Freeport LNG Second Loading Dock Gets Final FERC OK to Restart Ops
Freeport LNG’s export terminal with three liquefaction “trains” shut down in June 2022 after an explosion and fire (see Explosion Rocks Freeport LNG Export Plant – Offline for 3 Weeks). What was initially thought to be a three-week outage lasted for ten months! The plant finally returned online in March of this year (see Freeport LNG Plant Back to Full Capacity Using 2.1 Bcf/d of NatGas). However, the plant has not been back to 100% operational status. A second loading dock is still offline. In October, Freeport asked the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) for permission to return Dock 2 to operational status, which would goose output from the current 2.1 Bcf/d to 2.38 Bcf/d (see Freeport LNG Still Not at 100%, Asks FERC to Approve Full Restart). Last Wednesday, FERC finally granted full permission to restart the final pieces that are not online.
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The irrational leftists who inhabit the Biden administration can’t help themselves. They HATE fossil fuels and are doing everything they can to destroy the fossil energy industry using the regulatory power of the Executive Branch. Biden may or may not be aware of the situation (he’s so clueless). Regardless, the Bidenistas have their sites set on damaging fossil fuels with “a battery of rules in the coming months” — at least six significant new regulatory actions to “control” methane emissions.
MARCELLUS/UTICA REGION: At the New York Krazy Klimate Konference; OTHER U.S. REGIONS: Landowner near Sulphur refuses to grant pipeline right-of-way; NATIONAL: Former EQT CEO Murry Gerber to retire from BlackRock board; INTERNATIONAL: Panama logjam could benefit Europe as USA LNG cargoes avoid Asia.
We’ll say it right up front: We told you so. Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro announced yesterday that he will appeal a decision by the Commonwealth Court that blocks PA’s entrance into the obscene Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) carbon tax scheme. Are you surprised? Shocked? We certainly aren’t. Shapiro has just revived a huge threat to the future of the Marcellus Shale industry in the Keystone State. Still happy you voted for Shapiro? No, we didn’t think so.
In February 2021, Northern Oil and Gas, Inc. (NOG), a company that invests in non-operated oil and gas assets (they let others do the drilling), announced it had purchased 64,000 net acres producing ~120 MMcfe/d (million cubic feet equivalent per day) in the Marcellus/Utica from Reliance Industries Limited (see 
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The New York Independent System Operator (NYISO), the nonprofit that oversees the state’s electricity system, has warned New York State for YEARS of coming blackouts if peaker plants in New York City are forced to close in 2025 (see 
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Veteran equity oil and gas analyst Jeff Robertson, managing director with 
Happy Thanksgiving! MDN is taking both Thanksgiving Thursday and Black Friday off. While you’re taking time to be thankful for your friends, family, food, drinks, and other luxuries, take a moment to say THANK YOU to the resources that make this holiday so wonderful: fossil fuels! Below is a video from our friends at Clear Energy Alliance. Watch it (under 4 minutes) to learn just how much oil, natural gas, and coal bring to the table during the holiday season — and every other day of the year.
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Have you ever noticed how the wacko leftists of the so-called environmental movement behave (and talk) as if they are members of a religion? They use religious language all the time to describe their holy mission of cleansing the earth of evil and sinful fossil energy. Check this out. Environuts say an Indiana utility company is “backsliding” on its clean energy goals with its plan to build a gas-fired peaker plant — a plant that makes unreliable renewables (like solar and wind) possible.