Could US LNG be ‘Stuck at Sea?’

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Could US LNG be ‘Stuck at Sea?’

U.S. LNG exporters could see cargos backing up as European storage levels near capacity and as Asian gas demand lags, with approximately 35 LNG ships sitting on the water for more than 20 or 30 days, according to a Bernstein report. This post appeared first on Hart Energy.

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Eugene Repeals Its Gas Ban For Fear of Public Rejection

Eugene, Oregon’s city council recently repealed its ordinance banning natural gas in homes before the issue could come to a vote in November. The decision comes weeks after two polls show a lack of interest in banning natural gas across adults nationwide, and months after the Ninth Circuit Court overruled Berkeley’s natural gas ban, which

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CEO Leslie Beyer Leaves Energy Workforce

With Leslie Beyer’s departure from Energy Workforce and Technology Council, both Molly Determan and Tim Tarpley have been jointly promoted to president to lead the organization in tandem. This post appeared first on Hart Energy.

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D.C. Circuit Court Rejects DOE’s De Facto Ban On Natural Gas Boilers

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia has vacated the Department of Energy’s efficiency standards for commercial boilers. According to the panel of judges, “the DOE again failed to offer a sufficient explanation in response to the comments [from petitioners] challenging a key assumption in its analysis.” Assumptions Come Undone This is

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Hilcorp Well Leak in Columbiana OH Fixed, Evacuees Return Home

Yesterday MDN brought you the news that a third-party contractor “struck a well head” on a Hilcorp shale well pad in Columbiana County, Ohio, resulting in a leak that forced the evacuation of 450 people within a mile of the well site (see Columbiana County, OH Evacuates 450 After Hilcorp Gas Well Accident). Good news….

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EIA Observes M-U Gas Production Flat, Key PA Counties in Decline

The analysts at the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) have been looking at natural gas production in the Marcellus/Utica (i.e., Appalachia) for 2022. The M-U is the largest-producing natural gas shale play in the world. Pennsylvania is the second-largest producer of natural gas in the U.S. after Texas. The EIA looked at PA’s production, specifically…

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Thorny Issue of Who Owns O&G Rights Under PA Roads – Strip & Gore

For years we’ve railed against what we consider the theft of royalties and bonus payments by the state of Pennsylvania from landowners with creeks and rivers running through their leased (for shale drilling) property. The Pennsylvania Dept. of Conservation and Natural Resources (DCNR) claims that under a centuries-old law, the state of PA “owns” the…

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