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EOG Wins Contract to Frack Under OH’s Keen Wildlife Area for $212K

The Ohio Oil and Gas Land Management Commission (OGLMC) continues to do its job. Yesterday, the group held a meeting and awarded five contracts for drilling and fracking UNDER (not on) several state-owned lands, including a contract with EOG Resources to drill under 85 acres in Keen Wildlife Area in Washington Township, Harrison County, for…

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2 More Programs Introduced to SPEED Up Broken PA DEP Permitting

Speedy Gonzales How many government programs does it take to fix the broken Pennsylvania Dept. of Environmental Protection (DEP)? However many have gone before, you can add another two new programs to the list. Yesterday, the DEP announced two new programs that will, this time, really, actually, fix the agency’s chronically slow permitting for simple…

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Shell Flushes $1M Down Penn State Toilet on Energy Transition, DEI

Sometimes, we are at a loss to explain the actions of “our side” (the fossil fuel industry). This is one of those times. Penn State University, in recent years, has become hostile to fossil energy and the shale fracking that pervades (and blesses) the state. Yet petrochemical giant Shell, with its $15 billion ethane cracker…

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Encino Energy, Vendors Donate Over $100,000 to Local Nonprofits

From Left to Right: Guy Coviello, Youngstown Chamber; Nick Ruppelt, Evolution Well Services; Hardy Murchison, Encino Energy; Gary Hauck, Vallourec (click for larger version) Encino Energy, which is Ohio’s No. 1 oil producer, and its vendors, recently announced over $105,000 in donations from the 2024 Encino Vendor Charity Classic. This year’s gathering was a two-day…

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Can Natural Gas Futures Continue to Stay Above $2/MMBtu?

Yesterday, the “front month” NYMEX natural gas contract for Sept. delivery gained 4.60 cents per million British thermal units (MMBtu), rising 2.15% to $2.1890/MMBtu. Hey! Above $2 for five consecutive trading sessions! How long will the price stay above $2? Zacks.com took a stab at answering that question. To view this content, log into your…

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E&P Highlights: Aug. 12, 2024

Here’s a roundup of the latest E&P headlines, with a major project starting production in the Gulf of Mexico and the latest BLM proposal for oil and gas leases in North Dakota. This post appeared first on Hart Energy.

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