On Tuesday EQT filed lawsuits in both Pennsylvania and federal courts against two former employees it had fired, claiming the employees, before they were fired (sensing it was coming) had systematically copied confidential information from company computers and took it with them when they left.
Read More “EQT Claims 2 Fired Workers Stole Confidential Information”
The race-baiting, bloated old windbag Al Gore has popped up again, coming out of his massive fossil fuel-powered mansion, traveling to Virginia via fossil fuel-powered motorcade, sitting in a fossil fuel-heated church with a handful of black folks to pronounce Atlantic Coast Pipeline’s plan to build a compressor station nearby is “reckless” and a “vivid example of environmental racism.”
Read More “Al Gore Calls Atlantic Coast Pipe Compressor Station “Racist””
Finally some good news in our war against the forces of evil (i.e. Big Green). The U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia has rejected a lawsuit by Big Green groups that would have blocked Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP) and, as a bonus, would have emasculated the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s decision-making ability for all pipeline projects.
Read More “Fed Court Rejects Anti Attempt to Emasculate FERC, Block MVP”
The Sisters of the Corn (our name for the a group of leftist nuns in Lancaster County, PA) asked the U.S. Supreme Court to hear a case in which they claim their religious freedom has been trampled by Williams running a pipeline (Atlantic Sunrise) across their property. The case came up for consideration with the Supremes and they declined to hear it, meaning it’s the end of the road for the Sisters and the green group backing them.
Read More “End of the Road for Sisters of the Corn re Atlantic Sunrise Pipe”
Yesterday our favorite government agency, the U.S. Energy Information Administration, issued our favorite monthly report, the Drilling Productivity Report. The DPR is a forecast of oil and gas production in the country’s seven major shale plays for the coming month, made by the expert number crunchers at EIA.
Read More “EIA Feb ’19 Drilling Report: New NatGas Record Again”
Earlier this month MDN brought you the news that one of two active LNG export projects in Nova Scotia had agreed to pay (off) an undisclosed amount of money to the The Mi’kmaq (pronounced mic-mac) indigenous peoples of Nova Scotia (i.e. Indians), a payment of which means the Indians will leave them alone so they can build their facility and not face endless lawsuits (see Pieridae Energy Pays Off Nova Scotia Indians to Allow LNG Plant). It’s just happened again.
Read More “Nova Scotia Indians Shake Down a 2nd LNG Export Project”
OK boys and girls. Get out your secret decoder rings. We need to figure out what the heck just happened when Sclumberger and Rockwell got married and had a kid named Sensia. What will this new company, with 1,000 workers, actually do? That’s today’s assignment–to figure it out, picking through buzzwords and jargon.
Read More “Schlumberger & Rockwell Automation Form Jargon-Laden JV”
MARCELLUS/UTICA REGION: Potter County water quality work group hears of gas well citations; PA PUC seeks to double pipeline safety inspectors next 5 years; Rep. Jon Fritz goes to bat in fight for landowners rights; GAIL puts U.S. LNG cargo up for sale; $22M New York facility could turn food waste to natural gas; OTHER U.S. REGIONS: Mass. missing out on cheap green gas; NATIONAL: Natural gas-fired reciprocating engines are being deployed more to balance renewables; How “Industry 4.0” is reshaping oil and gas recruitment.
Read More “Energy Stories of Interest: Wed, Feb 20, 2019”
Last November Encino Acquisition Partners (i.e. Encino Energy) completed its purchase of all of Chesapeake Energy’s Ohio Utica Shale assets for $2 billion (see Stop Press: Chesapeake Sells ALL of its Ohio Utica Assets for $2B). Since that time, we’ve had a number of inquiries from readers asking, will Encino pick up where Chessy left off and maybe expand Ohio drilling?
Read More “Encino Establishes Utica HQ in Stark County – Now Hiring”
Last November MDN brought you the exciting news that New Fortress Energy is planning to build an LNG (liquefied natural gas) liquefaction EXPORT plant in landlocked Wyalusing (Bradford County), PA (see Big News! Marcellus LNG Export Plant Coming to Landlocked NEPA). What’s happening with the $800 million project? Anything?
Read More “Wyalusing, PA LNG Export Plant Making Progress”
Earlier this month MDN told you about a DC Circuit Court of Appeals decision that gives both the Constitution Pipeline and Northern Access Pipeline projects reason for hope (see Recent Fed Court Decision Gives NY Pipes Hope for Bypassing Cuomo). Both pipeline projects run from Pennsylvania into New York State, and both are being blocked for political purposes by NY Gov. Andrew Cuomo.
Read More “Light at End of Tunnel for Constitution, Northern Access Pipelines”
We won’t pretend to understand the wacky math Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf is attempting to perpetrate on the good citizens of PA. The state Dept. of Environmental Protection (DEP) wants to raise permit fees on Marcellus Shale drillers by 250% in order to help fund the agency, claiming the oil and gas program loses $800,000 per month (see PA DEP Official Says Oil & Gas Program Losing $800K per Month). Yet Wolf now wants to take money *out of* the DEP budget and replace it with one-time transfers from other off-budget funds. How does that math add up?
Read More “PA Gov. Wolf Proposes One-Time Funding for DEP”
The State of Connecticut’s “Siting Council” has changed its mind. In 2016, NTE Energy proposed building a 650-megawatt natural gas-fired electric plant in Killingly. The Siting Council said NTE couldn’t justify the plant and refused to issue a certificate. That was then, this is now. The Siting Council is once again actively considering the project. What changed?
Read More “CT Wisely Reconsiders, Allows NatGas Power Plant to Proceed”
We spotted an article based on the research done for a graduate thesis by a Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) graduate student. The thesis and article look at the reality of our country’s energy supply and concludes that unless we can find a way to reduce our reliance on natural gas (not likely), we need more new pipelines, and we need to repair and upgrade old/existing pipelines. In short, we have a pipeline problem in this country.
Read More “MIT Thesis: The U.S. has a NatGas Pipeline Problem”
UK oil and gas giant BP recently released its 2019 edition of their BP Energy Outlook. As they do each year, BP predicts renewable energy sources will continue to grow. However, the inescapable conclusion you get from this latest report is that LNG (liquefied natural gas) will play a staring role in the energy picture over the next 20 years. Not only that, but LNG coming from the U.S. is will receive the best actor award.
Read More “BP Energy Outlook 2019 – US LNG Front and Center”
OTHER U.S. REGIONS: Air Products with Golden Pass LNG equipment deal; Texas oil and gas industry pays $38 million A DAY to fund schools, roads, first responders; NATIONAL: Green New Deal: OMG! (video); INTERNATIONAL: Power of Siberia pipeline to deliver gas to China in December 2019.
Read More “Energy Stories of Interest: Tue, Feb 19, 2019”