Antero Resources, a “pure play” driller focused on wet gas drilling in the Marcellus/Utica region, released its 2019 capital budget and production “guidance” (estimates) yesterday. We found some interesting things in the press release and accompanying slide presentation.
Read More “Antero Resources 2019: Spending & Drilling Less, Producing More”
Finally a little good news for Dominion Energy’s 600-mile Atlantic Coast Pipeline project: The Virginia State Air Quality Board voted yesterday 4-0 to approve a compressor station for the pipeline in Buckingham County.
Read More “Va. State Agency Approves Atlantic Coast Pipe Compressor Stn”
In February 2016, MDN told you about an exciting new market for Marcellus and Utica Shale gas that may open up one day in the Midwest (see New Midwest Pipeline to Tap REX’s Marcellus/Utica Gas). That day is coming–this year.
Read More “St. Louis Marcellus/Utica Pipeline Begins Construction”
This is so cockamamie: Build a pipeline across the Canadian province of Quebec, a province that has outlawed fracking and shale drilling, in order to flow natural gas that IS fracked from shale thousands of miles away, so it can be exported from an LNG facility on Canada’s East Coast.
Read More “New Quebec Pipeline to Help Western Canada Export LNG”
When the radical left repeatedly loses court cases, they put on their arrogant “civil” disobedience clothes and pronounce they are engaging in the age-old American practice of resisting an unethical practice or situation. Is it time for Exxon Mobil to do the same?
Read More “Time for Exxon to “Resist” & Refuse to Comply with Mass. AG?”
The process of fracking (hydraulic fracturing) of shale uses water, a LOT of water, forced into small cracks in order to force those cracks open and allow the gas and oil to escape. What if you could use far less water (and chemicals) by first bombarding the rock with sound waves?
Read More “Government Research Uses Sound Waves to Help Frack Wells”
What do fossil fuels, capitalism, industrialization and free speech have in common? They’re all under attack by the radical left, and we’re in danger of losing the fight to preserve them–and our way of life.
Read More “Must-Watch Video: Puncturing the Myth of 100% Renewables”
Shale, pipelines bringing jobs to West Virginia; Peoples announces commitment to reduce methane emissions by 50% in Pittsburgh; Scott Rotruck joins Orion Strategies’ Pittsburgh office; AOC and green Hulk reveal the fractivist playbook; U.S. drilling permits finish strong in 2018, but start slow in 2019; Go public on a blank check? It can work if you’re an energy star; Record-breaking year for LNG World News with almost 1 million visitors; Saudi Arabia potentially eyeing U.S. LNG investment.
Read More “Energy Stories of Interest: Wed, Jan 9, 2019”
On Monday EQT Corporation, the largest natural gas producing company in the U.S., laid off “more than 100” (possibly as many as 132) employees, and issued a letter to shareholders trying to gin up support for the company’s “new” course of action.
Read More “EQT Lays Off ~15% of Workforce – Fires Back at Rice Brothers”
Range Resources issued an updated 2018 (not 2019) capital spending and operational update yesterday to say (a) they spent about $20 million less last year than originally forecast and (b) the company took a hit on production because of an outage at the MarkWest Houston/Harmon Creek processing facilities.
Read More “Range SWPA Production Takes Hit After MarkWest Plant Explosion”
Although Snyder Brothers Inc. valiantly fought a legal battle against the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission (PUC) over paying impact fees (taxes) on low-producing “stripper wells,” they lost. But it wasn’t just Snyder Bros. withholding impact fees on stripper wells.
Read More “List of 18 PA Drillers Who Owe $6M+ in Impact Fees from Strippers”
In typical lib Dem thinking, Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf thinks he can wave his magic Executive Order wand and lower so-called greenhouse gas emissions (carbon dioxide and fugitive methane) to help save Mom Earth.
Read More “PA Gov. Wolf Issuing Exec Order to Lower Greenhouse Gas”
New England refuses to build new natural gas transmission pipelines to carry abundant, cheap, clean-burning Marcellus Shale gas to the region–and instead continues to rely on imported LNG from Russia and burning dirty fuel oil to generate electricity when the nights get really cold.
Read More “New England Using Fuel Oil, Russian LNG to Survive Cold Winters”
Does Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey actually *want* citizens living in Boston to be denied natural gas to heat their homes in the dead of a New England winter? It sure seems that way.
Read More “Out-of-Control Mass. AG Tries to Block More NatGas to Boston”
The results are in from a recently released 2018 Oil & Gas Midstream Services Customer Satisfaction Survey conducted by EnergyPoint Research. This year’s top overall rating for the country’s best midstream (i.e. pipeline) company goes to…
Read More “Mirror Mirror on the Wall, Who’s the Best Pipeline Co of Them All?”
Rep. Greg Vitali named Democrat Chair of PA House Environmental Committee; Gas drilling down in the Piceance; Natural gas prices, production, consumption, and exports increased in 2018; The US can be a top three global LNG exporter before 2020; WoodMac: gas prices to drop as LNG FIDs hit record figures in 2019; Europe is fast-becoming a natural gas battleground for Russia and the US; Germany wobbles on Russian gas pipeline as Trump pressure starts to bite; Oil markets are in for wild ride in 2019.
Read More “Energy Stories of Interest: Tue, Jan 8, 2019”