Is this really the depths to which we’ve now descended? If you disagree with a legitimate, legal business and their right to engage in a legitimate, legal practice (but you don’t like it), you bastardize the legal system and launch a criminal investigation?
Read More “Mountain Valley Pipeline Under “Criminal” Investigation by Feds”
In 2013 Eureka Resources built a Marcellus Shale wastewater treatment facility near Towanda (Bradford County), PA with a capacity to treat up to 10,000 barrels of wastewater per day (see Eureka Resources Building PA’s Biggest Marcellus Wastewater Plant). Among the products produced at the “Standing Stone” plant near Towanda is swimming pool salt. Antis are having a cow.
Read More “PA Fracking Wastewater Turned into Clorox Pool Salt”
Last week Equitrans Midstream (formerly EQT Midstream) released their fourth quarter and full year 2018 update (see Mountain Valley Pipeline Will be Done and Online in 2019). Something that the Pittsburgh Business Times picked up on is that there was a lot of talk about water–as in expanding the company’s water offerings by building new water pipelines.
Read More “Equitrans Branching Out into Water Pipelines”
It’s been a while, quite a while, since we’ve heard anything from or about EV Energy Partners, which renamed itself to Harvest Oil & Gas after exiting bankruptcy last June (see EV Energy Partners Emerges from Bankruptcy with New Name). Harvest still owns assets in the Utica Shale. What’s the company been up to?
Read More “Former EV Energy Partners Sells Stake in San Juan Basin”
“OK Republicans, time to put up or shut up” (so says the wacky left-wing fringe of the Democrat Party). “You don’t like the Dem’s Green New Deal? You think it’s certifiably crazy (which it is)? Tell us what *your* plan is to save the environment.” Glad you asked! Republicans have one, and it’s called switching to natural gas. Republicans propose to replace Communist-inspired Green New Deal with a Blue Real Deal.
Read More “Republicans Respond to Green New Deal with Blue Real Deal”
A drilling team with experience drilling more than 1,000 Marcellus shale wells in Pennsylvania with laterals from 1,500 feet to 11,000 feet recently published a research paper looking at best practices and what it will take to routinely drill wells with laterals longer than 18,000 feet.
Read More “Marcellus Laterals Get Longer – Heading for 18,000 Feet!”
Heading into winter 2018/2019, gas bulls believed low storage numbers + weather (hot or cold) = high natgas prices. It didn’t work out that way. Although it sounds mundane, how much natural gas in “working storage” (i.e. gas stored and available to draw upon during winter) does, or rather did, have a great deal to do with the price of natural gas. But a direct correlation between storage and price does not seem to exist any more.
Read More “EIA Says NatGas in Storage Below Average Rest of Winter”
MARCELLUS/UTICA REGION: DEP invites comments on water quality certification, permits for PennEast Pipeline project; Gas shortages give New York an early taste of the Green New Deal; Cuomo’s to blame for Westchester’s gas crisis; OTHER U.S. REGIONS: Gas companies could face hefty fines; Texas oil and natural gas industry paid more than $14 billion in taxes, royalties in 2018; NATIONAL: Halliburton at 100: From wagons and mules to 21st century technology; U.S. shale executives predict oil production constraints to remain; INTERNATIONAL: Oil hits 2019-high on OPEC supply cuts, U.S. sanctions on Iran and Venezuela; Eni, Sabic to jointly develop natural gas technology; EU starts natural gas price war Trump and Putin will love.
Read More “Energy Stories of Interest: Mon, Feb 18, 2019”
The latest edition of the MDN Weekly Digest is now ready. The digest is the meat and “essence” of each story for all posts appearing on the MDN website during the past week, collected in a single PDF document capable of being downloaded and printed. The Weekly Digest is available to paying subscribers only as part of your monthly or annual subscription to MDN.
Read More “MDN Weekly Digest – Feb 16, 2019”
EQT released its fourth quarter and full year 2018 update yesterday. The numbers show the company lost, on paper, $2.2 billion–but the loss was from “impairments,” writing off the value of old assets they had sold. Not an actual $2.2B out-of-pocket loss. The company, which is the largest natural gas producer in the U.S., produced 1.49 trillion cubic feet equivalent of gas in 2018, up an incredible 68% from the 888 billion cubic feet produced in 2017.
Read More “EQT 2018: $2.2B Loss; CEO Ridicules Rice Plan, No “Magic App””
It seems we owe an apology to Williams for the story we ran earlier this week (see PA Businesses Still Not Paid for Atlantic Sunrise Pipeline Work). We took Williams to task for the fact many of the subcontractors that did work for their contractor Welded Construction have still not been paid for work done on the Atlantic Sunrise Pipeline project. There’s far more to the story, including details on how those subcontractors can get their money.
Read More “New Details on Williams and Unpaid Pipe Contractors in Lancaster”
TransCanada has cooked up a plan to expand an existing pipeline in New England and connect it to a point in Quebec to flow gas from the opposite side of the continent, Western Canadian natural gas (over 1,000 miles away), into New England! And we can’t get a single new pipeline project approved to flow Marcellus gas a few hundred miles away into New England. Something is seriously wrong with this picture.
Read More “TransCanada Plans to Move Western Canadian Gas into New England”
Eclipse Resources, which is about to be merged with Blue Ridge Mountain Resources (the old Magnum Hunter Resources), just posted its fourth quarter and full year production results, along with 2018 proved reserves numbers. The update is short and not-so-sweet.
Read More “Eclipse 2018 Production (but not Financial) Results”
Blocking pipelines into New York State and New England has real-world consequences. Lack of natural gas supplies is causing multiple local utility companies in New England and New York State to put moratoriums on new customers from hooking up to natural gas. Another local utility yesterday announced a moratorium–this latest one in Massachusetts.
Read More “Another New England Utility Says No New Gas Customers”
Although there are still a few regulatory hurdles to jump, Equitrans Midstream (nee EQT Midstream) announced yesterday during their quarterly/annual update that the company’s 303-mile Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP) project is still on track to be done and online by the end of this year.
Read More “Mountain Valley Pipeline Will be Done and Online in 2019”
Last month the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) gave permission to TransCanada’s Columbia Pipeline group to start up a portion of the Mountaineer XPress Pipeline in West Virginia (see FERC OK’s Mountaineer XPress Pipe to Start Up in WV). Columbia says the rest of the Mountaineer project is now ready to go online.
Read More “Rest of Mountaineer XPress Pipeline Ready to Go Online Now”