Quick! Apply pressure to the wound before the patient (in this case, the Marcellus/Utica) bleeds out. Another week, another lost rig in the Marcellus. We can’t seem to stem the flow of rigs leaving. The national rig count also lost one rig overall. For the eighth week in a row and the 17th of the…
Read More...Three weeks ago, Pittsburgh University (Pitt) researchers released three studies commissioned by the State Dept. of Health supposedly investigating whether or not there is a connection between shale drilling and childhood diseases, including cancer (see Pitt Releases Fake Research, Claims PA Fracking Linked to Kid Cancer). From the beginning, when Pitt received $2.5 million with…
Read More...Diversified Energy (formerly Diversified Gas & Oil), with major assets in the Marcellus/Utica region (and 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. The company…
Read More...Hundreds of thousands of old conventional oil and gas wells across the U.S. have been abandoned over time by the companies and individuals who drilled them. In many cases, tracking down the original owner and who should be responsible for plugging the old wells is impossible. So, the government has stepped in to “fix” the…
Read More...Quick history lesson. In 2004, Range Resources was the first company to drill and frack the first Marcellus Shale gas well, which happened in Mt. Pleasant Township (Washington County), PA. It was love at first sight. Over the past almost 20 years, Range has added a few other counties to the list of place where…
Read More...Pathocracy Has Arrived with Climate Politics Tom Shepstone Shepstone Management Company, Inc. … … Corporatism is ruining America and the West. The merger of big business and government is fascist by definition and is prevalent throughout society today. Corporatism and its variants are killing us. Ideology merely serves it and is not the principal problem
Read More...Zombie Radicals Stop An Almost Finished Compressor Station Jim Willis on NGL Pipelines Editor & Publisher, Marcellus Drilling News (MDN) [Editor’s Note: Zombie radicals, a/k/a communists, fractivists, and other destructive leftists, have managed to temporarily halt an almost done pipeline compressor station in New Jersey.] New Jersey is a Communist state, controlled by Communists from the
Read More...PVC and polystyrene resins both posted surprising increases August, after several months of declining prices. Senior Reporter Frank Esposito stops by Material Insights to talk about the production issues that impacted PVC, higher benzene feedstock prices that pushed up PS, plus his take on whether more increases are on the horizon. This post appeared first
Read More...Goodbye summer and hello (almost) autumn! Plastics News is out of the office on Labor Day, Sept. 4, but we’ll be back Tuesday. Preview: The Injection Molding & Design Expo is rapidly approaching. We give a look at what to expect at the expo and what some companies will be on hand to offer. Next
Read More...“In reality, now, if we talk about market demand it is a bit weak, for example construction, I think it should be around 80% of the volume that we need to be selling, because the volumes are a bit low in that area,” said Luis Lopez, a Mexican PVC market participant that recently discussed prices,
Read More...Natural Gas Now Best Picks – September 2, 2023 Tom Shepstone Shepstone Management Company, Inc. … … Readers pass along a lot of stuff every week about natural gas, fractivist antics, emissions, renewables, and other news relating to energy. This week: another dangerous Upstate solar fire, the inconvenience of whales, grid rescue again and again
Read More...The “Consumption Interventions” Mayors Have Planned for You! David Blackmon Publisher and Editor, Energy Transition Absurdities … … [Editor’s Note: Is there any more devious, threatening, Orwellian term than the “consumption interventions,” the World Economic Forum and its big city partners want to impose?] Following the news last week that the the former mayor of
Read More...Lapis Energy CEO Reg Manhas sees “massive” CCS opportunity in a stretch of Louisiana plagued by emissions and a high cancer rate. This post appeared first on Hart Energy.
Read More...In this Hart Energy LIVE exclusive interview, Hart’s Nissa Darbonne and CEO of Lapis Energy Reg Manhas talk opportunities to utilize carbon and the need for states to progress sequestration opportunities. This post appeared first on Hart Energy.
Read More...Here is a look at some of this week’s renewable energy news, including over $1 billion in equity capital raised for a lithium-ion battery recycler and $2 billion more for a planned EV battery plant. This post appeared first on Hart Energy.
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