Energy Stories of Interest: Mon, Jan 7, 2019
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.
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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.
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 
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.
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.
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!
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 
One year ago, in January 2018, Dominion Energy announced a deal to buy out and merge in South Carolina-based SCANA Corporation (see 
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