Industry News

NYMEX Natural Gas Price Hits Two-Year High of $4.491/MMBtu

The NYMEX natural gas “front month” futures contract (currently the April contract) closed at its highest level yesterday since Dec. 29, 2022, closing at $4.4910 per million British thermal units (MMBtu). That was a gain of 9.2 cents from Friday’s close. However, it was quite the roller coaster, at least early in the day, as…

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Report: M-U has Lowest Methane Emission Intensity of Any O&G Basin

The Appalachian Methane Initiative (AMI) is a coalition of leading U.S. natural gas companies in the Marcellus/Utica, including Ascent Resources, CNX Resources, EQT Corporation, Equitrans Midstream Corporation (now part of EQT), Expand Energy Corporation, MPLX, and Seneca Resources. AMI uses independent monitoring providers, technical consultants, and top-tier universities to monitor and track methane emissions in…

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Judge Rules Virginia Can Stay Out of RGGI Carbon Tax…For Now

Last November, a Floyd County Circuit Court judge ruled Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin’s effort to remove his state from the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) carbon tax scheme was not legal—therefore the state would, for now, remain in the carbon tax club (see Circuit Court Judge Rules Virginia Can’t Leave RGGI Carbon Tax). Youngkin promised…

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Net Power Makes Progress with Tech, High Costs a Challenge

In December 2022, Rice Acquisition Corp II, a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) started by the Rice brothers (Danny, Toby, and Derek), announced a deal to acquire Net Power — an electric power developer with revolutionary new technology to capture every last molecule of carbon dioxide from natural gas-fired power plants (see Dan Rice Buys…

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Anti-Drilling Trout Unlimited Crying Over $180M in Frozen Funds

For more than 13 years MDN has harped on the fact that groups like Trout Unlimited are filled with extremist anti-drillers (see our article Anti-Drilling Close-up: Trout Unlimited from October 2012). In February 2014, a national organization aimed a spotlight on Trout Unlimited and several other so-called “conservation” groups (see Trout Unlimited, Other Groups Outted…

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Blm nets nearly $7.2M in Utah lease sale

The U.S. Bureau of Land Management raised $7.19 million on March 26 in a federal lease sale for oil and natural drilling in Utah, Kallanish Energy reports. A total of 111 parcels totaling 148,950 acres were offered, with 90 sold in the agency’s Canyon Country, Green River and West Desert districts. Those 90 parcels covered 135,123 acres.

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Enbridge gas pipeline explosion causes fireball in Ohio

      An explosion Monday of a section of Enbridge’s Texas Eastern natural gas pipeline in Ohio created a fireball of flame and damaged homes, prompting the evacuation of nearby residents. The explosion appeared to have destroyed two homes, Chasity Schmelzenbach, emergency management director for Noble County, Ohio, told Reuters. Enbridge said two people

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Nigeria-Morocco pipeline to face considerable challenges: Fitch

The planned Nigeria-to-Morocco natural gas pipeline (NMGP) faces a myriad of challenges and is “unlikely to materialize in the short or medium-term,” Kallanish Energy learns from analysts at Fitch Solutions Macro Research. The 5,660-kilometer (3,516-mile) combined onshore and offshore pipeline would cross 13 countries along the West African coast, delivering Nigerian gas to Morocco. Following an agreement in December 2016,

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U.S. natgas consumption set record in 2018

      U.S. natural gas usage jumped 10% in 2018, to a record 82.1 billion cubic feet per day (Bcf/d), the Energy Information Administration reported. Domestic consumption of natural gas increased across all sectors in 2018, led by a 3.8 Bcf/d increase in the electric power sector, due to a combination of recent natural

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Argentina changes unconventional gas subsidy program

      Argentina’s government has decided to change the country’s subsidy program for unconventional gas development leaving projects in limbo, Kallanish Energy learns from local producers YPF and Pampa Energia. The program, aimed at stimulating investments in the development and production of shale gas, offered companies a subsidy since 2013. Specifically, companies were offered a

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