Industry News

The Rockefellers, Bloomberg Take Credit for Biden LNG Pause

Billionaire “philanthropists” like the Rockefellers often claim to care about noble causes like the security of the United States’ European allies and reducing greenhouse gas emissions. But it turns out that a campaign targeting liquified natural gas (LNG) exports–which will cause harm to both of those causes–takes priority. A recent Wall Street Journal article details how the Rockefellers, Michael Bloomberg, and other

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Landmen Knocking Doors in PA, OH, WV to Sign for CCS, Pore Rights

The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette has an excellent article reporting on an effort by Tenaska, one of the largest privately operated companies in the U.S., to build a carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) hub spanning tens of thousands of acres in Pennsylvania, Ohio, and West Virginia. Landmen are “knocking on doors again” in all three states, looking…

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WV Bill Triples Conventional Well Royalty Payments if Made Late

West Virginia House Bill (HB) 4292 attempts to close a loophole affecting landowners and mineral rights owners with a conventional oil or gas well. Royalties from conventional O&G wells are typically small, as little as $40-$50 per month. Some energy companies (hopefully very few) that own the wells are intentionally late with royalty payments or…

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NYMEX Henry Hub Futures Price Crash Continues – Closed at $1.77

We’re sad to have to report on yet another down day of the NYMEX Henry Hub natural gas futures contract. Yesterday, the NYMEX price closed at $1.77/MMBtu, the lowest closing price for the “front month” contract in 3 1/2 years (since Monday, July 27, 2020). Yesterday’s closing price breaks through the latest “floor” of $1.80,…

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EIA’s Outlook for Natural Gas Spot Price in 2024 and 2025

We report today in a companion story about the crash in the NYMEX price to $1.77/MMBtu that NGI’s Spot Gas National Average jumped 36.5 cents to $2.115 yesterday based on winter weather forecasts in some states. What will the Henry Hub spot price (not the futures price, but the physically traded spot price) average for…

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EIA Feb DPR: Production Drop Continues in M-U, but Slows

The latest monthly U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) Drilling Productivity Report (DPR) for February, issued yesterday (below), shows EIA believes shale gas production across the seven major plays tracked in the monthly DPR for March will decrease production from the prior month of February. This is the eighth month in a row that EIA has…

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