Bill desRosiers External Affairs Coordinator, Cabot Oil & Gas The Shale Gas News, heard every Saturday at 10 AM on 94.3 FM and 1510 AM, talked about top producers, oil prices, longest Marcellus well and much more last week. Every Saturday Rusty Fender and I host a morning radio show to discuss all things natural…
The Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP) is a $3.5 billion, 303-mile pipeline that will run from Wetzel County, WV to the Transco Pipeline in Pittsylvania County, VA. The project, which filed an official application with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission in October 2015, is being built by EQT, NextEra Energy and several other partners. The project…
The “best of the rest” – stories that caught MDN’s eye that you may be interested in reading. In today’s lineup: Ohio anti-fracking ‘digital disruption powerhour’ a huge disappointment; FirstEnergy executive vice president James H. Lash to retire; EQT/Rice merger could make more office space available at Southpointe; Environmentalists bring PA closer to financial ruin; U.S. Secretary of…
The Mountain Valley Pipeline has received its final environmental review ahead of a vote on the 304-mile project carrying Marcellus Shale natural gas through West Virginia and Virginia. The environmental assessment was released Friday by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), which regulates interstate pipeline construction. The pipeline, which will have the capacity of 2…
EQT Corp will purchase Rice Energy and become the largest natural gas producer in the United States. The post EQT will purchase Rice Energy for $6.7 billion appeared first on Shale Gas Reporter. Continue Reading: Shale Gas Reporter
EQT Corp. and Rice Energy Inc. have entered into a definitive merger agreement. Continue Reading: Latest News
On Monday EQT announced what is some of the biggest news MDN has covered in the past few years: EQT is buying Rice Energy (see EQT Buys Rice Energy in $8.2B Deal, Becomes #1 Gas Producer in US). The resulting merger, which will be completed later this year (if regulators and shareholders approve), will result…
Move over Exxon Mobil and Chesapeake Energy. There’s now (or soon will be, when the transaction is complete) a new #1 natural gas producer in the United States: EQT. In a deal you’ve no doubt heard about from multiple sources by now (because the news broke yesterday, just after MDN published for the day), EQT…
As we were reading about yesterday’s big news of EQT buying Rice Energy, we came across a couple of lists (same list, different sources) listing the top 10 natural gas-producing companies in the United States. The list was reworked to show that the combination of EQT and Rice will create the #1 largest natural gas-producing…
An oil and gas company already one of the region’s most active drillers has bought an Ohio shale-drilling powerhouse for $6.7 billion, creating a monster in the domestic natural-gas industry. EQT Corp. announced the planned acquisition of Rice Energy Inc. on Monday. Both companies are especially active in the Marcellus shale in nearby southwestern Pennsylvania,…
Jim Willis Editor & Publisher, Marcellus Drilling News (MDN) … … The increasingly radical Rockefeller family is funding an anti-pipeline campaign on many fronts, including in West Virginia where their puppets are suing. A group of profoundly radical “environmental” organizations filed a lawsuit in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit last Friday against the…
The Pennsylvania Environmental Hearing Board fined EQT Corp $1.1 million for a 2012 leak from a Marcellus Shale wastewater pit. The post EQT fined $1.1M for wastewater leak in Marcellus Shale appeared first on Shale Gas Reporter. Continue Reading: Shale Gas Reporter
Bill desRosiers External Affairs Coordinator, Cabot Oil & Gas The Shale Gas News, heard every Saturday at 10 AM on 94.3 FM and 1510 AM, talked about the climate pact, natural gas exports, 3 Mile Island and much more last week. Every Saturday Rusty Fender and I host a morning radio show to discuss all…
Earlier this week MDN reported on the recent West Virginia Supreme Court decision to reverse it’s earlier decision and allow EQT (and by extension, other drillers) to deduct some post-production expenses from royalties paid to landowners (see WV Supreme Court Reverses Itself, Post-Production Deductions OK). The Leggett v. EQT case turned on the meaning of…
In October 2014, the Pennsylvania Dept. of Environmental Protection (DEP) fined Marcellus driller EQT a whopping $4.53 million for a leaky wastewater impoundment in Tioga County, PA (see PA DEP Levies Biggest Fine Ever, $4.5M Against EQT). While EQT did not say there wasn’t a problem with leaks at the site, they did say the…