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M-U Driller Infinity Natural Resources Files for $100 Million IPO

‘Tis the season for IPOs in the Marcellus/Utica. Two weeks ago BKV Corporation announced it was (finally) launching an initial public offering (IPO) looking to raise in the neighborhood of $300 million (see The Time is Now Right – BKV Launches IPO Hoping to Raise $315M). It ended up getting $270 million (see BKV Adjusts…

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PA Picks Up One Rig, M-U @ 34; National Rig Count Drops 2 @ 585

Four weeks ago, MDN told you about a developing story of rig realignment in the Marcellus/Utica (see Rig Bloodbath Continues – Pennsylvania Loses 7 Rigs in 3 Weeks). As we reported, Pennsylvania was losing rigs, bleeding rigs, like crazy—four rigs gone in two weeks’ time. And West Virginia was gaining those lost rigs. PA’s rig…

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Supreme Court Won’t Block One Onerous EPA Reg, Jury Out on Another

EPA Administrator Michael Regan used a considerable amount of fossil energy and emitted tons of carbon dioxide to jet over to Dubai last December to participate in the COP28 confab, where he released a final rule that was “two years in the making” to force the U.S. oil and gas industry to cut methane emissions…

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NGSA Predicts Colder Winter Coming, Increase in NatGas Price

Colder weather and increased demand will place slight upward pressure on natural gas prices compared to last winter, the Natural Gas Supply Association (NGSA) said last Thursday in its 24th annual Winter Outlook forecast of the wholesale winter natural gas market. NGSA also projected higher-than-average storage, record production and supply, and modest GDP growth this…

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Biden-Harris DOE Covering Up Study Conducted Before LNG “Pause”

In January, the Biden-Harris Department of Energy (DOE) announced it would “pause” any approvals for new LNG export plants (currently 17 requests in the pipeline) for at least one year while D.C. swampies fart around pretending to figure out how to measure global warming as a new consideration for whether or not to approve such…

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