Marcellus Drilling News

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Energy Stories of Interest: Fri, Jan 11, 2019
January 11, 2019January 11, 2019

MARCELLUS/UTICA REGION: Anniversay of de Blasio’s divestment announcement; OTHER U.S. REGIONS: Baker urged to reject natural gas air permits; New Canaan natural gas project could move downtown a year early; Vermont Gas ordered to show whether engineer OK’d pipeline plans; NATIONAL: Fossil generators ask Supreme Court to review state nuclear subsidies; Americas target petrochemicals; 626 groups urge congress to phase out fossil fuels, build green economy; INTERNATIONAL: For energy markets, geopolitical risk is the new normal.
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Chesapeake Energy | Energy Companies | Pennsylvania | Sullivan County

Chesapeake Drills Monster Record-Breaking Marcellus Wells in NEPA
January 10, 2019January 10, 2019

Yesterday Chesapeake Energy issued a preliminary report on fourth quarter 2018 results, and an operational update looking ahead to 2019. Embedded in the 2018 information is some blow-the-doors-off big news!
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Energy Companies | Olympus/Huntley & Huntley | Pennsylvania | Westmoreland County

Huntley & Huntley Proposes Shale Wells 10 & 11 in Upper Burrell
January 10, 2019January 10, 2019

Upper Burrell Twp map

Huntley & Huntley of Monroeville, PA is doing it again. The company previously requested permits for 9 wells in Upper Burrell (Westmoreland County), PA. They’ve just filed for two more permits in Upper Burrell.
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Anti-Drilling/Fossil Fuel | Energy Services | Equitrans/EQT Midstream | Industrywide Issues | North Carolina | Pipelines | Regulation

Mountain Valley Pipe Defends Southgate Expansion into NC
January 10, 2019January 10, 2019

A month ago MDN told you that EQT Midstream’s (now Equitrans) 300-mile Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP) from West Virginia to southern Virginia is now 70% done (see Shocker: Mountain Valley Pipeline Now 70% Built, Online by 4Q19). We expect that number is even higher now.
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Anti-Drilling/Fossil Fuel | Energy Services | Industrywide Issues | Litigation | Pennsylvania | Pipelines | Statewide PA | Williams

Riverkeeper Appeals Atlantic Sunrise Lawsuit to US Supreme Court
January 10, 2019January 12, 2019

Maya van Rossum, THE Delaware Riverkeeper

THE Delaware Riverkeeper, Maya van Rossum, along with a couple of radicals from Lancaster County flying under the name Lancaster Against Pipelines (the Clatterbucks), are hoping they can convince the United States Supreme Court to consider a case that a series of lower courts have dismissed–a case that would shut down the now-operating Atlantic Sunrise Pipeline.
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Energy Services | TC Energy/TransCanada

TransCanada Changing Name to TC Energy
January 10, 2019January 10, 2019

TransCanada is undergoing a name change, from TransCanada to TC Energy, in order to more accurately reflect the fact they operate in more than just Canada.
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Anti-Drilling/Fossil Fuel | Economic Impact | Industrywide Issues | Jobs | Research

Big Green has Cost America $110B by Blocking Energy Projects
January 10, 2019January 10, 2019

A new report (full copy below) by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Global Energy Institute (GEI) found that the anti-energy “Keep it in the Ground” (KIITG) movement has prevented at least $91.9 billion in domestic economic activity and eliminated nearly 730,000 job opportunities. In addition, federal, state, and local governments have missed out on more than $20 billion in tax revenue.
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Industrywide Issues | Regulation

Trump Officially Nominates Andrew Wheeler to Head EPA
January 10, 2019January 10, 2019

Andrew Wheeler – Trump’s choice to head EPA

Yesterday President Trump formally nominated Andrew Wheeler to become Administrator of the federal Environmental Protection Agency, a job he’s been doing without the title for the past few months. We freely admit we are conflicted about Wheeler.
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Energy Stories of Interest: Thu, Jan 10, 2019
January 10, 2019January 10, 2019

MARCELLUS/UTICA REGION: Gov. Wolf says for PA to have a strong natural gas industry, we need pipelines; Now is the time to build the Appalachian Storage Hub; PA natural gas industry paying its fair share; OTHER U.S. REGIONS: Natural gas permit draws hundreds to hearing in southern Oregon; Elgin’s garbage trucks soon all will be running on natural gas; NATIONAL: Williams appoints Scott Hallam as Senior VP of Atlantic-Gulf operating area; Utilities speed up closure of coal-fired power plants; Steady natural gas rig count might be trouble for prices; Minorities poised to take advantage of oil and gas boom; U.S. natural gas prices sink on mild weather and hedge fund sales; The natural gas price crash isn’t over; Part 2 – More U.S. LPG export capacity on the way?; INTERNATIONAL: The Middle East, Africa, and Asia now drive nearly all global energy consumption growth; B.C. Premier John Horgan expecting ‘peaceful resolution’ to natural gas pipeline protest.
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Antero Resources | Energy Companies

Antero Resources 2019: Spending & Drilling Less, Producing More
January 9, 2019January 9, 2019

Antero’s acreage location (click for larger version)

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.
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Air Quality | Dominion Energy | Energy Services | Industrywide Issues | Pipelines | Regulation | Statewide VA | Virginia

Va. State Agency Approves Atlantic Coast Pipe Compressor Stn
January 9, 2019January 9, 2019

Artists rendering of ACP Buckingham County compress station (click for larger version)

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.
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Industrywide Issues | Pipelines | Regulation

St. Louis Marcellus/Utica Pipeline Begins Construction
January 9, 2019January 9, 2019

Spire STL Pipeline route (click for larger version)

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.
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CNG/LNG | Exporting | Industrywide Issues | Pipelines

New Quebec Pipeline to Help Western Canada Export LNG
January 9, 2019January 9, 2019

Gazoduq pipeline approximate path (click for larger version)

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.
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Anti-Drilling/Fossil Fuel | Energy Companies | Exxon Mobil | Industrywide Issues | Litigation

Time for Exxon to “Resist” & Refuse to Comply with Mass. AG?
January 9, 2019January 9, 2019

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?
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Hydraulic Fracturing | Industrywide Issues | Research

Government Research Uses Sound Waves to Help Frack Wells
January 9, 2019January 9, 2019

ORNL researcher Joanna McFarlane, prepares to test a sample with the IMAGING beamline at the High Flux Isotope Reactor. (Image credit: ORNL/Genevieve Martin)

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?
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Anti-Drilling/Fossil Fuel | Industrywide Issues | Video

Must-Watch Video: Puncturing the Myth of 100% Renewables
January 9, 2019January 9, 2019

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.
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