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  • Industrywide Issues | Pipelines

    New Trend? Bi-Directional NatGas Pipelines in Marcellus/Utica

    October 14, 2013October 14, 2013

    A new and interesting trend is beginning to happen in the Marcellus/Utica region: flexible pipelines. No, we don’t mean natural gas pipelines traditionally manufactured from steel are now being manufactured with a new material–we mean the flows of gas moving along pipelines is starting to reverse and flow in the opposite direction, depending on the time of year.

    In wintertime the northeast uses more natural gas than can be produced in the Marcellus/Utica alone, and as has been the case for decades, pipelines bring gas supplies into the northeast from other areas of the country. However, with the explosion of production coming from the Marcellus/Utica, at other times of the year the Marcellus/Utica produces more than enough gas, and so some pipelines are starting to upgrade so they can flow the gas in the opposite direction. However, as industry giant Rusty Braziel notes, it ain’t easy to just change directions…
    Read More “New Trend? Bi-Directional NatGas Pipelines in Marcellus/Utica”

  • Industrywide Issues | Pennsylvania | Statewide PA | Supply Chain

    Marcellus Supply Chain Lessons: Local Drillers & WOM

    October 14, 2013October 14, 2013

    Do you work for a small or medium-sized business and want to plug in to the Marcellus Shale supply chain? Judy Wojanis, from the Wojanis Hydraulic Supply Co. in the Pittsburgh area, has a few pieces of sage advice…
    Read More “Marcellus Supply Chain Lessons: Local Drillers & WOM”

  • Hydraulic Fracturing | Industrywide Issues | Litigation | Ohio | Regulation | Statewide OH

    Home Rule Case Before OH Supreme Court – Background

    October 14, 2013October 14, 2013

    In 2004 the Ohio legislature passed a law that gives “sole and exclusive authority to regulate the permitting, location and spacing of oil and gas wells” to the Ohio Dept. of Natural Resources (ODNR). However, like Pennsylvania, New York and West Virginia, local municipalities have bridled against a law that says locals have no say in where an oil or gas well may be drilled. And like those other Marcellus/Utica states, Ohio municipalities have sued to overturn the law.

    In June MDN told you the Ohio Supreme Court has accepted a case that challenges the 2004 Ohio law restricting so-called “home rule” or the right for municipalities to zone oil and gas wells (see Home Rule Case Heads to Ohio Supreme Court). With that case now under active consideration by the OH Supremes, here’s a bit more background…
    Read More “Home Rule Case Before OH Supreme Court – Background”

  • Commodity Price | Industrywide Issues

    How Low Can You Go? Northeast NatGas Prices Dip Below Henry Hub

    October 14, 2013October 14, 2013

    In what increasingly appears to be a game of limbo, or “how low can you go,” natural gas prices in the northeastern part of the U.S. keep going down. In a reversal of past trends, many of the market points in the northeast are beginning to slip below the benchmark Henry Hub market point price in Louisiana.

    What does it mean? It means residents in one of the most populous areas of the country, the northeastern U.S., are now paying less for natural gas than they did just a few years ago because the gas they are using now is produced nearby in the Marcellus and increasingly in the Utica Shale region. There is so much locally produced shale gas, it’s causing big changes in the natgas marketplace, as noted by the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA)…
    Read More “How Low Can You Go? Northeast NatGas Prices Dip Below Henry Hub”

  • Hydraulic Fracturing | Industrywide Issues | Pennsylvania | Statewide PA

    MSC Releases Recommended Practices for Drilling & Completions

    October 14, 2013October 14, 2013

    There are the rules and regulations that drillers must follow, issued by state laws and by regulatory agencies like the PA Dept. of Environmental Protection, the WV Dept. of Environmental Protection, and the Ohio Dept. of Natural Resources. The rules & regs are non-negotiable. But then there are “best” or “recommended” practices–those things drillers can and should do that go above and beyond the letter of the law. The Marcellus Shale Coalition, whose members are many of the largest energy companies in the world, has issued seven such “recommended practices” documents to date for its members. They’ve just released the eighth, titled “Recommended Practices for Drilling and Completions.”

    This latest set of practices is arguably one of the most important, affecting how drillers drill–everything from spacing to safety to well control technologies…
    Read More “MSC Releases Recommended Practices for Drilling & Completions”

  • Best of the Rest

    Marcellus & Utica Shale Story Links: Mon, Oct 14, 2013

    October 14, 2013October 14, 2013

    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, Oct 14, 2013”

  • Energy Services | Industrywide Issues | M&A | PVR Midstream | PVR Partners | Regency Energy Partners

    Marcellus/Utica Midstreamer PVR Bought by Regency Energy for $5.6B

    October 11, 2013October 11, 2013

    bigger fish smaller fishPVR Partners, formerly known as Penn Virginia Resource Partners, will now just be formerly. Period. PVR is a major midstream company (pipelines and processing plants) with big operations in the PA Marcellus Shale after buying Chief Gathering last year (see PVR Buys Chief Gathering/Marcellus Pipelines for $1B). They also announced last year that they would spend $380 million to expand pipelines in NE PA (see PVR Announces $380 Million Investment in NE PA Marcellus), and very recently PVR announced a deal with Hess to build a pipeline system in eastern OH (see PVR Partners to Build $150M Utica Shale Pipeline System for Hess).

    Yesterday Texas-based Regency Energy Partners and PVR announced that Regency will buy out PVR for $5.6 billion. Regency, also a midstream company, owns some assets in the Marcellus/Utica, but most of their operations are in the Southwest and West, so this purchase gives them a major presence in the rapidly-expanding midstream sector of the Marcellus/Utica. After the buyout is completed, the PVR name will be no more…
    Read More “Marcellus/Utica Midstreamer PVR Bought by Regency Energy for $5.6B”

  • Health Impacts | Hydraulic Fracturing | Industrywide Issues | New York | Regulation | Statewide NY

    Cuomo Says NY Doing a Good Job on Frack Health Review (LOL)

    October 11, 2013October 11, 2013

    Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. Oh, sorry, but we just could not stop laughing when we saw a quote made by Gov. Andy “he without a spine” Cuomo yesterday. With respect to the now year-long health review of proposed fracking regulations in New York–a review that was supposed to be done “within the next few weeks” back in February–Cuomo actually, incredulously said (please, try not to roll on the ground laughing like we just did): “I think we’re doing a good job on it.”

    Andy must have a REALLY low opinion about the intelligence of the average NY voter…

    Read More “Cuomo Says NY Doing a Good Job on Frack Health Review (LOL)”

  • CBM Ohio | Energy Companies | Harrison County | Lease & Royalty Payments | Ohio | Utica Shale

    Harrison County, OH Leases 357 Acres to CBM Ohio for $5K/19%

    October 11, 2013October 11, 2013

    CBM Ohio, a company that until now has concentrated on producing coalbed methane (hence the name), is venturing into producing natural gas from the Utica Shale.

    CBM’s first Utica foray comes in leasing 357 acres of county-owned land in Harrison County, OH. On Wednesday, Harrison County officials signed a lease with CBM for $5,000 per acre signing bonus and 19% royalties…
    Read More “Harrison County, OH Leases 357 Acres to CBM Ohio for $5K/19%”

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

    MSC to PA Dem Gubernatorial Candidates: Nix the Big Tax Idea

    October 11, 2013October 11, 2013

    Most (all?) of the candidates who have announced they are running for the Democrat nomination for governor in Pennsylvania have said they will (a) increase regulation on the Marcellus Shale industry, and (b) dramatically increase taxes on the industry. Democrats either don’t know or don’t care that such taxes suffocate businesses and cause those businesses to go elsewhere. It’s a fact, not a threat.

    The Marcellus Shale Coalition (MSC)–a group of some of the biggest drillers and midstream companies in the Marcellus–have weighed in and are giving PA’s Democrat gubernatorial candidates a verbal slap about their plans to tax and regulate…
    Read More “MSC to PA Dem Gubernatorial Candidates: Nix the Big Tax Idea”

  • Industrywide Issues | Pennsylvania | Research | Statewide PA

    PA DEP Files Required Report on So-Called Climate Change Affects

    October 11, 2013October 11, 2013

    Let’s assume, just for the sake of argument, that there really is a Santa Claus. Let’s further assume brilliant politicians in Pennsylvania want a state government agency to do a “scientific study” of the physics of how Santa can visit all of the homes in PA in a single night–Dec. 24–and still make it home to the North Pole in time to eat cookies by sunrise. The purpose of the report is to reassure the little kiddies that Santie is real and yes, he can and does get it all done in a single night.

    Now assume that those same PA politicians believe in another fairy story–something called man-made global warming (now renamed to “climate change” because the earth’s so-called average temperature hasn’t risen in the last 15 years)–and that said politicians directed a state agency–the Dept. of Environmental Protection–to draft up a document detailing how the big, bad bogeyman of global warming will affect all the little boys and girls in PA, and oh, by the way, don’t forget to sprinkle the report with lots of talk about “renewables” because we hate nasty fossil fuels, ya know. And snap snap, get that report written PDQ!

    Unfortunately, the second scenario above is true. And when the DEP was late in filing this exercise in fantasyland, PA eco-nuts and anti-drillers got their knickers in a twist. They can untwist them now–the fairy story report is finally here…
    Read More “PA DEP Files Required Report on So-Called Climate Change Affects”

  • Anti-Drilling/Fossil Fuel | Industrywide Issues | Pennsylvania | Regulation | Taxation | Washington County

    PA Anti-Fracking Gatecrashers Outside, Real Work Gets Done Inside

    October 11, 2013October 11, 2013

    We know everyone likes a good story, so… Once upon a time there were four anti-drillers: Craig Stevens (from Dimock, PA, he of the little brown jug that supposedly contains contaminated drinking water from his well but he won’t let anyone test it); Ray Kemble (also from Dimock, PA); Robert Lee McCaslin (from Bath, NY); and Randy Moyer (from Portage, PA). None of these anti-drillers apparently have day jobs because they travel around the northeast like groupies following their favorite rock band–except in reverse. This band of merry anti-frackers travel about the countryside trying to gatecrash pro-drilling meetings. (Every now and again they do attend a meeting of the anti-drilling faithful–just to get some good juju to keep going.)

    Anywho…our merry band of four anti-frackers descended on a peaceful meeting of elected PA officials in far western PA yesterday, and the Washington Observer-Reporter was there to report on the four anti-frackers outside instead of the 100 elected officials inside…
    Read More “PA Anti-Fracking Gatecrashers Outside, Real Work Gets Done Inside”

  • Antero Resources | Energy Companies

    Antero’s Stock Climbs 18% on First Day of Trading

    October 11, 2013October 11, 2013

    The news continues to be good for Antero Resources, one of the biggest drillers in the Marcellus Shale that went public two days ago raising a boatload of money (see Antero’s IPO Fetches $1.57B, Company Valued at $11B!). In the first full day of trading (yesterday), Antero’s stock price just kept going up and up and up…
    Read More “Antero’s Stock Climbs 18% on First Day of Trading”

  • Pennsylvania | Statewide PA

    PA Natural Gas Advisory Committee Holds First Meeting

    October 11, 2013October 11, 2013

    Hats off to the Pennsylvania Dept. of Conservation and Natural Resources for convening the first-ever meeting of the Natural Gas Advisory Committee (NGAC) on Wednesday, Oct. 9 in State College, PA. NGAC membership is composed of people from the drilling industry, academe and even anti-drilling environmental groups (like Trout Unlimited). It’s quite a feat to get them all in the same room and talking to each other.

    NGAC was a recommendation that came out of Gov. Tom Corbett’s Marcellus Shale Advisory Commission, chaired by Lt. Gov. Jim Cawley. Here’s who attended, and what was on the agenda:
    Read More “PA Natural Gas Advisory Committee Holds First Meeting”

  • Best of the Rest

    Marcellus & Utica Shale Story Links: Fri, Oct 11, 2013

    October 11, 2013October 11, 2013

    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: Fri, Oct 11, 2013”

  • American Energy Partners | American Energy Utica | Energy Companies | Ohio | Statewide OH | Utica Shale

    McClendon Gets a Little Help ($1.7B) from His Friends in OH Utica

    October 10, 2013October 10, 2013

    I get by with a little help from my friendsAfter the mass(acre) firings at Chesapeake Energy earlier this week (see The Great Chesapeake Massacre: Lawler Fires 800 People in One Day), we expect there may be a line out of the door at the Oklahoma City-based American Energy Partners (AEP), a company founded by former Chesapeake CEO, Aubrey McClendon–who was fired from Chesapeake earlier this year. Fired Chesapeake employees may have good reason to head on over to AEP HQ.

    Yesterday McClendon announced AEP has raised $1.7 billion and plans to use that money this year to (a) snap up 110,000+ acres in the OH Utica, and (b) begin drilling on that acreage. He even has deals set up with midstream companies for gathering and processing. The details from McClendon and AEP (cue music to “With a Little Help from my Friends” by the Beatles):
    Read More “McClendon Gets a Little Help ($1.7B) from His Friends in OH Utica”

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