Pennsylvania House Bill (HB) 827, which would make a permanent frack ban by the Delaware River Basin Commission (if adopted) a government “taking” or seizure of a citizens’ property liable for compensation, passed the House Environmental Resources and Energy Committee yesterday with a bipartisan vote of 16-9.
Read More “PA House Bill to Make DRBC Pay Big Bucks for Drilling Ban Advances”
Another $3 million in taxpayer-funded grants have just been handed out to three different local pipeline projects under Pennsylvania’s Pipeline Investment Program, or PIPE. Two of the projects are in northeastern PA, and the other in the Lehigh Valley area.
Read More “Another $3M in PA Grants to Fund 3 Local Marcellus Pipelines”
Last Thursday, March 21st at 9:22 pm, Dominion Energy’s Cove Point LNG export facility along the shoreline of Maryland experienced a brief “flaring event” due to an issue with “a plant monitor.” The flare burned off excess gases and was contained and everything worked as it should have.
Read More “Cove Point LNG Plant Experiences Short-Lived “Flaring Event””
Utility giant National Grid has officially begun to caution (promise? warn? threaten?) “dozens of midsize companies” in New York City now applying to become new natural gas customers they may not be able to hook up for natgas–unless Williams’ Northeast Supply Enhancement Project (NESE) is approved in a *timely* fashion. Promise made, promise kept.
Read More “National Grid Keeps Promise, No New NYC Gas Customers”
In October 2016, Indeck Energy announced a plan to build a $1 billion electric generating plant (powered by natural gas) in Niles, Michigan, not far from Chicago (see $1B Electric Plant Planned Near Chicago, M-U Connection?). In February 2018, Indeck said construction would begin in summer 2018 (see Indeck to Start Building $1B Gas-Powered Electric Plant in Michigan). Never happened.
Read More “Delayed Michigan Gas-Fired Plant Close to Construction Start”
MARCELLUS/UTICA REGION: Gas pipeline would ‘rip up the clam beds’ in N.J. for New Yorkers’ sake, foes say; PUCO approves plan to bring natural gas to Belpre; OTHER U.S. REGIONS: Chevron, Exxon take turns wooing investors with shale boasts; Dominion offering early retirements after merger with S.C. utility; NATIONAL: Republicans defeat Green New Deal in U.S. Senate vote; Potential for risk and reward for U.S. LNG exporters; What it takes for an LNG export project to reach FID; Gassing up.
Read More “Energy Stories of Interest: Wed, Mar 27, 2019”
The proxy war between Toby and Derek Rice and current management at EQT continues. It’s now turned into a press release war. Every few days one or the other (or both) sides issue press releases to try and convince shareholders *their* side is the winning/righteous/justified side in this war. Yesterday EQT fired off another round by issuing a press release to announce the release of a new PowerPoint slide deck.
Read More “EQT CEO McNally Says Company Becoming “Free Cash Flow Machine””
This stuff makes us angry. Just yesterday we told you about a contractor using the sleazy tactic of filing “mechanic’s liens” against landowners in western New York State because of a payment dispute with the company building a wind farm on their property (see Liens Filed Against W NY Landowners re Wind Turbines). Last year a contractor working on the Mariner East 2 Pipeline tried the same stunt (see Bankrupt Pipeline Contractor Leads to Liens Against PA Landowners).
Read More “Another Pipe Builder Plays Dirty – Liens on Lancaster Landowners”
When we spotted a headline about Duke Energy, joint venture partner with Dominion Energy in the 600-mile Atlantic Coast Pipeline (ACP) project, investigating “Plan B” for what to do if ACP doesn’t get built, we thought, “Oh oh. This is a sure sign the project is in trouble and the principles are giving up.” But we should have known–it’s Bloomberg! It’s Biased news with a capital B.
Read More “Duke Energy Making “Plan B” if Atlantic Coast Pipe Doesn’t Happen”
New Fortress Energy is building an $800 million LNG export plant in rural northeastern Pennsylvania (see Big News! Marcellus LNG Export Plant Coming to Landlocked NEPA). The plant will send the LNG to the Philly area via truck (eventually rail) and then it onto ships somewhere along the Delaware River. The LNG (some of it) will then get shipped all the way to Puerto Rico where it will be used to power electric generating plants.
SEE IMPORTANT UPDATE AT END OF POST
Read More “Marcellus LNG Exports to Puerto Rico Up & Running by August?!”
Andrew Cuomo, contrary to the picture he attempts to paint for gullible voters and the even more gullible mainstream news reporters, is a very weak “leader.” In what has become an identifiable pattern, when Cuomo is put under pressure by the fringe left environmental lobby, he folds to that pressure like a cheap suit. Totally gives in and accedes to whatever weird demands they make–like no new gas pipelines. Even when it economically hurts the state.
Read More “Radicals Turn Up Heat on Weak Cuomo to Reject Williams Bay Pipe”
If you’ve hung around MDN for long and read our posts on the U.S. Energy Information Administration’s (EIA) monthly Drilling Productivity Report (DPR), you’ve come across talk about DUCs–Drilled but UnCompleted wells. In all our time covering the Marcellus/Utica, we’ve never come across a variation on DUCs, called FUCs–Forgotten UnCompleted wells. We didn’t know the term existed! But it does.
Read More “Raymond James Says EIA Co-mingles FUCs with DUCs in Monthly Report”
The International Energy Agency has just released its latest assessment of global energy consumption and energy-related CO2 emissions for 2018. The “Global Energy & CO2 Status Report” (full copy below) provides a high-level and up-to-date view of energy markets, including latest available data for oil, natural gas, coal, wind, solar, nuclear power, electricity, and energy efficiency. The big winner in 2018 across Planet Earth? Natural gas.
Read More “IEA Report: NatGas Became World’s “Fuel of Choice” in 2018″
MARCELLUS/UTICA REGION: The oil and gas industry future is bright in WV; Pa. natural gas fees already helping state; EQT Foundation gives record total in 2018; Gas industry pays for road repairs related to drilling, leader says; OTHER U.S. REGIONS: Energy Transfer, Shell sign agreement to further progress Lake Charles U.S. LNG; Texas needs another 10,000 miles of gas, oil pipelines by 2050: study; NATIONAL: Feds use climate alarmism to brainwash our children; Power sector pushed domestic U.S. natural gas consumption to new record in 2018; Research finds US shale revolution is responsible for saving tens of thousands of lives every year; Technology is a huge driver of the U.S. oil and gas boom.
Read More “Energy Stories of Interest: Tue, Mar 26, 2019”
A wastewater injection well that was drilled some eight years ago but never opened for business near Youngstown, OH is once again seeing construction activity–in preparation to bring the well online. Although the Northstar Collins #6 well was drilled years ago, the original permit to operate it is expired. The Ohio Dept. of Natural Resources (ODNR) says they are talking with the owners and expect a new permit application to be filed any time now.
Read More “Work Restarts at 8-Year Dormant Youngstown, OH Injection Well”
In January 2018 MDN brought you news from the new owners of what is now called the Long Ridge Energy Terminal in Monroe County, OH (transloading facility) that they were moving forward “quickly” with plans to build a 485-megawatt Utica gas-fired electric plant. The plan was to have it online and running in 2020. That’s now been pushed back to late 2021.
Read More “M-U Transload Facility in OH Getting Gas-Fired Power Plant 2021”