A lawsuit brought by greedy lawyers (ab)using a group of 21 children against the United States for not doing enough about mythical man-made global warming has once again heated up. The lawsuit aims to force the end of using all fossil fuels in the United States, to address so called man-made global warming.
Read More “Global Warming Lawsuit by Brainwashed Kids Begins at 9th Circus”
MARCELLUS/UTICA REGION: Gas severance tax must solve problem to be worth fallout; Pa. should lease land to drill natural gas to improve parks; Con Ed could run out of natural gas before moratorium starts; Diversified says CNX rogue Utica well did not impact their wells; OTHER U.S. REGIONS: Record Haynesville Shale output to push 2019 U.S. LNG volume above 40m tons; NATIONAL: The natural gas price plunge isn’t over yet; Future U.S. electricity generation mix will depend largely on natural gas prices; Who will feed the LNG monster?; New report with ex-Clinton official suggests shale oil could be good for renewables.
Read More “Energy Stories of Interest: Thu, Feb 7, 2019”
Let the fight begin. Yesterday the Rice brothers, Toby and Derek, held a conference call with EQT investors to lay out their detailed proposal for how EQT should be run. The Rice plan includes giving the boot to current EQT CEO Rob McNally and much of top management, and installing Toby as CEO, bringing along 15 Rice alumni to kick-start EQT’s “moribund performance” (our interpretation of what Toby said).
Read More “Proxy War: Rice Brothers Say Top EQT Mgmt, Board Must Go”
Landowners in Ohio who didn’t like being force pooled with their neighbors have, since 2015, tried to get the courts to declare that forced pooling is illegal. They’ve struck out in every court where they’ve tried that argument, including (now) the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.
Read More “6th Circuit Court Upholds Ohio’s Forced Pooling Law”
More eco-terrorism to report, unfortunately. Someone (not yet arrested, but they’ll be hunted from now until eternity) set fire to construction equipment being used to build the 300-mile Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP). The construction site is located in Pittsylvania County, Virginia. A reward is being offered for information leading to an arrest.
Read More “Eco-Terrorism: Fire Set at MVP Site in Virginia, $500K Damage”
The New York Dept. of Environmental Conservation (DEC), thoroughly corrupted by, and a political tool of, NY Gov. Andrew Cuomo, continues to have a bad week. Monday we told you about a recent court decision that gives new hope for both the Constitution and Northern Access Pipeline projects (see Recent Fed Court Decision Gives NY Pipes Hope for Bypassing Cuomo). A second court decision has just been issued that allows Northern Access to take a huge step forward.
Read More “Federal Court Slaps Down NY DEC Rejection of Northern Access Pipe”
Southwestern Energy released its 2019 predictions (guidance) yesterday. In line with other 2019 guidance numbers issued from other Marcellus/Utica drillers, Southwestern says they will spend less money and drill fewer new wells.
Read More “Southwestern 2019: Spend $70M Less, Produce 83 Bcfe More”
An Ohio University professor has landed himself (and his research associates) $1 million in grant money to study a better way to turn raw natural gas with lots of ethane in it, directly into ethylene (raw plastics), bypassing the need to separate the raw stream into methane and ethane, and bypassing the need for a huge cracker plant to crack the ethane into ethylene.
Read More “Ohio Univ Gets $1M Grant to Figure out Better Way to Crack Ethane”
Utility giant National Grid, which services Long Island (part of New York City) with natural gas service, is threatening New York State that if the state does not approve Williams’ Northeast Supply Enhancement (NESE) pipeline project by May 15th, they will, as Consolidated Edison has just done in Westchester County, impose a no-new-natural gas customers moratorium for the New York City area. Which would block development of the new $1 billion Belmont Park Arena.
Read More “National Grid Threatens New Gas Customer Moratorium on Long Island”
MARCELLUS/UTICA REGION: Utica shale gas well in Washington Township contained; Food & Water Watch scrambles as Stevens blows its cover; Wolf says nat. gas tax has a chance; not ready to fast track legal marijuana; Governor’s proposed severance tax will impact jobs, reduce competitiveness; Shell to build innovation center at Potter Township cracker plant site; OTHER U.S. REGIONS: Exxon plans $10 billion Texas natural gas export terminal; Protesters in custody after tampering with Enbridge pipelines in Itasca County; NATIONAL: The United States expands its role as world’s leading ethane exporter; Schumer offers clean energy lawyer for FERC — sources; America is producing the “wrong” kind of oil; Pipelines on alert after Chinese cyberwar warning; As top Dem on Senate Energy Committee, Manchin prepares to tout region’s resources; Activist threatens Halcon Resources with proxy fight unless board changes; Freezing cold means love-hate relationships with EVs; INTERNATIONAL: Equinor’s profit soars in 2018; BP’s full-year profit doubles on high production; 5 things to watch in natural gas.
Read More “Energy Stories of Interest: Wed, Feb 6, 2019”
It’s good to step back every now and again and look at who is drilling, how much they are drilling, and where they are drilling. We have such a list below for the 42 active shale drillers in Pennsylvania.
Read More “List of PA’s 42 Shale Drillers – How Many Wells Drilled & Where”
The parent holding company for Marcellus driller Arsenal Resources, Arsenal Energy Holdings LLC, is applying for what has to be the fastest “prepackaged bankruptcy” we’ve ever heard of. Yesterday (Feb. 4) the company filed, claiming nearly all of its outstanding “stakeholders” are on board with the plan–and they aim to exit bankruptcy on Valentine’s Day, Feb. 14.
Read More “Arsenal Resources Files for Speedy Chapter 11 Bankruptcy”
CNX was fracking their Shaw 1G Utica well in Washington Township on Saturday, Jan. 26, when they detected “a strong drop in pressure” and stopped fracking (see CNX Hits Major Problem Fracking Utica Well Near SWPA Reservoir). Turns out the well was “communicating” (i.e. losing gas to) several nearby conventional wells.
Read More “CNX Rogue Utica Well in SWPA Affects 9 Vertical Wells, Maybe More”
A startling revelation came from yesterday’s court hearing in the tiny village of Montrose, PA. Some of the landowners from Dimock, PA who have traveled around the country claiming their water had been contaminated by Cabot Oil & Gas (remember the fraud “documentary” called Gasland?) were actually paid up to $5,000 *per month* by green groups to spread their lies.
Read More “Dimock, PA Landowners Paid $5K/Mo by Green Groups to Bash Cabot”
Kinder Morgan’s Elba Island LNG, situated along the Georgia coastline near Savannah, is supposed to launch the first of its 10 LNG export mini-trains by the end of first quarter this year, and have all 10 up and running by the end of the year (see Elba Island LNG Won’t be Fully Online Until “End of 2019”). Good news: FERC has just granted permission to begin flowing feed gas into the facility for testing.
Read More “Kinder Morgan Takes Another Baby Step with Elba Island LNG”
The pressure is mounting on New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo with regard to blocking natural gas pipelines. Except now the pressure is coming from the adults in the room who see through Cuomo’s sleazy politics. None other than the editorial board of the Wall Street Journal has ripped into Cuomo, calling his blockade of new pipelines the equivalent of a “cold weather tax”–not only on New Yorkers, but also those living in New England.
Read More “WSJ Calls NY Gov. Cuomo’s Pipe Blockade a “Cold Weather Tax””