Industry News

Axis Merges with Brigade to Form #1 U.S. Well Services Co.

Two oilfield services companies—Axis Energy Services LLC and Brigade Energy Services LLC—jointly announced the closing of an agreement to merge and form the nation’s largest well servicing company. The new company will retain the Axis Energy name and will remain headquartered in Dallas, TX. According to Axis, the transaction creates the nation’s leading company for…

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Sale of 3rd & Final LDC from Dominion to Enbridge Now Complete

In September 2023, Dominion Energy and Enbridge co-announced that Dominion had agreed to sell the company’s remaining natural gas local distribution companies (LDCs) that Dominion owns to Enbridge for $14.0 billion, which includes $9.4 billion in cash plus the assumption of debt (see Dominion Energy Loses Mind – Sells Remaining LDC NatGas Businesses). The deal…

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House Energy Hearing Highlights Wide Scope of U.S. Industries Impacted by Higher Energy Prices

As Democrats continue to push debunked “price gouging” accusations at oil and gas companies, two recent hearings on Capitol Hill examined how the Biden-Harris Administration’s energy policies are the real cost drivers behind high energy and consumer costs. Representing a wide variety of vital industries within the American economy, witnesses at a House Budget Committee

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PA DEP Issues Permits to Build Lycoming County Gathering Pipe

Pennsylvania General Energy (PGE) wants to install a tiny 3.7-mile gathering pipeline in Lycoming County, PA, to connect several PGE wells to the Transco pipeline system, along with two 8-inch water pipelines of about the same length (see Lycoming County Gathering Pipe in the Crosshairs of Anti Groups). The Pennsylvania Dept. of Environmental Protection (DEP)…

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Completed Maintenance on Transco Pipe Leads to Lower Gas Prices

While there are a number of interstate pipelines that crisscross the Marcellus/Utica, there is one pipeline system that is key to moving molecules out of our region to other markets, particularly in the southeast and the Gulf Coast: Transcontinental Gas Pipeline LLC (Transco), owned by Williams. Transco stretches from the Gulf Coast to New York…

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PA-Based Air Products Sells LNG Tech Biz to Honeywell for $1.8B

Air Products, headquartered in the Lehigh Valley area of Pennsylvania (Allentown area), once manufactured huge rocket-looking “production trains” or “heat exchangers,” which are pieces of equipment that turn natural gas into liquefied natural gas (LNG), in a plant in Wilkes-Barre, PA. The heat exchangers manufactured by Air Products in Wilkes-Barre were two-thirds of a football…

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Philly Shipyard Begins Work on 3 New LNG-Powered Containerships

Aloha Class vessel Daniel K Inouye. Matson, Inc. yesterday announced the start of construction on the first of three new “Aloha Class” containerships designed for its Hawaii and China-Long Beach Express (CLX) services. After a small ceremony at Philly Shipyard in Pennsylvania, the cutting of steel plates began, initiating the work to build the ships…

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Grid Operators Join Lawsuit Against Biden EPA Gas-Fired Plant Reg

The Bidenistas at the EPA attacked coal and gas-fired power plants in April, threatening to destabilize the existing electric power grid with new regulations (see EPA Rolls Out Final Regs Attacking Coal & Gas-Fired Power). Using 1,020 pages of new regulations, which will go into effect this year, all coal-fired plants that are slated to…

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