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PA DEP Hosting 3 Info Sessions on Scoring Bidenbucks to Plug Wells

With the presidential election only 80 days from now, the money coming from Washington, D.C. to swing states like Pennsylvania is flowing like a river, as we told you yesterday (see Convenient Timing: Biden-Harris Promise Pa. Another $152 Million). The orders have gone out to get this money (or rather, the promise of this money)…

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Indiana Twp PA Denies Request to Rezone for New Gas Wells

At a packed meeting in May, the Indiana Township (Allegheny County, PA) Planning Commission voted unanimously (4-0) to delay a decision on rezoning a 59-acre parcel along Route 910 from office/commercial to light industrial — which would allow gas drilling on the site (see Indiana Twp, PA, Postpones Rezoning to Allow Drilling Near Rt. 910)….

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Thailand’s Banpu Lays Out Net Zero Path for U.S. Subsidiary BKV

Over the past seven-plus years, BKV Corporation (Banpu Kalnin Ventures), the American arm of Banpu (96% owned by Banpu, Thailand’s largest coal mining company), has become one of the top 20 gas-weighted natural gas producers in the U.S. BKV originally entered the American shale sector by investing $500 million in 2016-2017 to buy existing Marcellus…

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O&G Group’s Annual Report Shows Production Up, Emissions Down

America’s natural gas and oil industry announced “a landmark partnership” in late 2017 called The Environmental Partnership to “accelerate improvements to environmental performance in operations across the country” for lowering methane emissions (see NatGas, Oil Industry Partnership to Accelerate Methane Reductions). The group, which includes most Marcellus/Utica drillers and pipeline companies, just released its sixth…

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Harris Surrounds Herself with Anti-Fracking, Far-Left Advisors

Kamala “The Cackler” Harris The Cackler (Kamala Harris) will be in North Carolina today, delivering a speech on her economic views and how she plans to fix the economic mess her administration has made over the past four years. She and her obedient mainstream media lapdogs will try to convince you she has changed. She…

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Other Stories of Interest: Fri, Aug 16, 2024

MARCELLUS/UTICA REGION: Clinton County is business friendly, oil-gas company says; Second phase of Wyalusing natgas pipeline project underway; MSC members support Debby relief efforts; OTHER U.S. REGIONS: Richlands receives $2 million to build natural gas-fired turbine and generator; Texas comptroller adds NatWest to list of energy boycotters; NATIONAL: J.D. Vance on tax-exempt foundations behind green…

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For Sale: Grandma’s Minerals

A younger generation more open to selling subsurface rights has increased supply for the minerals and royalties market, and Mesa Minerals III is buying up interests in the Permian and Haynesville. This post appeared first on Hart Energy.

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PA AG “Convicts” Greylock Energy, Extracts $140,000 for Big Green

In early 2018, the Pennsylvania Dept. of Environmental Protection (DEP) collected a whopping $1.7 million fine from Energy Corporation of America (ECA) for violations at 17 well sites in Cumberland, Jefferson, and Whiteley Townships in Greene County, and Goshen Township in Clearfield County (see Energy Corp of America Fined $1.7M for Drilling Violations in PA)….

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Independent Monitoring of CNX Ops Shows No Public Health Threat

CNX Resources released its first Radical Transparency™ assessment report yesterday. The initial results of nine months of continuous air emissions monitoring at natural gas well sites and compressor stations in southwestern Pennsylvania indicate that CNX natural gas development poses no public health risk. Period. The data is collected and disseminated to the public by an…

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Epsilon 2Q – PA Production & Revenue Down Due to Low Gas Price

Epsilon Energy issued its second quarter 2024 update earlier this week. Epsilon, a relatively small company, used to concentrate most of its effort on developing Marcellus Shale wells. However, over the past few years, the company has expanded into other plays and now owns assets in the Anadarko (Oklahoma and Texas) and the Permian (Texas…

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ECA Marcellus Trust I Gives Investors NO Dividend for 2Q24

ECA Marcellus Trust I, the royalty interest holder in some of the wells drilled and maintained by Greylock Energy in Greene County, PA, announced yesterday that it will not issue a dividend to unitholders for the second quarter of 2024. The company paid 4.3 cents per unit in 1Q23, nothing in 2Q23, six-tenths of a…

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Canada Pension Plan Investing $843M in Tallgrass Energy, REX

We spotted some news that, on the surface, may not appear to be connected to the Marcellus/Utica, but we think it is. The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPP Investments) is investing approximately $843 million (CAD 1.2 billion) in Denver, Colorado-based Tallgrass Energy. CPP is a major investor in the Utica Shale (via Encino Energy),…

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