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Beetaloo Juice: US Shale Explores Down Under

Tamboran Resources has put together the largest shale-gas leasehold in Australia’s Beetaloo Basin, with plans for a 1.5+ Bcf/d play. Behind its move now to manufacturing mode are American geologists and E&P-builders, a longtime Australian wildcatter, a U.S. shale-rig operator and a U.S. shale pressure-pumper. This post appeared first on Hart Energy.

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SENIOR WHITE HOUSE CLIMATE ADVISOR DEFENDS OIL AND GAS INDUSTRY

Senior Climate Adviser to the White House, John Podesta, praised the oil and gas industry and defended its continued development in recent comments to the Guardian: “The US is now the number one producer of oil and gas in the world, the number one exporter of natural gas, and that’s a good thing, because following

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Antis Try to Smear MVP with Misleading “Second Water Rupture” Story

We previously reported that a section of the 303-mile Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP) in Roanoke County, Virginia, ruptured during a water test in early May (see Section of MVP Ruptures Near Roanoke Under Water Pressure Test). Pressure testing is done using water before a new natgas pipeline is brought online. Water is pumped through the…

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PA DEP to Host Virtual Hearing for Lycoming County Gathering Pipe

Last week, MDN told you that two Big Green groups in Pennsylvania, Trout Unlimited and the Mid State Trail Association, are attempting to block a project by Pennsylvania General Energy (PGE) to install a tiny 3.7-mile gathering pipeline to connect several PGE wells to the Transco pipeline system, along with two 8-inch water pipelines of…

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Republicans Say PA Gov. Shapiro’s Proposed Carbon Tax is Dead

In March, Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro traveled to Scranton, PA, to announce a proposal to “immediately pull Pennsylvania out of a multi-state carbon cap-and-trade program” (the so-called Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, or RGGI) and instead enroll PA in its very own RGGI-like carbon tax program (see PA Gov. Shapiro Proposes Own Version of Marcellus-Killing Carbon…

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EQT 2023 ESG Report Titled “Unlimited Potential” Touts NatGas

EQT Corporation continues to be the #1 highest-producing natural gas driller in the U.S. — at least for now, until Chesapeake Energy merges with Southwestern Energy to eclipse EQT as the #1 driller. But for now, it’s EQT. Yesterday, EQT released its 2023 Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) report, titled “Unlimited Potential.” Among the noteworthy…

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