New England refuses to build new natural gas transmission pipelines to carry abundant, cheap, clean-burning Marcellus Shale gas to the region–and instead continues to rely on imported LNG from Russia and burning dirty fuel oil to generate electricity when the nights get really cold.
Read More “New England Using Fuel Oil, Russian LNG to Survive Cold Winters”
Does Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey actually *want* citizens living in Boston to be denied natural gas to heat their homes in the dead of a New England winter? It sure seems that way.
Read More “Out-of-Control Mass. AG Tries to Block More NatGas to Boston”
The results are in from a recently released 2018 Oil & Gas Midstream Services Customer Satisfaction Survey conducted by EnergyPoint Research. This year’s top overall rating for the country’s best midstream (i.e. pipeline) company goes to…
Read More “Mirror Mirror on the Wall, Who’s the Best Pipeline Co of Them All?”
Rep. Greg Vitali named Democrat Chair of PA House Environmental Committee; Gas drilling down in the Piceance; Natural gas prices, production, consumption, and exports increased in 2018; The US can be a top three global LNG exporter before 2020; WoodMac: gas prices to drop as LNG FIDs hit record figures in 2019; Europe is fast-becoming a natural gas battleground for Russia and the US; Germany wobbles on Russian gas pipeline as Trump pressure starts to bite; Oil markets are in for wild ride in 2019.
Read More “Energy Stories of Interest: Tue, Jan 8, 2019”
Chesapeake Energy has just released details of new deals to keep in place its CEO and four executive vice presidents for the next three years, paying them all big bucks to stick around.
Read More “Chesapeake Cuts New Deal to Pay Top Management Big Bucks”
Last Friday the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) issued a favorable environmental assessment for New Jersey Resources’ Adelphia Gateway pipeline project in the Philadelphia area.
Read More “Adelphia Gateway Pipe Enviro Assessment Approved by FERC”
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”