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”
You know you’ve hit a nerve when so-called reporters (propagandists) at a Philadelphia-area newspaper drop all pretense of being objective in their reporting and begin calling a pipeline project made-up names–like calling Mariner East 2 “Frankenpipe.” Talk about petulant and childish!
Read More “Too Funny! Angry “Reporters” Call Mariner East 2 “Frankenpipe””
If a single Republican (in name only) puts their name to a bill with 25 Democrats, that’s all it takes for fake news media to herald it as a “bipartisan” bill (or bills, in this case).
Read More “Philly Democrat & RINO Team Up to Intro 12 Anti-Pipeline Bills”
Last September the Ohio Supreme Court handed down a decision that requires oil and gas landmen working in Ohio to have a real estate license (see OH Supreme Court Rules Independent Landmen Need Real Estate License). The state legislature just overruled that decision.
Read More “New Law: Ohio Landmen DON’T Need a Real Estate License”
One year ago, in January 2018, Dominion Energy announced a deal to buy out and merge in South Carolina-based SCANA Corporation (see Dominion Buys SCANA, Mulls Atlantic Coast Pipe Expansion into SC). That merger, a year later, is now complete.
Read More “Dominion/SCANA Merger Complete, Creating New M-U Market”
In early December, the U.S. Senate confirmed Bernard McNamee in a razor close 50-49 vote to become the fifth member of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission–the third Republican member (see U.S. Senate Confirms McNamee to FERC with 50-49 Vote).
Read More “We Still have a Problem at FERC – Potential Deadlock in 2019”
The “best of the rest”–stories that caught MDN’s eye that you may be interested in reading: Four permits issued in Ohio’s Utica; PA Rep. Daryl Metcalfe named new Republican Chair of House Environmental Committee; Weirton-Steubenville corridor sees nation’s highest percentage of construction job growth; Gov. Charlie Baker signs law requiring greater engineering oversight of natural gas work; U.S. natural gas producers, facing bottlenecks, practically giving gas away; How fracking enriches education in Texas – the rest of the story; Sempra sheds non-utility U.S. natural gas storage facilities; Energy commodity prices fell significantly in the last quarter of 2018; Here’s what to expect from oil in 2019; Chesapeake Energy, fracking pioneer, bet on oil – then prices plunged; Annual natural gas storage ‘deficit’ will turn into ‘surplus’ by mid-January; With an eye on record flow from Russia, gas market braces for slump; Russian natural gas flows to Germany, Slovakia up 2% on year in 2018 at 132.5 Bcm; Warnings of LNG supply shortages after 2022 should be taken seriously.
Read More “Energy Stories of Interest: Thu, Jan 3, 2019”
Here’s the opening line in a newspaper story about the fantastic news that Energy Transfer/Sunoco Logistics’ Mariner East 2 (ME2) NGL pipeline is finally up and running: “Mariner East 2 is online, and its legions of critics are outraged.”
Read More “Sunoco LP’s Mariner East 2 NGL Pipeline Now Online!”
Pennsylvania strippers are back in the news. Hold on, this is a family-friendly site! We’re talking about stripper wells.
Read More “PA Supreme Court Rules Strippers Not Exempt from Impact Fee”