Ohio U. Scores $1.5 Million DOE Grant to Study Produced Water

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Ohio U. Scores $1.5 Million DOE Grant to Study Produced Water

We’ve discussed shale wastewater, sometimes called brine or “produced water,” many times over the years. When drilling an oil or gas well deep in the earth, the hole releases naturally occurring water from the depths (far, far below the surface water table) for years after the well is drilled. The water coming out has a…

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Henry Hub NatGas Spot Price Reached All-Time Lows in November

Earlier this week, the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) issued its latest Short-Term Energy Outlook. As part of our coverage, we highlighted the news that the EIA is predicting natural gas prices this winter and for all of 2025 will be roughly 40% higher than the Henry Hub price for gas in November (see Dec….

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Plaquemines LNG Coming Online, Will Hose Customers for 2 Years

According to a Reuters report, Venture Global’s Plaquemines LNG export facility (Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana) could start to liquefy natural gas as early as today. It will mark the first new U.S. LNG export plant to come online in two years. The 20 million metric tons per annum (MTPA) export plant was set to draw over…

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Other Stories of Interest: Fri, Dec 13, 2024

OTHER U.S. REGIONS: Eagle Mountain considers allowing nuclear reactors, natgas power plants in city; NATIONAL: U.S. natural gas futures gain on big inventory draw; No winners seen in Trump’s ‘hugely destructive’ energy tariffs; Investigation ties fashion to fracking in the USA; Trump’s choice to run Energy says fossil fuels are virtuous; ExxonMobil eyes data centre…

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OH Senate Passes Bill Extending Time Drillers Can Frack State Land

In something of a surprise (for us), the Ohio State Senate passed House Bill (HB) 308 yesterday, a bill that extends the standard lease terms for drillers who want to drill under (not on) state-owned land from three years to five years. The bill also extends the total amount of time fracking operations can last…

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$11B Power Line from Upstate NY Solar & Wind to NYC Canceled

For those unlucky enough to live in New York City and its sprawling suburbs, get ready for blackouts due to the lack of electricity. The state of New York and developers of the 175-mile Clean Path NY transmission line have “mutually agreed to terminate” contracts underpinning the project, which was planned to come online in…

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O&G Coalition Presses Speaker Johnson to Vote on Permitting Bill

In July, U.S. Senator Joe Manchin (West Virginia), the Democrat chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, and Senator John Barrasso (from Wyoming), the ranking Republican member of the same committee, drafted and released the Energy Permitting Reform Act of 2024 (see Barrasso, Manchin Release Bipartisan Energy Permitting Reform Bill). The bill aims…

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New Jersey Readies Massive New Tax on Oil & Gas Facilities

You can’t fix stupid. You can only vote it out of office. From the outskirts of New York to the Delaware River shoreline across from Philadelphia, New Jersey is home to numerous oil and natural gas facilities. A New Jersey Senate committee is seriously discussing (planning) an insane new tax on those facilities as a…

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