The U.S. Forest Service is planning to revise its Wayne National Forest land management plan, presenting an opening for antis.
Read More “OH Wayne Natl Forest Land Mgmt Plan Presents Opening for Antis”
Williams, one of the biggest midstream companies in the Marcellus, is floating new debt to pay off old debt.
Read More “Williams Floats $800M in New IOUs – to Pay Off Old IOUs”
A new PJM report shows the electric grid in the mid-Atlantic held up well during the recent “bomb cyclone” cold snap.
Read More “PJM Report on Cold Snap Shows NatGas Electric Working Well”
Shell released a new report yesterday predicting an LNG shortage in the mid-2020s. Why aren’t new export plants being built?
Read More “Shell Warns of Coming LNG Shortage in Mid-2020s”
The “best of the rest”–stories that caught MDN’s eye that you may be interested in reading.
Read More “Other Energy Stories of Interest: Tue, Feb 27, 2018”
Craig Butler, executive director of Ohio EPA (OEPA), has struck out again by making another false charge against Rover Pipeline…
Read More “Ohio EPA Embarrassingly Wrong Again in Charge Against Rover Pipe”
Month after month MDN reports the Marcellus/Utica region breaks new natgas production records. Is there any end in sight? Maybe…
Read More “Analyst Predicts M-U Production “Flatlines” at 31 Bcf/d in 2019″
FERC once again had had to employ a “tolling order” to beat back efforts to stop an important pipeline project…
Read More “FERC Tolling Order Counters Big Green Attempt to Stop PennEast”
The Pennsylvania DEP is launching revamped forms drillers and pipeliners fill out for stream crossing permit requests…
Read More “PA DEP “Streamlines” Stream Crossing Permit Used by Pipelines”
Nearly 100 neighbors living close to an XTO well in Ohio that recently exploded have finally returned home, to stay…
Read More “Neighbors of Exploded XTO Well in Belmont, OH Finally Return Home”
Delays from regulatory agencies have caused Atlantic Coast Pipeline’s costs to skyrocket by as much as 30%…
Read More “Regulatory Delays Push Atlantic Coast Pipeline Costs 30% Higher”
Shale drilling is about to take a gigantic leap forward with a new “3 dimensional” technique called cube development…
Read More “Is “Cube Development” the Next Big Thing in Shale Drilling?”
University of Delaware researchers have discovered a new way to estimate how much natural gas is sitting in shale deposits…
Read More “Univ. of Delaware Pioneers New Way to Estimate Shale Gas Deposits”
Events related (or of interest) to the Marcellus and Utica Shale, primarily pro-drilling events…
Read More “Calendar of Marcellus/Utica Events for Feb 26 – May 25”
The “best of the rest”–stories that caught MDN’s eye that you may be interested in reading…
Read More “Other Energy Stories of Interest: Mon, Feb 26, 2018”
Earlier this week Energy Transfer Partners (ET), one of the country’s largest midstream (pipeline) companies, released an update covering fourth quarter and full year 2017 results. As part of that update, the muckety-mucks from ET held an analyst conference call (yesterday). On that call they not only discussed what happened in 2017, but what is happening and will happen in 2018. ET, in case you didn’t know, is builder of both the monster Rover Pipeline project (from PA, WV and eastern OH through OH and into Michigan), as well as the Mariner East 2 (ME2) pipeline (NGL pipeline from eastern OH across the entire length of PA to the Marcus Hook facility near Philadelphia). We learned some important information from yesterday’s update. While the good news for both the Rover and ME2 is that they will both soon be fully operational, the truth is, both are delayed from their originally intended “in-service” dates. In the case of Rover, the new news delivered on yesterday’s conference call is that full operation of the entire length of Rover Pipeline, which will be capable of flowing up to 3.25 billion cubic feet per day (Bcf/d) of natural gas along its entire length, won’t happen until sometime in the second quarter 2018–that is, by the end of June. This is the first time ET has admitted full operation of the Rover pipeline will not be ready by end of March. However, to put this news in perspective, much of the pipeline is already done and currently flowing 2 Bcf/d–even as you read this. As for ME2, following an already-admitted delay until end of 2Q18, ET yesterday said it is keeping their estimate that the pipeline will be up and running by end of June, even though the project just came through a one-month construction shut down imposed by the PA Dept. of Environmental Protection. After ET (i.e. Sunoco Logistics Partners) paid a $12.6 million ransom (“fine”), the DEP relented and allowed it to restart construction. The one-month construction hiatus has not, according to officials, delayed the in-service date for ME2. Cool! Below is ET’s 4Q & full 2017 update. First up are ET comments about Rover and ME2…
Read More “Energy Transfer: Rover & ME2 Pipelines Both Online by End 2Q18”