New Way to Store and Use Methane at Moderate Temps & Pressures
Methane (CH4) is one of the most abundant, naturally-occurring organic compounds on Planet Earth. And yet loony leftists claim it’s a pollutant and killing the planet. Go figure. We’ve always been fans of using methane as a fuel substitute for gasoline. But let’s face it, storing it in high-pressure tanks (CNG) or liquefying it and storing it at minus 260 degrees (LNG), is not an ideal way to use it in moving vehicles. It’s not handy or easy and takes special tanks. Researchers may just have found a solution for that problem.
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New polls arrive each day now to proclaim that Donald Trump is toast and sleepy/creepy Uncle Joe Biden is going to win big. New polls arrive just about every week to announce that Americans are suspicious of shale fracking and would, in a heartbeat, dump fossil fuels. Don’t believe either the political or fracking polls so-called mainstream media releases. Why? Because the polls themselves are constructed not to determine public opinion, but to shape it. Almost all polls today are push-polls.
OTHER U.S. REGIONS: The Permian gas glut is over at Waha; Natural gas saved Virginia families, manufacturers and businesses more than $14B over decade; NATIONAL: Study: renewable energy does nothing to reduce CO2 emissions; Oil industry turns to mergers and acquisitions to survive; INTERNATIONAL: Natural gas viewed more positively than other fossil fuels across 20 global publics; PetroChina predicts massive Chinese gas demand growth; US steps up sanctions pressure on Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline contractors.
There is a battle underway by Big Green groups in Pennsylvania to unduly influence, pressure, and bully a quasi-governmental agency, the Delaware River Basin Commission (DRBC), into overturning a legally permitted LNG export facility planned for the New Jersey shore of the Delaware River by New Fortress Energy (NFE).
Range Resources is the company that started it all in the Marcellus by drilling the very first Marcellus Shale gas well back in 2004. Range also was the first to drill in the Upper Devonian and Utica layers. Over the years Range, like many other M-U drillers, has invited folks to go on tours of their drilling sites. If you’ve never been on a rig tour, take one! At least, when they begin again. Due to the coronavirus, Range, like other drillers, stopped in-person rig tours. However, Range now conducts virtual (live) rig tours instead.
The transition from energy freedom to energy Fascism (the forced abandonment of fossil fuels) is happening far faster than anyone thought possible. Never in our lifetime did we believe Americans would willingly choose Communism and Fascism over American freedom, yet that’s what is happening and will be accelerated under a Joe Biden administration (perish the thought).
MDN is updating our Calendar page more frequently to bring you the latest news on events of interest that have either been canceled, postponed, or in some cases, have gone virtual. We encourage you to review the list. A number of free and low-cost webinars and online events have popped up as an alternative to in-person meetings.
Enough! How many times do we have to put up with Obama/Clinton liberal Democrat judges from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit blocking the legal and legitimate construction of Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP)–a project which is 92% in the ground and done! Last Friday the clowns did it again for the umpteenth time–slapping a “temporary” order blocking construction because the anti-America, Russia-backed Sierra Club filed yet another frivolous lawsuit against the project.
Even if and when Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP) gets completed and goes online, flowing Marcellus/Utica gas to the southern U.S., it still will not be enough to significantly lift the price of natgas for M-U drillers. That’s according to an analysis by the experts at S&P Global Platts.
Sometimes plans change, for the better! That’s what has happened with a Marcellus-fired power plant planned for Clinton County, PA called the Renovo Energy Center. The last time we wrote about Renovo was in February 2018 (see 
A month ago the analysts at S&P Global Market Intelligence reviewed permits issued for shale drilling in Pennsylvania and found there were 24% fewer permits issued in August 2020 than in August 2019 (see 
A newly published paper by researchers with Harvard University tried its best to make a connection between fracking and high levels of radiation–and failed. You won’t know that by reading biased media accounts of the study nor by reading comments from so-called experts reporting on the findings. But when you read the study itself (below), the inescapable conclusion is that Harvard researchers didn’t prove a darned thing, other than there’s no real threat to human (or animal) health from air emissions coming from fracked oil and gas wells.