Other Stories of Interest: Thu, Jul 20, 2023
NATIONAL: EIA forecasts crude oil prices will increase through 2024; What does the boom in oil and gas projects mean for energy prices?
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Energy Companies | ESG | Industrywide Issues | Olympus/Huntley & Huntley | Pennsylvania | Statewide PA | Tenaska Resources
Tenaska to Sell Responsible Gas from Olympus Energy’s 45 SWPA Wells
In a process that began in December 2021, Olympus Energy (formerly Huntley & Huntley) announced it had contracted with Project Canary to monitor methane emissions from both the company’s drilling operations and the company’s pipeline operations (see Olympus Using Proj Canary to Monitor Drilling & Pipes for Methane). Last July, Olympus achieved Project Canary certification for all of its drilling operations, located in southwestern Pennsylvania (see Olympus Energy Gets Project Canary Cert – Produces 100% RSG NatGas). And in March of this year, Olympus announced that its pipeline operations, called Hyperion Midstream, are also Project Canary certified (see Olympus Energy Adds Midstream Division to Project Canary Certification). All of that effort is paying off by attracting a new marketing partner.
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Big Green Wins – Nopetro Cancels Fla. Panhandle LNG Export Plant
In April 2022, MDN told you about Nopetro LNG’s plans to construct and operate as many as three liquefaction trains in Port St. Joe, Florida, that will liquefy up to 3.86 billion cubic feet (Bcf) per year of natural gas for export and delivery to markets in the Caribbean, Central America, and South America (see Small Florida LNG Export Facility NOT Subject to FERC Regulation). That’s 3.86 Bcf for an entire year, not per day. This is a TINY facility. Yet the radical left launched an all-out legal and PR assault to oppose it. Yesterday Nopetro announced it is giving up on the Port St. Joe plan. Big Green (the bad guys) won.
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Energy Services | Equitrans/EQT Midstream | Industrywide Issues | Litigation | Pipelines | Statewide WV | West Virginia
WV Sen. Joe Manchin Files Friend of Court Brief to Support MVP
Yesterday, U.S. Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV), Chairman of the U.S. Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, filed an amicus curiae (friend of the court) brief with the U.S. Supreme Court in support of Mountain Valley Pipeline’s (MVP) emergency application to vacate the stays of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit (4th Circuit) that are blocking completion of MVP. The Fiscal Responsibility Act (FRA) of 2023, signed into law on June 3 by President Biden, specifically removes legal jurisdiction for MVP from all courts but the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia (D.C. Circuit). Yet the 4th Circuit recently blocked two key permits, by extension blocking all construction of MVP. Last Friday MVP filed an emergency appeal with the Supreme Court (see MVP Asks Supreme Court Chief Justice to Overturn 4th Circuit Stay). Joe Manchin is chiming in with his support for MVP’s appeal.
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Mitch McConnell Calls Out Joe Manchin for Flip-Flop on Gas Stoves
U.S. Senator Joe Manchin is a typical politician. That is, he lies. His latest whopper concerns a measure he advanced to “prohibit” the Biden administration from “banning gas stoves,” which he touted in a recent video. However, just two years ago, Manchin opposed an amendment from Wyoming Republican senator John Barrasso that prohibited federal funds from being used to ban natural gas in new construction, saying the measure wasn’t necessary and that such bans would never happen. Joe-then and Joe-now appear to be two different people. Funny how Joe gets more “conservative” the closer he gets to an election year.
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Gas-Fired Power 70% of PJM Electric Outage During Winter Storm
PJM is the largest electric grid operator in the U.S. It serves 65 million people in 13 states plus the District of Columbia (including PA, OH, and WV). PJM came under withering criticism for an almost blackout during the Christmas cold snap last Dec. 23-25. If not for certain gas-fired peaker plants, like that in the Little Town of Bethlehem, the lights would have gone out during a brutal cold snap (see Bethlehem Marcellus-Fired Power Plant Kept PA Lights on During Xmas). Some 24% of the electricity supplied to PJM was not available during the cold snap due to equipment failures and lack of supply, including natural gas frozen off at well pads. PJM issued a report on Monday analyzing what happened, with an eye on how to prevent it from happening again.
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House GOP Pushes Back on Radical ESG by BlackRock, Others
As we point out in another story today about Olympus Energy selling its “responsible gas” via a deal with Tenaska, what the left means by ESG (Environment, Social, Governance) and what the shale industry means by ESG, are two different things. When companies like BlackRock talk about forcing the companies they invest in to toe the line with respect to ESG, it means forcing those companies to divest from fossil energy. Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives are pushing back hard against investor ESG nonsense because it threatens the retirement funds of this country’s massive middle class.
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Europe, Japan Peeping Tom Plan to Watch LNG Methane Emissions
Yesterday, Japan’s JERA Co. Inc. and Korea Gas Corp. (KOGAS) announced a new initiative called the Coalition for LNG Emission Abatement toward Net-zero (“CLEAN”). The private-public initiative has the support of the governments of Japan, South Korea, Australia, the U.S., and Europe, whose representatives signed a framework agreement for creating a mechanism to monitor methane emissions. “To support the Coalition, Japan and the European Commission expressed their vision to create a globally aligned methane emission assessment of LNG projects and to incentivize methane mitigation by LNG producers by facilitating the information collection process of methane leakage counter measures and methane reduction targets,” a joint statement by the allies said.
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Other Stories of Interest: Wed, Jul 19, 2023
MARCELLUS/UTICA REGION: An export terminal for natural gas is essential in southeast PA; OTHER U.S. REGIONS: Disney heiress arrested for chaining herself in front of Hamptons airport; NATIONAL: Natural gas post largest one-day gain in a month; It’s supply, stupid.
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EIA July DPR: Shale Gas Production Predicted to Drop in August
The latest monthly U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) Drilling Productivity Report (DPR) for July issued yesterday (below) shows the EIA believes shale gas production across the seven major plays tracked in the monthly DPR for August will *decrease* production from the prior month of July. This is the first month-over-month decrease prediction for the combined seven plays since December. EIA says combined natgas production will slide by 100 MMcf/d (million cubic feet per day). The Marcellus/Utica, called “Appalachia” in the report, is predicted to slump by 16 MMcf/d in August from July.
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Diversified Energy | Energy Companies | EQT Corp | Industrywide Issues | Litigation | Statewide WV | West Virginia
EQT, Diversified Ask WV Fed Court to Toss Abandoned Well Lawsuit
Last summer, MDN brought you the news about a lawsuit against Diversified Energy and EQT over the issue of old and “abandoned” wells in West Virginia (see Big Green Uses WV Landowners to Sue EQT, Diversified re Old Wells). In April, a West Virginia federal judge allowed that lawsuit to continue as a class action (see Fed Court Rules EQT, Diversified Must Face WV Class Action). However, it appears to us (untrained in the ways of the law) that perhaps the lawsuit is in trouble. The plaintiffs keep amending their complaint, dropping bits and pieces, hoping to keep it alive. The fourth complaint (the third time amending it) was filed in June. Diversified and EQT have just filed a strong motion to dismiss the latest complaint (i.e. dismiss the lawsuit).
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Chesapeake Gets Responsible Gas Recertification for All Marcellus
Two years ago, Chesapeake Energy announced that it would seek responsible gas certification from two organizations–Equitable Origin (EO) and MiQ–to certify the production of its natural gas produced in both its Marcellus and Haynesville operations (see Chesapeake Goes Whole Hog on ESG, Certifying Gas Across 2 Basins). Yesterday Chessy announced it had received recertification from both EO and MiQ for all of its Marcellus Shale operations (located in Pennsylvania), which currently produces a staggering 4.4 billion cubic feet per day (Bcf/d).
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NYMEX NatGas Price Slides 4th Day in a Row, Hits 4-Week Low
Even with much of the nation in an extreme heat event making record demands on gas-fired power plants, demand for natural gas appears to be nominal at best, and consequently, the price of natural gas, at least the Henry Hub NYMEX futures price, remains mired in the mid-$2 range. The NYMEX price was down again yesterday, closing at $2.51/MMBtu. That’s the fourth day in a row the price has decreased, hitting the lowest closing price in almost a month–since June 20th.
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Summer NatGas Storage Injections Exceed 5-Yr Avg by 66 Bcf
One of the factors in the price of natural gas is supply. Gas is about as pure a commodity market as you will find worldwide. Higher demand with the same or less supply will drive prices higher. And the reverse is true. Higher supplies with the same or less demand lead to lower prices. Last summer, the world was still coming to terms with the unprovoked invasion of Ukraine by Russia. Europe and many countries worldwide pledged to stop buying Russian natural gas, putting an extreme demand on other sources for gas, including here in the U.S. The situation led to a deficit in available natgas and lower storage. This summer the situation is far different.
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Anti-Drilling/Fossil Fuel | Electrical Generation | Industrywide Issues | New York | New York County | Regulation | Research | Statewide NY
NYC to Experience Blackouts in 2025 Due to Democrat Climate Law
The New York Independent System Operator (NYISO) is warning of a shortfall in electric generating capacity for New York City in 2025 when peaker plants–on-demand electric-generating plants that use fossil energy–are due to retire. Each quarter NYISO issues a short-term assessment of reliability. In April, the NYISO quarterly report warned about coming blackouts in 2025 (see NY Grid Operator Warns NYC Heading for Blackouts in 2025). Last Friday, NYISO issued its latest quarterly report and reiterated there WILL be a shortfall in electricity on the hottest days in 2025.
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Other Stories of Interest: Tue, Jul 18, 2023
MARCELLUS/UTICA REGION: Local students get inside look into careers in O&G; NATIONAL: U.S. LNG boosts energy security; So you want to stop oil and gas production?; House OKs defense bill blocking Biden climate action; INTERNATIONAL: IEA looks to extend purview to natural gas; With no replacement for oil, countries are ramping up alternatives to renewables.
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