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Diversified Buys Another 300 Wells Plus Pipelines in WV & Va.

Diversified Energy, with major assets in the Marcellus/Utica region (also assets in other regions, too), owns approximately 8 million acres of leases with 67,000 (mostly) conventional oil and gas wells. The company’s business model is to buy lower-producing wells on the cheap and find ways to make them more productive. Earlier today, the company announced…

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AccuWeather Says Cold Blast in Northeast Could Stop M-U Drilling

AccuWeather meteorologists who specialize in predicting the weather for the natural gas industry issued a statement to Rigzone saying several Arctic blasts will send waves of bitterly cold air across much of the eastern United States starting last weekend. The meteorologists said the “deep freeze could impact natural gas production and operations in the Northeast.”…

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Superlight Crude Production Takes Off in Eastern Ohio’s Utica Shale

We’ve been covering the emergence of Ohio Utica oil over the past couple of years (see our Utica oil stories here). Other news outlets are beginning to notice the oily Utica. The experts at RBN Energy published a post on Friday announcing, “Condensate Production Takes Off in Eastern Ohio’s Utica Shale.” Condensate is another word…

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Darbonne: The Power Grid Stuck in Gridlock

Greater power demand is coming but, while there isn’t enough power generation to answer the call, the transmission isn’t there either, industry members and analysts report. This post appeared first on Hart Energy.

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ODNR Seeks $6M from Austin Master Services to Cover Cleanup Costs

One of the significant stories of 2024 in the Ohio Utica was about Austin Master Services (AMS), a radiological waste management solutions company in Martins Ferry (Belmont County), Ohio, that handles fracking waste (trucks it for disposal). AMS ran into trouble when it ran out of money. The Martins Ferry facility where waste is temporarily…

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Anti-Shale Group Continues to Try and Block Apex Wells in SWPA

A leftist anti-fossil group calling itself Protect PT (Penn-Trafford), located in Westmoreland County, PA, backed with big money from Big Green groups, has for years challenged Penn Township ordinances that allow Apex Energy and Huntley & Huntley (now Olympus Energy) to drill and operate shale wells. Protect PT finally struck out (legally) at the Pennsylvania…

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