Weatherford Emerges from Bankruptcy “Stronger” and “More Focused”
In May, Weatherford International, the world’s fourth largest oilfield services (OFS) company, finally succumbed and announced it was filing for a “prepackaged” bankruptcy (see Weatherford Finally Files for “Prepackaged” Bankruptcy). Last week the company emerged from bankruptcy having wiped out $6.2 billion of debt by giving new stock to debtholders and making existing stock worthless.
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The Heinz Endowments, a grantmaking organization in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania that sits under the thumb of Mamma Teresa Heinz Kerry (wacko lefty Democrat), has long been viewed as a community pillar in western Pennsylvania. What you may not know is that Heinz Endowments has spent over $120 million in “environmental grants” between 2008 and 2016, much of that money funding anti-shale and anti-fossil fuel campaigns. The Heinz Endowments is no friend to the working class in western PA.
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Last month MDN warned readers that we were likely at a peak, the point when the Marcellus/Utica would, after many years, begin to produce less natural gas each month than it had the month before (see 
West Virginia’s co-tenancy law was signed into law by Gov. Jim Justice in March 2018 (see 
Last week Chesapeake Energy received a notification from the New York Stock Exchange that its shares of stock have fallen below the $1/share threshold for more than 30 consecutive trading days and because of it, Chessy’s stock will be delisted from the exchange. Unless. Unless they can get the per share price over the $1/share average in a certain period of time. Chesapeake has responded they are taking several actions, the most relevant/likely being a reverse stock split.
In August the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) ruled that the New York Dept. of Environmental Conservation (DEC) took too long to deny a federal Clean Water Act “Section 401” water crossing permit for the Williams Constitution Pipeline project (see 
The Ohio Dept. of Natural Resources (ODNR) issued third quarter 2019 numbers for Utica shale oil and gas production last Friday. Drum roll please! The numbers show new state record highs for quarterly oil AND natural gas production, the most ever since quarterly reporting began in 2013. Through the roof! Utica oil production was up 29.8% over 3Q18, and Utica natural gas production was up 11.3% over 3Q18.
In Nov. 2017 the Ohio Attorney General’s office under then-AG Mike Dewine (RINO swamp dweller, now governor) sued Energy Transfer at the prompting of the Ohio EPA claiming the company’s Rover Pipeline project was guilty of “polluting state waters while constructing a natural gas pipeline across Ohio” (see 