MARCELLUS/UTICA REGION: BKV announces path to net-zero emissions across Scope 1 and 2 by 2025; NATIONAL: EPA’s latest emissions data show U.S. continues to decrease methane emissions; US weekly LNG exports up by six vessels; Can high natural gas prices continue to defy the experts?; INTERNATIONAL: Long-term gas deals become pricey; China energy giants in talks for Shell’s Russian gas stake.
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New Jersey Resources’ Adelphia Gateway project converts an old oil pipeline stretching from Northampton County, PA through Bucks, Montgomery, and Chester counties, terminating in Delaware County at Marcus Hook, into a natural gas pipeline. The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) issued final approval for the project in December 2019 (see FERC Issues Final OK for Southeast PA Adelphia Gateway Pipeline). The project converts 50 miles of an existing 84-mile pipeline from oil to natural gas. The northern 34 miles of the pipeline were previously converted to deliver natural gas in 1996. Portions of the final section began to flow Marcellus gas on Monday.
Read More “Partial Marcellus Flows Begin on Adelphia Gateway Pipe Near Philly”
KeyState LLC is developing 7,000 acres of natural gas fields and geological storage in West Keating Township, Clinton County in the middle of coal and iron country in central Pennsylvania (see Innovative Clinton County, PA Petchem Plant Gets More Investors). KeyState to Zero, as it’s called, is a $400 million petrochemical project that will use carbon capture and storage to produce blue hydrogen, blue ammonia, nitrogen fertilizer, and exhaust treatment for power plants and diesel engines. Yesterday at a conference in Washington, PA, Perry Babb, CEO of KeyState LLC, told the attendees that he is working on a plan to build a second, similar facility–but this time not in Pennsylvania.
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Getting hydrogen from point A to point B by mixing it with and flowing it through existing interstate natural gas pipelines sounds easy. Just hook up to a handy source of hydrogen and let the molecules flow and mingle with methane molecules, right? However, adding hydrogen (H2) to existing methane (CH4) pipelines is NOT a simple thing. There are major roadblocks to flowing H2 through CH4 pipes.
Read More “Adding Hydrogen to Interstate NatGas Pipelines Opens a Can of Worms”
Formed by a merging of the Petroleum Equipment & Services Association and the Association of Energy Service Companies, the Energy Workforce & Technology Council (EWTC) has a legacy of leadership and advocacy on behalf of energy technology and services companies in the energy supply chain. EWTC held its annual meeting two weeks ago in Alabama. Among those attending was EQT Corporation CEO Toby Rice, who received the Industry Influencer Award for his outstanding and personal dedication to advocating on behalf of the energy technology and services sector.
Read More “EQT CEO Rice Gets Award from Energy Workforce & Technology Council”
When we say “natural gas exports,” what do you think about? Likely big LNG cargo ships and big LNG liquefaction plants that sit along our coastlines, right? Did you know that until roughly 2020, more natural gas was exported from the United States via pipelines than by LNG cargo ships? LNG exports are a relatively new phenomenon for the U.S. Yet in a short span of time LNG exports have eclipsed pipeline exports and will continue to do so, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA), for the foreseeable future.
Read More “U.S. on Track to Become World’s Largest LNG Exporter in 2022”
In January 2020, President Trump announced a list of proposed changes to the 50-year-old National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) in an effort to strip away some of the governmental red tape that has built up over the years like plaque in an artery, preventing important infrastructure projects like pipelines, dams, bridges, and roads from getting built (see Trump Seeks to Speed Up Pipeline Projects by Tweaking NEPA Law). Over the past 20 years or so the left has become expert in their use of NEPA to block new projects, claiming environmental harms. Trump reversed that trend when his tweaks to NEPA went into effect in 2020 (see Trump Admin Releases Updates to National Environmental Policy Act). Joe Biden has just reversed it all and has, once again, proven he is an enemy of oil and gas development.
Read More “Contrary to Words of Support, Biden Uses NEPA to Block New O&G”
In early March MDN brought you information from the Toronto Financial Post that said the Ukrainian crisis has put East Coast Canada LNG export facilities “back on the map” (see Ukraine Crisis Injects New Life into East Coast Canada LNG Exports). That post talked about two potential LNG export facilities–Pieridae Energy’s Goldboro LNG project, located in Nova Scotia, and Repsol’s St. John LNG project in St. John, New Brunswick. However, there are actually five proposed LNG export facilities announced for the Canadian East Coast. Which one(s), if any, stand a chance of getting a final investment decision (FID) and getting built?
Read More “Of Canada’s 5 East Coast LNG Export Projects, Will Any Get Built?”
OTHER U.S. REGIONS: Atlanta Gas Light to expand liquified natural gas facility; NATIONAL: Energy transition still means billions in fossil fuel investment; Shale inflation grows as Halliburton flags drilling-budget jumps; INTERNATIONAL: As Germany joins LNG import race, a long and crowded track awaits; Hydrogen is not the new LNG.
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It’s not often a new product announcement catches our attention. Enverus, previously known as Drillinginfo, sent MDN a product announcement for the company’s first consumer-facing product. It’s called MineraliQ and if you are an individual landowner or mineral rights owner, you are going to love this. MineraliQ is an online service that provides everything you need to know about your minerals in one place, including payments, well locations, and important activity near your minerals that you should know about. The new service will even help you estimate how much your mineral rights are worth now and in the future. This is seriously cool stuff. And it’s free!
Read More “Enverus Launches Free Online Tool to Track Mineral Rights, Royalties”
If you still live in New York or Massachusetts and National Grid is your utility company, now is the time to move. Preferably to another state. National Grid has finally waved the white flag of surrender to the leftist mob that demands the elimination of all fossil energy. National Grid will force its customers to quit using fuel oil and “non-renewable” natural gas by 2050 at the latest–forcing its customers to use electric heat pumps instead. By our estimates, National Grid customers can expect to pay 4-5X more than anyone else for their energy. Escape while you can!
Read More “National Grid Surrenders, Dumping Fossil Energy in NY-MA by 2050”
Pipeline giant Williams announced yesterday that it will collaborate with Cheniere Energy, the largest LNG exporter in the U.S., as well as other natural gas midstream companies, methane detection technology providers, and several academic institutions to implement measuring and tracking of so-called greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions at natural gas gathering, processing, transmission, and storage systems. Williams will include the mighty Transco pipeline system in this project, a 10,000-mile pipeline system that flows Marcellus/Utica gas to the Gulf Coast (to Cheniere’s LNG export facilities).
Read More “Williams Joins Cheniere, Others to Monitor & Report GHG Emissions”
Two years ago this month MDN told you about “frac spreads”–what they are and why counting frac spreads is a more reliable measure of future production than just counting rigs (see Frac Spreads – What They Are and What They Portend for 2020). A frac spread is a combination of fracturing pumps (also referred to as frac pumpers and/or pumping units), data trucks, storage tanks, chemical additive and hydration units, blenders, and other equipment needed to perform a frac stimulation of a well. What do the latest frac spread numbers tell us?
Read More “Counting Frac Spreads Shows Drilling has Reached a Fevered Pace”
Last Wednesday four federal government agencies, including the Department of Energy (DOE), the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the National Security Agency (NSA), and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), issued a joint Cybersecurity Advisory (CSA) bulletin to warn about the discovery of a highly sophisticated and effective system to attack industrial facilities. The computer malware, called Pipedream, includes the ability to cause explosions at plants, specifically including (targeted at) LNG facilities. While the four agencies don’t finger a likely suspect for creating and propagating the malware, private security experts say it likely came from Russia.
Read More “Russia Targets U.S. & Western LNG Plants with Computer Malware”
The leftists who have taken over the International Energy Agency (IEA) told the world last year that new oil and gas exploration should immediately stop worldwide in order to save Planet Earth from Global Warming monsters (see Intl Energy Agency Says World Should Stop All New O&G Development). In March of this year, the IEA issued a 10-point plan world governments can use to force their citizens to drive cars less, fly less, and work from home in order to fix the current oil shortage being caused by Vlad Putin’s holocaust in Ukraine (see IEA Solution to Putin Oil Shortage – Force People to Drive/Fly Less). They’re baaaaack! In a quarterly report, the IEA says the world will use slightly less natgas this year, and oh, by the way, all countries should be kicking the fossil energy habit anyway, including natgas.
Read More “IEA Anti-Fossil Fuelers Renew Call to Dump Natural Gas”
Last week Pennsylvania issued 12 new shale well permits, down three from the prior week. Coterra Energy (formerly Cabot Oil & Gas) had the most permits with four, all on the same pad in Susquehanna County. Southwestern had three permits all on the same pad in Susquehanna County. Chesapeake Energy also had a permit in Susquehanna County, making that county the top spot for new permits with eight last week. Ohio had no new shale permits issued last week. Bummer. West Virginia had just two permits, one for Southwestern Energy in Ohio County, and one for Antero Resources in Tyler County.
Read More “14 New Shale Well Permits Issued for PA-OH-WV Apr 11-17”