Crestwood 3Q20 Update: Marcellus Stagecoach Sees Record Volumes
In 2016 Crestwood Equity Partners formed a joint venture with New York City’s largest utility company, Consolidated Edison Inc., to operate a critical link of pipelines and storage facilities in the heart of the Utica/Marcellus, called Stagecoach Gas Services (see Con Ed & Crestwood Seal the Deal on Marcellus Pipeline/Storage JV). Crestwood, which owns and operates midstream businesses in multiple shale plays across the United States, released its third-quarter 2020 update yesterday. Guess which region generated the most revenue for the company last quarter?
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Eagle Manufacturing, located in Wellsburg, WV, was struggling in the early 2000s. The company makes plastic safety products. Foreign competition was hammering the company (tough to compete with children in China who work in factories for a dollar an hour). The company almost offshored production to China, but decided to stick it out a few more years here at home. And then the Marcellus/Utica Shale miracle happened.
Anti-fossil fuel nutters believe they have an opening to try and bully the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) into de-certifying a fully permitted and ready-to-start compressor station in Weymouth, Massachusetts because of an “emergency” release of a few puffs of natural gas during final testing of the facility.
For a second week in a row, all three M-U states issued new shale drilling permits last week. Pennsylvania issued 6 new permits, Ohio issued 5 new permits, and West Virginia issued 3 new permits.
MARCELLUS/UTICA REGION: US secretary of energy tours a Marcellus Shale natural gas well in Washington County; Former Rice Energy CEO files for IPO for new sustainable fuels company; The big Trump rallies you don’t see; OTHER U.S. REGIONS: BP looks to Haynesville on rising Henry Hub natural gas prices, LNG export outlook; Texas study links more than 238,000 jobs to pipelines; NATIONAL: Trump weighs executive order to show support for fracking; Despite fewer regulations, emissions are declining, oil industry says; Chevron to lay off about 25% of Noble Energy employees after merger; Fracking finally gets the attention it deserves; Brouillette: ‘When they say they will kill oil … they mean it’; INTERNATIONAL: Lower-for-longer LNG prices to put buyers in the sweet spot for years; India LNG demand growth presents opportunities, challenges for US developers; LNG-as-bunker-fuel winning converts as shipping industry eyes future CO2 rules.
We don’t know how Pittsburgh Business Times ace reporter Paul Gough does it. Yesterday we told you Gough had gotten CNX CEO Nick DeIuliis to, in a roundabout way, discuss the rumor that EQT has floated a takeover offer to his company (see 
Two shale wastewater injection well companies, DeepRock Disposal and Fountain Quail Energy Services, have merged. The combined company is keeping the DeepRock Disposal name. The new entity is one of the largest SWD (saltwater disposal well) operators in the Appalachian Basin with 12 wells located in Ohio and West Virginia (with permits for several more). However, the bigger news (for us) is that DeepRock plans to offload barged frack wastewater–very soon.
Energy Transfer (Sunoco Pipeline) is pushing back against a demand by the Pennsylvania Dept. of Environmental Protection (DEP) that the company’s Mariner East 2X pipeline project be rerouted around Marsh Creek State Park (in Chester County, PA) following a drilling mud spill in August. Sunoco has asked the PA Environmental Hearing Board, a special court created to hear appeals of DEP decisions, to override the DEP’s demand to reroute ME2X.
This would be funny if it weren’t so darned sad. In Lansing, NY, just outside of Planet Ithaca in Tompkins County, the local utility (NYSEG) wanted to build a short pipeline in 2017 to supply new customers with natural gas, but was blocked by crazies who irrationally hate fossil fuels (see 
A lawsuit against Pennsylvania driller EdgeMarc Energy that began in 2018 is finally settled. In Sept. 2018 MDN told you about a single former employee of EdgeMarc launching what turned into a class action lawsuit against the company alleging some employees were misclassified as independent contractors and denied overtime pay (see 
There is a reason why President Trump and sleepy/creepy Uncle Joe Biden are visiting Pennsylvania so much. It is one of the “battleground” states, likely THE state, that will determine who wins the presidential race next week. The key issue both candidates talk about is fracking. Joe Biden (says Donald Trump) will take away the right to frack in PA, and along with it thousands of jobs. Biden insists he won’t ban fracking, but in the next breath says he will “transition” the country away from using oil (and gas, all fossil fuels) over the next 15 years. Which is, in essence, a ban on fracking.