New England States Finally Waking Up re Domestic Natural Gas
It seems the rather thick-headed governors from New England have finally woken up and understand their resistance to new natural gas pipelines has placed them in a pickle. The region, when it gets really cold (like over the next few days), gets really short on natural gas. Prices soar, supplies diminish, and people not only pay high natgas prices, but high prices for electricity, which gets generated by natgas. The govs have a plan to slap a Band Aid on the problem.
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Baker Hughes, a GE Company (a company GE is trying to dump) is holding its annual meeting in Florence, Italy. Must be nice to work for BH! At the meeting BH made a big production of announcing they intend to reduce their carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions by 50% by 2030, and 100% by 2050. Fat chance.
MARCELLUS/UTICA REGION: Rig count slips to 14 in Ohio’s Utica; OTHER U.S. REGIONS: Columbia Gas pledges to cover Merrimack Valley equipment repair costs; Lawsuits filed over Rhode Island natural gas outage; NATIONAL: Demand, regulatory headwinds seen slowing U.S. NGL export growth; Potential of AI-powered directional drilling.
How is it not child abuse to brainwash young kids with your particular brand of sick environmental radicalism? That’s apparently what THE Delaware Riverkeeper herself has done–brainwashed little kids.
This post is about a pipeline project we’ve written quite a bit about over the past few years–Dominion Energy’s New Market project that ever-so-modestly expands an existing pipeline in Upstate New York. But at its heart, the issue is much deeper. Anti-fossil fuel radicals are challenging this project, in court, as a way to force the government to consider man-made global warming when approving such projects.
This is fun to watch. The monied interests in Westchester County, NY (suburb of New York City) are outraged that beginning in March Consolidated Edison will no longer accept new natural gas customers (see 
Hi-Crush Partners, a frack sand vendor, announced yesterday they’ve cut a long-term deal to supply Northern White frack sand, which comes from Wisconsin, to CNX Resources for fracking Marcellus and Utica wells. So why is that a big deal?
A 30-inch segment of Enbridge’s Texas Eastern Transmission Company (Tetco) interstate natural gas pipeline exploded one week ago today, sending two people to the hospital and destroying two nearby homes when fires from the blast spread (see 
There’s just no getting around the obvious–that the shale industry is once again heading into something of a dip. We’re not just talking about shale oil drillers scaling back drilling new wells in places like Texas and North Dakota. We’re talking about big gas drillers in the Marcellus/Utica who are signaling that 2019 will see less spending and less drilling, although production won’t decline.
A few weeks ago MDN brought you an updated map showing where Utica drilling has (and has not) happening in Ohio (see 