EQT 1Q22: Explores Investing in LNG Export Terminals
Yesterday EQT Corporation released its first quarter 2022 update and held a conference call with analysts. The big news came from CEO Toby Rice, who said in his opening remarks, “We are currently in discussions with LNG end-users across various geographies and are contemplating equity investment opportunities in LNG export facilities.” Later in the call, in response to a question, Rice added, “Our ultimate prize that we’re looking for here at EQT is to get exposure to international markets…One of the ways that we get more flexibility towards accessing those contracts is to take an investment in the LNG facility itself.”
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Antero Resources, one of the largest drillers in the Marcellus/Utica (with major assets in West Virginia) issued its first quarter 2022 update yesterday. We’ve often marveled at Antero’s ability to make money on its natural gas and NGLs with hedging–preselling gas and NGLs at prices that beat whatever the current market price is at the time (see 
CNX Resources issued its first quarter 2022 update yesterday, and boy what an update! CEO Nick DeIuliis took direct aim at leftist anti-fossil fuel policies that are harming the human race. He spared no words! Policies including PA Gov. Tom Wolf’s RGGI carbon tax and the so-called Paris Climate Accord came in for a round of attacks by Nick. Love it! But what about the company’s performance in 1Q22? How did CNX fare financially and operationally?
NATIONAL: US weekly LNG exports down by three LNGCs; Drilling rig prices are spiking in the U.S. shale patch; US natural gas storage climbs 40 Bcf to 1.49 Tcf as NYMEX future rally stalls; Golden LNG export opportunity comes with potential risks for shale; INTERNATIONAL: The oil and gas industry is booming despite net-zero ambitions.
Three cheers for Big Coal! We’re not all that thrilled with using coal in power plants given there is a much more environmentally-friendly option–natural gas. But we’re certainly not against coal energy and we’re all for free enterprise and competition among fuel sources. The coal industry in Pennsylvania has our respect and admiration for standing up for itself and suing the state to block the insane Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) carbon tax. PA Gov. Tom Wolf is forcing his state to join RGGI, which will assess huge new taxes on both coal and gas-fired power plants, threatening to drive both out of business.
Pennsylvania, Ohio, and West Virginia are all scrambling to form intrastate working groups and alliances in an attempt to be THE state chosen for one of four regional hydrogen hubs funded by the recently passed so-called Biden infrastructure bill (see 
Because of constant court challenges against pipelines, the Trump administration completed a redo of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nationwide Permit 12 (NWP12), a general permit used in constructing pipelines, just prior to leaving office. From the beginning of the Biden administration, anti-fossil fuel fanatics have attacked NWP12, hoping they can cancel it or otherwise make it so onerous nobody will use it. In March the Army Corps caved to the pressure and announced it will review (i.e. change) NWP12 (see 
In an act of intentional suicide, a misguided anti-fossil fueler from Colorado sat down in front of the U.S. Supreme Court at 6:30 pm on so-called Earth Day (Apr 22) and set himself on fire, killing himself. Mainstream media like the (Dis)Associated Press are attempting to pass it off as some sort of Buddhist ritual of “self-immolation”–something noble, even laudable, instead of what it was–the act of a disturbed mind, someone driven crazy by brainwashing from the radical environmental movement.
Nicor Gas, a local distribution company (LDC), otherwise known as a natural gas utility company, is headquartered in Naperville, Illinois–a suburb of Chicago. Nicor Gas is the largest natural gas distribution company in Illinois, serving more than two million customers in a service territory that encompasses most of the northern third of Illinois, excluding the city of Chicago. Two days ago Nicor announced it had signed a deal with ENGIE Energy Marketing NA to buy “responsibly sourced” natural gas for its customers.
In 2018, CNX Resources announced it had signed a long-term contract with Evolution Well Services to use Evolution’s 100% natural gas-fueled electric pressure pumping equipment (see 
Yesterday MDN highlighted a newly published Cleveland State University study commissioned (and paid for) by the nonprofit JobsOhio (see 
At the end of the day, Joe Manchin, U.S. Senator from West Virginia, is still a Democrat and beholden to his party’s radical leftwing. We had hoped he was a different kind of Democrat, but alas, perhaps not. Bloomberg (often a fake news source) is reporting that Manchin is reaching out to Republicans in the Senate to gauge interest in spending a half-trillion dollars ($550 billion to be exact) on “climate and energy spending”–resurrected pieces of what had been Biden’s failed Build Back Better Act. The aim is to salvage something of Joe Biden’s tattered reputation ahead of the 2022 elections in November, so Dems are not completely obliterated (as we hope they are and deserve to be) this fall. No thanks, Sen. Manchin. We’re not interested in tacking on another 4-5% to the inflation numbers that are already at historic highs, which is exactly what such a bill would do.