Industry News

Actions Speak Louder Than Words: Did the Biden Administration Forget Its LNG Commitments to Allies?

U.S. LNG has been a hot button topic in recent weeks as the Biden administration announced it would be reassessing the Department of Energy’s LNG permit approval process last week, followed on Friday with an announcement that it is temporarily pausing pending decisions on LNG exports to non-FTA countries. While the administration is publicly describing

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Freeport LNG Down One Train After Texas Freeze

Freeport LNG’s 15 mtpa three-train export facility on the Texas Gulf Coast will be without its Train 3 for at least one month, due to an electrical issue during the recent Texas freeze. This post appeared first on Hart Energy.

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Shapiro DEP Tweaks Reg to Publish Frack Chemicals Before Drilling

Big, breathless news coming from the do-nothing Josh Shapiro gubernatorial operation last Friday. THE MAN has made an edict to those waskily Marcellus drillers: You WILL disclose the chemicals you will use to frack and drill any given well you receive a permit for. Lights! Fireworks! Loud claps of thunder (and an echo) as if…

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NatGas WV Property Tax Mistake a Hot Mess – Counties Out Millions

Last summer, MDN told you that the new system to assess valuations of shale wells in West Virginia had turned into a mess (see WV NatGas Property Tax Rule Still a Mess, 303 Cases Appealed). That mess has just gotten messier — what we call a hot mess. A “clerical error” by a third-party vendor…

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PA PUC Publishes Fee Schedule for Marcellus Impact Fee/Tax 2023

In December, Pennsylvania’s Independent Fiscal Office (IFO), the agency charged with providing revenue projections along with impartial and objective analysis of fiscal, economic, and budgetary issues for the citizens and legislature of Pennsylvania, provided its best guess as to how much revenue the PA impact fee (i.e., severance tax) will generate from shale wells drilled…

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Shell PA Cracker’s First Birthday – One Unit Still Not Online

The Shell ethane cracker plant in Monaca, PA (Beaver County) just hit a milestone: It’s been up and running (in a manner of speaking) for one year. Except during that one year, quite a bit of the time was spent NOT running due to various technical and equipment issues. According to a review done by…

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Chester, PA Mayor Claims PA LNG Export Project for Philly “Dead”

The mayor of Chester, PA (a suburb of Philadelphia), Sefan Roots, boldly proclaimed over the weekend that an LNG export project planned for his community called Penn LNG is “dead in the water.” He bases his claim on Joe Biden’s recent declaration that all LNG export projects are “on pause” (see White House Makes it…

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