Natural gas is a resource with a lot of uses. Not only can it heat homes and supply electricity — things most people would typically associate it with — it can also be used to make many of the everyday items Americans take for granted. For example, it is because of natural gas that we…
With the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) controversial venting and flaring rule targeting oil and gas infrastructure on public lands postponed indefinitely, evidence continues to mount showing why the regulation has frequently been called a solution in search of a problem. New data from the World Bank-led Global Gas Flaring Reduction Partnership (GGFR) shows that…
Consol Energy Inc. plans to add another rig sometime next year. The Canonsburg-based Consol (NYSE: CNX) has been running two rigs running for natural gas, one in western Pennsylvania and the other in the dry Utica Shale region of Monroe County, Ohio, about 60 miles southwest of Pittsburgh. It’s another sign of improving fortunes in…
Brittany Ramos Coordinator, External Affairs Cabot Oil & Gas Once again Governor Wolf calls for a severance tax in the budget, ignoring facts showing the current impact fee is not only working; it’s generating more. Summertime, it’s the season for baseball, cookouts, and, unfortunately, for some lawmakers to renew tired calls for a massive, job-crushing…
Yesterday Gulfport Energy released the company’s second quarter 2017 operational (not financial) update. Gulfport is one of those companies that teases by separating the two. Normally we’d wait and report both together, but there is some interesting news coming from the operational side. Gulfport, which drills mainly in the Utica (but also the SCOOP, in…
In a surprise move, Energy Transfer Partners has sold what amounts to be 32.44% of the ownership of the still uncompleted Rover Pipeline to Blackstone, a private equity and so-called alternative equity firm based in New York City. In fact, Blackstone is the largest alternative equity firm (investing in things other than stocks/bonds/cash) in the…
In June EQT and Rice Energy announced that EQT will buy out and merge in Rice Energy, to create (in EQT) the largest natural gas-producing company in the United States (see EQT Buys Rice Energy in $8.2B Deal, Becomes #1 Gas Producer in US). You may see headlines from time to time that say EQT…
In early April of this year the 2017 AAPG (American Association of Petroleum Geologists) Annual Convention & Exhibition was held in Houston, TX. During one of the sessions, William Zagorski and Taylor McClain delivered a talk called “Discovery of the Utica Shale: Update on an Evolving Giant.” The interesting thing is that Zagorski and McClain…
A United State Senator from Washington State (left coast) and a Congressman from New Jersey, both of them liberal Democrats, have sent a letter to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) over “troubling reports” regarding Energy Transfer Partners and the Rover Pipeline project. Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-WA) is a ranking member of Senate Energy and…
When a state produces more energy than it consumes, that state is a net energy “supplier” (or exporter). States consume energy in the form of oil, gas, coal and electricity, primarily. They produce energy in the same way. Our favorite government agency, the U.S. Energy Information Administration, recently released State Energy Data System estimates for…
The radicals at the Sierra Club are taking another run at stopping Dominion’s Atlantic Coast Pipeline (ACP) project in its tracks–before the first inch of pipe is laid. ACP is a $5 billion, 594-mile natural gas pipeline that will stretch from West Virginia through Virginia and into North Carolina. This time Sierra Club nutters are…
What’s the latest with the proposed virtual pipeline in Broome County, NY? NG Advantage wants to build a “virtual pipeline” operation in a suburb of Binghamton. The location NG picked, after considering up to six locations in the region, was selected because of it’s proximity to major highways, proximity to the Millennium Pipeline, and availability…
West Virginia University professor and researcher Dr. Michael McCawley, chairman of the Dept. of Occupational & Environmental Health Sciences in the School of Public Health, has been studying the health effects of fracking since 2012. Dr. McCawley launched the Marcellus Shale Energy and Environment Laboratory (MSEEL)–a project that drilled a test well is providing real-time…
The “best of the rest” – stories that caught MDN’s eye that you may be interested in reading. In today’s lineup: Oil & gas commission in Ohio full of vacancies; don’t balance PA’s budget on the backs of Marcellus drillers; pipeliners in WV must follow the rules; new bill in Congress aims to expedite LNG approvals; shale oil…
Tom Shepstone Natural Gas NOW … … Turnabout being fair play, it’s a beautiful thing; Williams, developer of the Atlantic Sunrise pipeline is sunsetting the Lancaster Against Pipelines Stand. “The Stand” had been sunsetted. According to the Houston Chronicle: CONESTOGA, Pa. (AP) — A company building a $3 billion pipeline to carry natural gas is…