Jun 9-22, 2014 [Free]”

  • Best of the Rest

    Marcellus & Utica Shale Story Links: Mon, Jun 9, 2014

    June 9, 2014June 9, 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: Mon, Jun 9, 2014”

  • About MDN

    A Rare Day Off

    June 6, 2014

    3 day weekendDear MDN Reader:

    Editor Jim Willis is traveling on Friday, June 6th and taking a rare day off (from writing)–therefore no regular stories. We will catch you up on all the latest news come Monday, June 9th. Have a great weekend and keep fracking!

    – Jim

  • CNX Resources | CONSOL Energy | Energy Companies | Meetings | Range Resources Corp

    DUG East Roundup from Day 1: Range, CONSOL, EIA, FERC

    June 5, 2014June 5, 2014

    roundupSeems that the Developing Unconventional Gas (DUG) East Conference, hosted by Hart Energy this week in Pittsburgh, is generating a lot of news. Unfortunately MDN could not attend DUG East this year. We have, however, done a roundup of interesting and important news from speakers at DUG, including news from CONSOL Energy, Range Resources, the Energy Information Administration (EIA) and the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC)…
    Read More “DUG East Roundup from Day 1: Range, CONSOL, EIA, FERC”

  • Industrywide Issues | Pennsylvania | Statewide PA | Taxation

    PA Raises Another $225M with Impact Fee – List of Who Gets What

    June 5, 2014June 5, 2014

    Pennsylvania did it right when it came to taxing the shale drilling industry. PA Republican Gov. Tom Corbett crafted a part tax/part fee called the impact fee, part of the Act 13 law (which is now threatened to be overturned in court by seven selfish PA towns). The impact fee raises money from drillers. Some 60% of what is raised stays in the towns and counties where the drilling happens. The other 40% is a true tax–“walking around money” that greases the hands of Harrisburg politicians so they can dole it out in political patronage. Still, it’s one of the best systems of taxing drilling we’ve seen. On Tuesday, the latest results were released for who will get how much, by county and township (and other entities). We have the list below…
    Read More “PA Raises Another $225M with Impact Fee – List of Who Gets What”

  • Anti-Drilling/Fossil Fuel | Energy Services | Industrywide Issues | Lebanon County | Pennsylvania | Pipelines | Transco | Williams

    Lebanon, PA Group Coaches Blind Followers to Oppose Pipeline

    June 5, 2014June 5, 2014

    The pattern endlessly repeats itself. A handful of people with an irrational hatred of fossil fuels turn their hatred on anything related to fossil fuels–like a much needed pipeline. Those same people can’t use objective evidence to support their views–they can’t even openly admit what motivates them for fear that they’ll lose support. So they begin a campaign to spread lies (i.e. “talking points”) to mind-numbed robots who can’t think for themselves. They pack a public meeting and all pretty much say the same thing–endlessly regurgitating the talking points handed to them. Many of them, MDN has observed, are old hippies–men bald on top with gray ponytails in the back. You laugh–but it’s true! They also enlist kindred spirits in young people who are frankly inexperienced and too stupid to know better. That pattern is repeating itself once again–this time in Lebanon County, PA…
    Read More “Lebanon, PA Group Coaches Blind Followers to Oppose Pipeline”

  • Hydraulic Fracturing | Industrywide Issues | Wastewater

    New Texas Technology Cleans Frack Water Really Fast

    June 5, 2014June 5, 2014

    Frack wastewater is pretty big deal. Although many drillers recycle it, some don’t or can’t, and it ends up going back into the ground–via an injection well. How much better would it be to clean it up and re-use it? A Texas company is doing just that–with the help of Texas A&M University researchers. ARANA Water Technologies has innovated a new recycling process with some amazing results. Raw frack water goes in, and 26 minutes later the water coming out is 99+ percent free of petroleum hydrocarbons, and metals in the water like arsenic, aluminum, iron, and selenium have been reduced by 90+ percent. While this isn’t strictly a Marcellus/Utica story, we expect this technology will soon be available in the Marcellus/Utica and so is worth highlighting…
    Read More “New Texas Technology Cleans Frack Water Really Fast”

  • Allegheny County | Industrywide Issues | Pennsylvania | Pipelines | Supply Chain

    “Dumping” Leads to 177 Jobs Lost at PA Marcellus Pipeline Plant

    June 5, 2014June 5, 2014

    A strange and sad story. McKeesport (Allegheny County), PA has for many years been known as “Tube City” because of the steel pipes manufactured there by U.S. Steel. Some 157 steelworkers and 20 manager (177 total) were just told they’re being laid off by U.S. Steel. That plant in particular has been manufacturing steel pipes used in the shale drilling industry! The industry is going great guns and expanding like crazy–so why on earth are they laying off people? In a word, dumping…
    Read More ““Dumping” Leads to 177 Jobs Lost at PA Marcellus Pipeline Plant”

  • Best of the Rest

    Marcellus & Utica Shale Story Links: Thu, June 5, 2014

    June 5, 2014June 5, 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: Thu, June 5, 2014”

  • Albany County | Hydraulic Fracturing | Industrywide Issues | Litigation | New York | Regulation | Statewide NY

    Fate of NY Fracking Now in Hands of 7 Judge Court of Appeals

    June 4, 2014June 4, 2014

    court gavelYesterday was an important day for the future of fracking in New York State. Attorneys Tom West (from Albany) and Scott Kurkoski (from Binghamton) argued before the New York State Court of Appeals, NY’s highest court, in the Dryden and Middlefield town ban cases. MDN has some of the comments made at the trial by both sides, a statement from the Joint Landowner’s Coalition of New York (JLCNY), and a rough estimate of when a decision will be rendered…
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  • Blue Ridge Mtn Res/Magnum Hunter | Energy Companies

    Magnum Hunter’s Gary Evans: My Well’s Bigger than Your Well

    June 4, 2014June 4, 2014

    On Monday MDN told you the great news that Rice Energy has the new all-time most productive Utica Shale well (see Rice Energy’s Bigfoot New Reigning Utica Well Champ – 42 Mmcf/d!) Rice’s Bigfoot well is located in Belmont County, OH. Apparently Rice’s announcement upstaged a forthcoming announcement by Gary Evans, CEO of Magnum Hunter Resources (MHR). Lately Gary has been on a mission to raise money for MHR’s drilling program in the Marcellus and Utica. He went on Jim Cramer’s Mad Money program on Monday to do some of his own bragging in what can only be termed “my Utica well’s bigger than your Utica well”…
    Read More “Magnum Hunter’s Gary Evans: My Well’s Bigger than Your Well”

  • Belmont County | EMG | Energy Services | Guernsey County | Harrison County | Industrywide Issues | M&A | MarkWest Energy | Noble County | Ohio | Pipelines | Processing Plants | Summit Midstream

    Summit Midstream Cuts $377M Check for 40% of Ohio Gathering

    June 4, 2014June 4, 2014

    Ohio Gathering is a midstream (pipelines and processing plants) company operating in the southeastern Ohio area–Harrison, Guernsey, Belmont, Noble and Monroe counties. It is a joint venture owned by MarkWest, EMG and until recently, Gulfport Energy. In January MDN told you that Summit Midstream would be buying Gulfport’s 40% ownership interest (see Summit Midstream Closes Deal to Buy 40% Stake in Ohio Gathering). These things take time with lots of lawyers and due dillgence and enough paperwork to re-paper the walls in a dozen homes. The paperwork is done and Summit has cut the check–a $377 million check that will go into the bank account of MarkWest and EMG…
    Read More “Summit Midstream Cuts $377M Check for 40% of Ohio Gathering”

  • Dominion Energy | Energy Services | Industrywide Issues | New York | Pipelines | Statewide NY | Statewide WV | West Virginia

    Dominion Asks FERC for New Compressors in Upstate NY, WV

    June 4, 2014June 4, 2014

    Dominion announced yesterday they have filed applications with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to get permission to beef up two different pipeline systems in the Marcellus region–giving them more capacity to flow abundant, cheap Marcellus gas to northeastern markets. One of the pipelines to receive an upgrade is in upstate New York. The other is a pipeline in West Virginia. In both cases, the upgrades involve either building new compressor plants along the pipeline–or expanding existing compressor stations. The pipeline in WV also includes a new interconnection with another pipeline. Here’s the details on both projects…
    Read More “Dominion Asks FERC for New Compressors in Upstate NY, WV”

  • Broome County | Delaware County | Energy Services | Industrywide Issues | Kinder Morgan | New York | Otsego County | Pennsylvania | Pipelines | Regulation | Schoharie County | Statewide NY | Susquehanna County | Tennessee Gas Pipeline | Williams

    KM Announces Marcellus Pipeline Parallel to Williams Constitution

    June 4, 2014June 4, 2014

    A “this is pretty interesting” story recently crossed our radar. MDN has reported, for several years now, about the Williams Constitution Pipeline being built from Susquehanna County, PA to Schoharie County, NY where it will connect to both the Tennessee Gas Pipeline (TGP) and the Iroquois pipeline (see New Marcellus Constitution Pipeline Announces “Final” Route). We even took you along for an inside look at one of the public comment sessions, called a scoping hearing (see Vicariously Attend FERC Scoping Hearing on Constitution Pipeline). The Constitution will begin construction very soon. Now comes word from Kinder Morgan that they want to build a second pipeline from the Marcellus Shale gas fields of Susquehanna County to their TGP, taking virtually the same route…
    Read More “KM Announces Marcellus Pipeline Parallel to Williams Constitution”

  • Industrywide Issues | Regulation

    Mitch McConnell: EPA Killing Coal is Attack on Middle Class

    June 4, 2014June 5, 2014

    U.S. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (Republican from Kentucky) may not be a true-blue conservative, but he has his good days. Yesterday was one of those days. McConnell blasted the new EPA takeover of the U.S. energy industry by proposing draconian cuts in the stuff you breathe out with every breath–carbon (see Obama’s Climate Madness Metastasizes – EPA Kills Coal Electricity). Kentucky is a coal state and McConnell is hopping mad over the proposed new carbon limits. So he introduced the “Coal Country Protection Act” to defang the EPA. We love his statement on the Senate floor. In it he compares Obama and the Democrats to a Ginsu knife pitchman who deceived us once (on Obamacare) and is deceiving us again (on carbon). Fool me once…
    Read More “Mitch McConnell: EPA Killing Coal is Attack on Middle Class”

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