PJM is the largest electric grid operator in the U.S. It serves 65 million people in 13 states plus the District of Columbia (including PA, OH, and WV). PJM came under withering criticism for an almost blackout during the cold Christmas snap of December 2022. If not for certain gas-fired peaker plants, like that in…
Read More...Pennsylvania’s Pipeline Investment Program (PIPE) grants cover part of the cost of building new natural gas pipelines to connect homes and businesses, typically in rural parts of the state, to homegrown Marcellus Shale gas supplies. We’ve written about many of the dozens of PIPE grant projects awarded over the years (see our PIPE stories here)….
Read More...In November, the Municipal Authority of Westmoreland County (MAWC) issued a water conservation warning asking more than 56,000 MAWC customers to conserve water due to the lack of rainfall and the low level of the Beaver Run Reservoir (see Olympus, CNX Blocked from Using Reservoir Water for Fracking). MAWC provides water to more than 122,000…
Read More...The American Energy Alliance and the Committee to Unleash Prosperity recently sponsored a survey of 1,600 likely voters equally divided among eight “battleground” states (Georgia, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Arizona, Nevada, Michigan, Missouri, and Ohio) conducted by MWR Strategies in December 2023. The total sample margin of error is 2.45%. The survey results confirm that there has…
Read More...OTHER U.S. REGIONS: Judge orders wind farm dismantled in win for tribal sovereignty; NATIONAL: Manchin responds to far-left climate activists; Occidental CEO says market will be short oil by 2025; A federal power grid would be everyone’s worst nightmare; Clean hydrogen rules focus on ‘three pillars’; INTERNATIONAL: Why are these energy ‘experts’ always acting so…
Read More...Houston-based Mexico Pacific Ltd., which is developing the 15 mtpa Saguaro Energia LNG project in Mexico, will source Permian Basin gas for LNG exports to Asia. This post appeared first on Hart Energy.
Read More...Last week’s American Petroleum Institute “State of American Energy” program provided hope that a bipartisan approach to contentious energy development issues may have a path forward in Congress. Senators Bill Cassidy (R-LA) and John Hickenlooper (D-CO), both members of the Senate Energy & Natural Resources Committee, recently participated in an API panel earlier that covered
Read More...The CO2 convective reformer will enable 8 Rivers’ 8RH2 technology to capture nearly all CO2 as part of its process, the company says. This post appeared first on Hart Energy.
Read More...Well, that didn’t take long. Yesterday we told you about the huge jump in the price of natural gas, both the futures price and the spot (physically traded) price, due to the brutal cold snap much of the country is currently experiencing (see NatGas Prices Make Huge Jump on Deep Freeze – Some M-U Prices…
Read More...The latest monthly U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) Drilling Productivity Report (DPR) for January, issued yesterday (below), shows EIA believes shale gas production across the seven major plays tracked in the monthly DPR for February will *decrease* production from the prior month of January. This is the seventh month in a row that EIA has…
Read More...In November 2022, one of the ten natural gas storage wells at the Equitrans Rager Mountain Gas Storage Area in Jackson Township, Cambria County (in Pennsylvania), began to leak. Equitrans is the owner/operator of Rager Mountain. The well leaked roughly 100 million cubic feet per day (MMcf/d) of gas into the atmosphere (see Equitrans Gas…
Read More...Only in the mind of twisted leftists does this make sense. New York State is energy-hungry. Yet our state “leaders” demand we begin to phase out the one source of energy that provides something like 90% of all energy in the state: Natural gas and oil. You have to replace all that energy somehow. The…
Read More...LS Power, headquartered in New York City, has developed or acquired 47,000 MW of power generation, including utility-scale solar, wind, hydro, battery energy storage, and natural gas-fired facilities. We’ve previously mentioned LS Power in a number of MDN articles (see our LS articles here). The company issued a press release yesterday to announce it has…
Read More...Riley Exploration Permian’s February quarterly cash dividend is the 20th consecutive distribution made by the company. This post appeared first on Hart Energy.
Read More...Occidental CEO Vicki Hollub, speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, said the markets are unbalanced. This post appeared first on Hart Energy.
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