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.
Read More “Energy Stories of Interest: Wed, Jan 30, 2019”
It turns out Pennsylvania’s current Attorney General, Josh Shapiro, is not much different than his predecessor, Kathleen Kane (who is sitting in jail for committing perjury). Kane, and now Shapiro, have targeted the Marcellus Shale industry, accusing drillers of committing crimes against the environment. It’s cheap and it’s sleazy and a total abuse of the office, all for political grandstanding.
Read More “PA AG Investigates Shale Drillers for “Enviro Crimes””
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.
Read More “PA Enviro Radicals Brainwash/Use Children to Pressure Gov. Wolf”
Banpu Pcl, Thailand’s largest coal producer, invested over $500 million in 2016-2017 to buy existing Marcellus wells and acreage in northeast Pennsylvania (see our Banpu stories here). The last such purchase was in December 2017 (see Banpu/Kalnin Buys 5,289 Ac & 35 Wells in NEPA Marcellus for $105M). Banpu is back–in a big way.
Read More “Banpu Opens Field Office in NEPA, Looks to Invest $300M in 2019”
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.
Read More “FERC Responds to NY Radicals re Pipeline Impacts on Global Warming”
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 Westchester NatGas Moratorium Begins to Bite NYC/Cuomo on the Butt).
Read More “NY PSC to Hold Hearings on ConEd’s New Gas Customer Moratorium”
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?
Read More “CNX Decides to Buy Frack Sand Direct from Wisconsin”
Mark Mathis and the Clear Energy Alliance have done it again! Mark has produced a brilliant new video (just 4 minutes long) that absolutely skewers Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC to her friends), and other Big Green windbags like dinosaur Al Gore and their call for a “Green New Deal.” You must watch this video.
Read More “New Video Skewers “Green New Deal” Hucksters Like AOC”
MARCELLUS/UTICA REGION: Lawmaker calls on officials to investigate pipeline players; WV’s Northern Panhandle resurgent; officials cite natural gas, remediation projects; Rover Pipeline donates $40,000 to 4-H; Dominion Energy, Dominion Energy Midstream complete merger; NATIONAL: U.S. energy-related CO2 emissions increased in 2018 but will likely fall in 2019 and 2020; EPA highlights decrease in greenhouse gas emissions and deregulation in annual review; Kinder Morgan sets 2019 budget with emphasis on natural gas projects; Heavy-duty natural gas truck sales down in 2018; New shale tech provides real-time picture, avoids frack hits.
Read More “Energy Stories of Interest: Tue, Jan 29, 2019”
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 Texas Eastern Pipeline Explodes in Noble County, OH – Injuries). Enbridge is hoping to restore partial service along the line early this week.
Read More “Enbridge Trying to Restore 1 Bcf/d on Exploded Tetco in Ohio”
Some great news for the Williams Northeast Supply Enhancement (NESE) project–a project to beef up capacity along the Transco pipeline system going into New York City. The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), after delaying a decision for four months, has just issued a final *favorable* environmental impact statement (EIS) for the project.
Read More “FERC Gives NYC Transco Pipeline Expansion Favorable Enviro Review”
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.
Read More “Trend: Marcellus/Utica Drillers Will Drill Less in 2019”
A few weeks ago MDN brought you an updated map showing where Utica drilling has (and has not) happening in Ohio (see Ohio Utica & Marcellus Maps – Where Does Drilling Happen?). We heard from a number of MDN subscribers asking for similar maps for Pennsylvania and West Virginia. We struck out for WV, but we do have a map that shows the location for shale wells in PA.
Read More “PA Marcellus Map – Where Does Drilling Happen?”
Since early December Dominion Energy’s 600-mile Atlantic Coast Pipeline has been idle, not able to do any new construction due to a cockamamie ruling by the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals (see 4th Circus Clowns Refuse to Clarify Decision re Atlantic Coast Pipe). The Fourth Circus clown judges are making Dominion wait until end of March for the next phase of a lawsuit brought by Big Green groups challenging a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) permit.
Read More “National Park Service “Reconsiders” Permit for Atlantic Coast Pipe”
A couple of developments to share with you about the Mariner East 1 NGL pipeline which has been completely shut down since Jan. 21 when a new sinkhole appeared in Chester County exposing a few feet of the bare pipe (see New Mariner East 1 Sinkhole Appears, PA PUC Shuts Down Pipeline).
Read More “PA PUC Begins Geologic Testing Near ME1 Sinkhole”
We didn’t think it would take long for the oil and gas industry to push back against efforts to raise the state’s severance tax from 5% to 6% and use the “extra” money to fix secondary roads in the state (see WV Republican Senator Wants 6% Severance Tax to Fix Roads). What we didn’t know about (until now) is that a second such bill was introduced in the House by a Democrat, the second bill raising the severance tax by 50% to 7.5%! Talk about nuts!!
Read More “O&G Opposes Plan to Raise WV Severance Tax to Fix Roads”