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  • Energy Services | Equitrans/EQT Midstream | Industrywide Issues | Litigation | Pipelines | Statewide WV | West Virginia

    WV Sen. Capito Says MVP-Blocking 4th Circuit “Must be Stopped”

    July 14, 2023July 14, 2023
    Cage fight

    U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito, from West Virginia, spoke with reporters yesterday. She spared no words in describing her disgust with the three-judge panel from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit and their latest illegal maneuver to block the Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP) project. She said she is “seriously, totally astounded” by “this politicized court” and its decision to block MVP construction after Congress “spoke loud and clear” in its support to finish MVP asap. She also said, “This activist court has got to be stopped.” We agree.
    Read More “WV Sen. Capito Says MVP-Blocking 4th Circuit “Must be Stopped””

  • Electrical Generation | Industrywide Issues | Regulation | Statewide VA | Taxation | Virginia

    Virginia on Track to Leave RGGI Carbon Tax Scheme by Dec. 31

    July 14, 2023July 14, 2023

    In 2021 as he was running for the office of Governor in Virginia, Glenn Youngkin pledged if he won, he would remove the state from the onerous carbon tax on coal- and gas-fired power plants called the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI). Following his recent review of a new regulation to remove the state from RGGI, Youngkin is on the cusp of keeping his promise.
    Read More “Virginia on Track to Leave RGGI Carbon Tax Scheme by Dec. 31”

  • Energy Companies | EQT Corp | Industrywide Issues | LDCs | Statewide WV | West Virginia

    NatGas-Powered WATT Fuel Cells Provided to 500 West Virginia Homes

    July 14, 2023July 14, 2023
    WATT fuel cell

    A fuel cell manufacturer located in Westmoreland County, PA–WATT Fuel Cell–disclosed in 2022 that its biggest investor is EQT Corporation (see EQT Invests in Fuel Cell Co. – Foresees Future Market for NatGas). WATT Fuel Cell manufactures Solid Oxide Fuel Cell (“SOFC”) stacks and systems that operate on common, readily available fuels such as natural gas and propane. Instead of burning and combusting natural gas (or propane), those fuel sources are subjected to an electrochemical process that produces electricity (see this post for a description of the process: SWPA NatGas Fuel Cell Backed by EQT Wins Product Certification). WATT is ready to go mainstream. The company is distributing 500 of its units to customers of Hope Gas, a West Virginia-based natural gas utility.
    Read More “NatGas-Powered WATT Fuel Cells Provided to 500 West Virginia Homes”

  • Carbon Capture | Energy Companies | Exxon Mobil | Industrywide Issues | M&A

    Exxon Buys Carbon Capture Business Denbury for $4.9 Billion

    July 14, 2023July 14, 2023

    Exxon Mobil Corporation announced it is buying Denbury Inc., a developer of carbon capture, utilization, and storage solutions and enhanced oil recovery, for $4.9 billion in an all-stock transaction. Denbury currently focuses on the Gulf Coast and Rocky Mountain region. Presumably, Exxon plans to expand Denbury’s technology to other regions, including the Marcellus/Utica.
    Read More “Exxon Buys Carbon Capture Business Denbury for $4.9 Billion”

  • Hydrogen | Industrywide Issues

    White is the Newest Color to Join the Rainbow of Hydrogen Colors

    July 14, 2023July 14, 2023

    Hydrogen energy is closely tied to natural gas. Currently, 95% of all hydrogen produced in the world is produced by cracking methane (natural gas). The so-called regional hydrogen hubs being dangled by the Bidenistas (up to $1 billion of government financing for 6-10 projects) can potentially launch expanded demand for natural gas in the Marcellus/Utica (see 33 of 79 Hydrogen Hub Teams Encouraged to Submit Full Applications). But not all hydrogen is produced from natural gas, and the left is pushing hard to force production from sources other than natural gas. A rainbow of colors is used to denote the source of how hydrogen is produced. We have a new color to add to the rainbow: white.
    Read More “White is the Newest Color to Join the Rainbow of Hydrogen Colors”

  • Anti-Drilling/Fossil Fuel | Industrywide Issues | Pennsylvania | Philadephia | Research

    Global Warming Fanaticism Now Infecting the Fine Art World

    July 14, 2023July 14, 2023

    This one has us laughing our considerably fat rear-ends off. The left long ago corrupted science, turning it from the pursuit of objective facts into forced obedience to political opinions (i.e., global warming is caused by fossil fuels). The left issues mountains of data–graphs, tables, pictures–that supposedly prove they are correct with their opinions and theories about global warming (which they renamed “climate change”). But what’s this? Many people don’t believe all of those graphs and tables and data being pushed–they’re just too dumb to understand it. What’s the solution? Instead of using charts and graphs generated by Microsoft Excel that are so literal, have artists redraw them as “fine art” to make them look prettier. The left says, in a new study, dumb folks will fall for the pretty pictures every time.
    Read More “Global Warming Fanaticism Now Infecting the Fine Art World”

  • Ascent Resources | Butler County | CNX Resources | Energy Companies | Guernsey County | Jefferson County (OH) | LOLA Energy | Monongalia County | Northeast Natural Energy | Ohio | Pennsylvania | Southwestern Energy | Weekly Permits | West Virginia | Westmoreland County

    11 New Shale Well Permits Issued for PA-OH-WV Jul 3-9

    July 14, 2023July 14, 2023

    New shale permits issued for Jul 3-9 in the Marcellus/Utica saw a dramatic decrease after posting a dramatic increase the week before. There were 11 new permits issued last week, way down from the 39 issued the previous week. Last week’s permit tally included a scant 3 new permits in Pennsylvania, 3 new permits in Ohio, and 5 new permits in West Virginia. The top permittee for the week was Northeast Natural Energy, receiving 5 permits in Monongalia County, WV.
    Read More “11 New Shale Well Permits Issued for PA-OH-WV Jul 3-9”

  • Best of the Rest

    Other Stories of Interest: Fri, Jul 14, 2023

    July 14, 2023July 14, 2023

    MARCELLUS/UTICA REGION: Coterra builds on partnership with Dennis Farm; NATIONAL: D.C. Circuit court rejects DOE’s de facto ban on natural gas boilers; USA LNG cargoes poised to shift to Asian ports; US Henry Hub, international natgas prices slump week over week; American energy independence is a national security priority; INTERNATIONAL: This is the goldilocks price for oil.
    Read More “Other Stories of Interest: Fri, Jul 14, 2023”

  • Accidents | Columbiana County | Energy Companies | Hilcorp Energy | Industrywide Issues | Ohio

    Hilcorp Well Leak in Columbiana OH Fixed, Evacuees Return Home

    July 13, 2023July 13, 2023

    Yesterday MDN brought you the news that a third-party contractor “struck a well head” on a Hilcorp shale well pad in Columbiana County, Ohio, resulting in a leak that forced the evacuation of 450 people within a mile of the well site (see Columbiana County, OH Evacuates 450 After Hilcorp Gas Well Accident). Good news. The leak has been fixed, the well head replaced, and the evacuees have returned home.
    Read More “Hilcorp Well Leak in Columbiana OH Fixed, Evacuees Return Home”

  • Industrywide Issues | Pennsylvania | Research | Statewide PA

    EIA Observes M-U Gas Production Flat, Key PA Counties in Decline

    July 13, 2023July 13, 2023

    The analysts at the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) have been looking at natural gas production in the Marcellus/Utica (i.e., Appalachia) for 2022. The M-U is the largest-producing natural gas shale play in the world. Pennsylvania is the second-largest producer of natural gas in the U.S. after Texas. The EIA looked at PA’s production, specifically production from the four largest-producing counties, for 2022. They found what we told you about back in March: Production in PA has fallen (see PA Shale Production & Drilling Tumble in Latest IFO Qtly Report).
    Read More “EIA Observes M-U Gas Production Flat, Key PA Counties in Decline”

  • Industrywide Issues | Lease & Royalty Payments | Litigation | Pennsylvania | Statewide PA

    Thorny Issue of Who Owns O&G Rights Under PA Roads – Strip & Gore

    July 13, 2023July 13, 2023

    For years we’ve railed against what we consider the theft of royalties and bonus payments by the state of Pennsylvania from landowners with creeks and rivers running through their leased (for shale drilling) property. The Pennsylvania Dept. of Conservation and Natural Resources (DCNR) claims that under a centuries-old law, the state of PA “owns” the property under “navigable” waterways–including rivers and streams (see PA DCNR Seizes $45M in Streambed Royalties & Bonuses Since 2015). Now comes another similar issue–the ownership of mineral rights under PA roadways.
    Read More “Thorny Issue of Who Owns O&G Rights Under PA Roads – Strip & Gore”

  • Chester County | Energy Services | Energy Transfer Partners | Industrywide Issues | Pennsylvania | Pipelines | Regulation

    PBS Hypes New Mariner East Pipe “Sinkhole” in Chester County, PA

    July 13, 2023July 13, 2023
    click for larger version

    One of the challenges faced by Energy Transfer in building its Mariner East 2 (ME2) pipeline (two pipelines) to transport NGLs from southwestern PA and eastern OH to the Marcus Hook refinery near Philadelphia was the terrain in Chester County, near Philly. The area has a karst topography–think of it as Swiss cheese underground, where there are a lot of holes carved out of the sandstone deposits over the years. ME2 didn’t create the karst topography but suffers from its presence because of frequent sinkholes that form when drilling through it. Although the drilling is long done and over, another very small sinkhole recently appeared in Chester near the ME2 pipeline.
    Read More “PBS Hypes New Mariner East Pipe “Sinkhole” in Chester County, PA”

  • Anti-Drilling/Fossil Fuel | CNG/LNG | Exporting | Industrywide Issues | Litigation

    Radical Sierra Club Tries to Block Driftwood LNG in 5th Circuit

    July 13, 2023July 13, 2023

    Driftwood LNG, a 27.6 million tonnes of LNG per year facility that will cost on the order of $16.8 billion to build, has not made an official final investment decision (FID) to proceed with building the FERC-approved project. However, construction began on the project in March 2022 (see Tellurian Begins Construction of Driftwood LNG with No FID). The EPC for the project is Bechtel Energy. Bechtel’s initial activities include demolition, civil site preparation, and construction of critical foundations. The Sierra Club, a radicalized organization rumored to be funded in part by Russian money, is trying to stop construction by claiming in a lawsuit filed with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit that a permit issued by the Army Corps of Engineers is unlawful.
    Read More “Radical Sierra Club Tries to Block Driftwood LNG in 5th Circuit”

  • CNG/LNG | Exporting | Industrywide Issues | Research

    IGU World LNG Report: 2022 Most Turbulent Year in NatGas History

    July 13, 2023July 13, 2023

    Yesterday the International Gas Union (IGU) released its 14th annual 2023 World LNG Report–the world’s most comprehensive public source of information on key developments and trends in the LNG sector (full copy below). With the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the gas markets went wild last year. The IGU report calls 2022 the “most turbulent year of gas markets” in history and says, “LNG demonstrated essential value as a flexible, reliable, available energy resource for a secure energy transition.” Forget about the energy transition nonsense in that statement. The fact is, LNG saved the day over the past year plus. LNG, particularly U.S. LNG, pulled Europe’s bacon out of the fire.
    Read More “IGU World LNG Report: 2022 Most Turbulent Year in NatGas History”

  • Best of the Rest

    Other Stories of Interest: Thu, Jul 13, 2023

    July 13, 2023July 13, 2023

    OTHER U.S. REGIONS: NextDecade announces FID on Rio Grande LNG Phase 1; NATIONAL: Maximum extraction – shale development enters a new era; ExxonMobil sees LNG as a growth business into the future; INTERNATIONAL: Oil breaks out of trading range closing above $80; Shell says cutting oil and gas production “dangerous and irresponsible.”
    Read More “Other Stories of Interest: Thu, Jul 13, 2023”

  • Accidents | Columbiana County | Energy Companies | Hilcorp Energy | Industrywide Issues | Ohio

    Columbiana County, OH Evacuates 450 After Hilcorp Gas Well Accident

    July 12, 2023July 12, 2023
    Natural gas well head (sometimes called a Christmas tree)

    Roughly 450 people within a one-mile radius of a Hilcorp Energy well pad in Fairfield Township (Columbiana County, OH) were evacuated following a mishap at the pad. Hilcorp says a third-party contractor “struck a well head” on the pad around 9:00 a.m. Tuesday, causing natural gas to leak into the air. What does that mean, that someone struck a well head?
    Read More “Columbiana County, OH Evacuates 450 After Hilcorp Gas Well Accident”

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