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Peru-based Oben buys Mexico film extruder KristaFilms

Peruvian flexible film supplier Oben Holding Group has acquired Mexican manufacturer KristaFilms SA de CV from Mexico’s Grupo Agusa in a move aimed at satisfying growing demand for its products and services in North America. This post appeared first on Plastics News.

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Aborted Epiphany PA Wastewater Plant Resurrected w/PENNVEST Loan

We love a good “back from the dead” story. In 2017 Epiphany Water Solutions (aka Epiphany Environmental, LLC) filed for a permit to build a centralized oil and gas wastewater treatment facility in Coudersport (Potter County), PA (see Shale Wastewater Treatment Plant Planned for Potter County, PA). The Pennsylvania Dept. of Environmental Protection (DEP) held…

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LNG Exporter Cheniere Energy Seeks to Build New Pipe for More M-U

Cheniere Energy CEO Jack Fusco dropped a verbal bomb at the LNG 2023 conference held last week in Vancouver, British Columbia (Canada). Fusco told journalists that his company “will likely build a pipeline” that connects to other pipelines to flow even more natural gas to its Sabine Pass LNG export facility that sits near Sabine…

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OH Court to Rule on Challenge of Law Allowing Drilling Under Parks

In January, Ohio House Bill (HB) 507 became law with the signature of Gov. Mike DeWine (see OH Gov. Signs Bill Expanding Drilling in State Parks, NatGas “Green”). The new law allows shale drilling under (but not on top of) Ohio state-owned land. HB 507 encourages (pushes for) more drilling under state-owned land. Even though…

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800,000 Tons of Drilling, Frack Waste Unaccounted for in NY-PA-OH

Researchers with the University of Pittsburgh (Pitt) recently published a study in the journal Ecological Indicators. The study’s intent was to measure whether or not frack waste dumped in local landfills has radiation that is leaking out in groundwater (leachate) from those facilities. Research like this, if legitimate (and accurate), is a good thing. We…

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Halliburton, Baker Hughes See Shale Slowdown Coming This Year

Two of the world’s largest three oilfield services (OFS) companies, Halliburton and Baker Hughes, provided updates this week for their second-quarter performance and operations. Both companies said essentially the same thing. Drilling is slowing down in U.S. shale, but offshore drilling in other parts of the world is still going strong and makes up for…

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Big Green Demands Bidenistas Stop Talks re NatGas Certification

This story reinforces what we have said FOR YEARS: The radicalized environmental left will NEVER be satisfied that fossil energy is acceptable, no matter what we do to ensure it’s “clean and green.” As we have said so many times before, the environmental left is unreasonable–not able to be reasoned with. Irrational. Haters. We have…

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Other Stories of Interest: Thu, Jul 20, 2023

NATIONAL: EIA forecasts crude oil prices will increase through 2024; What does the boom in oil and gas projects mean for energy prices? Please Login to view this content. (Not a member? Join Today!) The post Other Stories of Interest: Thu, Jul 20, 2023 first appeared on Marcellus Drilling News. This post appeared first on

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Five Facts On RMI’s Flawed Natural Gas Leakage Rate Study

Claims that the leakage rate of natural gas wells and infrastructure make the resource worse for the environment than coal are once again circulating – and using the same debunked methodology as previous research by Food and Water Watch board member and Cornell professor Robert Howarth. In the latest study, RMI is moving the needle

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China, Having Bought Out Biden, Is Playing Climate with Us!

China, Having Bought Out Biden, Is Playing Climate with Us! Tom Shepstone Shepstone Management Company, Inc. ….   [Editor’s Note: China can be beaten at everything but, with compromised Joe Biden in charge, the Chinese Communist Party is implying playing stupid climates games with America.] If you do not regularly read JoNova, you are missing

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