The clock has run out on state confidentiality laws and results are now available for several test wells drilled in both the Kentucky and West Virginia in the Rogersville Shale–and the results are rather lackluster.
Read More “Rogersville Shale Test Wells in KY, WV Appear to be a Flop”
It’s that time of year when the prognosticators haul out the ole crystal ball and make predictions about what’s ahead for the coming year.
Read More “Experts Say Slow Growth Ahead for PA Marcellus in 2019”
Two units of the Calpine York 2 Energy Center, a new dual-fuel electric generating plant that primarily uses Marcellus Shale gas, are now up and running in York County, PA.
Read More “York, PA Gas-Fired Plant Goes Online”
RINO (Democrat wannabe) Tom Hogan, District Attorney for Chester County, PA, continues his vendetta against Sunoco Logistics Partners and the Mariner East 2 pipeline–foolishly spending gobs of taxpayer money in a frivolous and fruitless investigation (see Chester County DA Goes Rogue, Targets ME2 Pipe w/Criminal Probe).
Read More “Chester County DA Gets “Free” Help with ME2 Pipe Criminal Probe”
New Jersey’s radical Democrat Attorney General, Gurbir Grewal, is telling (off) a federal judge, telling him he erred in a recent decision that allows PennEast Pipeline to use the power of eminent domain to access 44 so-called “protected” properties owned by the Garden State (see Federal Court in NJ Grants PennEast Pipeline Eminent Domain).
Read More “NJ’s Dem AG Lectures Fed Judge re PennEast Eminent Domain”
The “best of the rest”–stories that caught MDN’s eye that you may be interested in reading: 19 rigs active in Ohio during last year of 2018; SEDA-COG aims to bring natural gas to farms; Columbia Gas outage in Donora, warming centers set up; Court case validates severance tax; FERC approves Cheniere’s Corpus Christi Train 2 commissioning; Months-long lockout of Mass. gas workers could end today; New Mexico may reconsider decision on more natural gas wells; The trade war with China is over, and we won; U.S. liquefied natural gas hits record highs again; Energy Awards for 2018 (satire); More U.S. LPG export terminals needed?; Canada’s natural gas crisis is being ignored; Fracking, energy renaissance, and Russian resistance; It’s immoral to leave the world’s poor in the dark; European gas market braces for price slump.
Read More “Energy Stories of Interest: Mon, Jan 7, 2019”
On Wednesday, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) granted approval to Williams to begin full service on their Transco Gulf Connector Expansion Project, flowing 400 million cubic feet per day (MMcf/d) of natural gas to Cheniere Energy’s Corpus Christi LNG export plant (which is powering up now), and later this year, another 75 MMcf/d to the Freeport LNG export plant.
Read More “Williams Gulf Connector Goes Online – M-U Gas to Corpus Christi?”
The State of Maryland, via its rejection of a tiny 3.5-mile pipeline project that will travel under the Potomac River, is putting more than 6,000 natural gas customers and hundreds of jobs at risk on the other side of the river in West Virginia.
Read More “Maryland Pipeline Rejection Jeopardizes 6,000 Customers, Jobs”
Disappointingly, the Fourth Circus Court of Appeals has turned down Dominion Energy’s request to move up oral arguments (from March to end of January) in a case that has shut down work along the entire 600-mile Atlantic Coast Pipeline.
Read More “Court Delays Costing Atlantic Coast Pipe $20M per Week”
If you’re a pastor and you spend more time opposing a pipeline project, engaging in illegal protests and otherwise spending your precious time with fellow radicals instead of shepherding your flock–you might find yourself out of job.
Read More “Virginia Pastor Voted Out Over Pipeline Opposition”
The bureaucrats at the Pennsylvania Dept. of Environmental Protection (DEP) are rubbing their hands together, eagerly anticipating millions of dollars to roll through the door and into the agency’s pockets following a recent PA Supreme Court ruling on strippers (see PA Supreme Court Rules Strippers Not Exempt from Impact Fee).
Read More “PA DEP Eagerly Anticipates Millions of Dollars from Strippers”
We feel like a cad. Just yesterday we gently chided Federal Energy Regulatory Commissioner Kevin McIntyre that maybe he should consider stepping down if his health prevents him from casting important pipeline votes (see We Still have a Problem at FERC – Potential Deadlock in 2019). He died yesterday.
Read More “FERC Commissioner Kevin McIntyre Dies from Cancer”
Sorry to burst your bubble, all you gas bulls who believe low storage numbers + weather (hot or cold) = high natgas prices for the long term.
Read More “Moody’s: Oil $50-$70/Barrel, NatGas $2.50-$3.50/Mcf in 2019”
The “best of the rest”–stories that caught MDN’s eye that you may be interested in reading: Jennifer Huntington: The forgotten woman we can’t forget; Luzerne County taking applications for Marcellus Shale grants; South Texas feedgas demand ramping up with Corpus Christi LNG; American oil is coming to flood the market. Or is it?; The other shales; 2019 could make or break OPEC; IMO 2020’s effect on prices for crude, refined products and refinery residue.
Read More “Energy Stories of Interest: Fri, Jan 4, 2019”
Is anyone surprised that the $6 billion ethane cracker plant complex proposed by PTT Global Chemical for Belmont County, OH did not, as previously promised, announce a final investment decision (FID) in 2018? We sure weren’t.
Read More “Ohio Cracker Now has All Key Regulatory Permits – Still no FID”
We’ve said it before and will say it again: Maryland Republican Gov. Larry Hogan is a major disappointment. Somehow radical leftists have politically emasculated Hogan and now lead him around by the nose (see Maryland Gov. Hogan Pulls the Trigger, Commits Fracking Suicide).
Read More “Maryland Pulls a NY, Rejects Pipeline Under Potomac River”