Industry News

U.S. Big Banks Drop Out of the UN’s Net Zero Banking Alliance

It’s a mass exodus of U.S. big banks leaving the awful Net Zero Banking Alliance (NZBA), a group of woke banks managed by the equally terrible United Nations. The NZBA is all about defunding fossil fuels. The UN apparently didn’t get the memo that the U.S. has reversed course and now supports fossil energy. Over…

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Other Stories of Interest: Fri, Jan 3, 2025

NATIONAL: Improved efficiency is enabling record U.S. crude oil production from fewer rigs; Trump tells EU to buy more American-made oil and gas or face ‘tariffs all the way’; Ample supply, slow demand to temper oil price gains in 2025; Biden to ban more offshore oil drilling before Trump arrives; Antis launder donor-funded research through…

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Climate Plaintiffs Plan to Launder Donor-Funded Research Through the National Academy of Sciences

A joint staff report from the House Oversight Committee and the Senate Commerce Committee published in October exposed, in part, activists’ effort to train judges in plaintiff-favorable climate liability research via the Environmental Law Institute. Now, the activists and donors have their eye on another institution that can be used to launder plaintiff-friendly research through

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Senate Report: How the International Energy Agency Lost its Way

As the mission of energy security stays central for the incoming Trump administration and members of Congress, a new report released this week by the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources and incoming chairman Senator John Barrasso of Wyoming highlights a key area of protecting that goal: restoring the credibility of the International Energy

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27 New Shale Well Permits Issued for PA-OH-WV Dec 16 – 22

For the week of Dec 16 – 22, permits issued in the Marcellus/Utica remained healthy. There were 27 new permits issued last week, up from 22 issued the week before. In something of an unusual twist, the Keystone State (PA) issued just four new permits, all of them to different drillers. PennEnergy Resources’ permit was…

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No Change in Either M-U Or National Baker Hughes Rig Counts

This is an interesting pattern we’ve not seen in a long time for the venerable Baker Hughes rig count. The national rig count and the count for the Marcellus/Utica remained the same for multiple weeks in a row. The national count was 589 active rigs last week (now four weeks in a row). The M-U…

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NYMEX NatGas Contract Closed Near $4 on Mon., Plunged on Tues.

There was a last-minute roller coaster ride for the NYMEX “front month” natural gas price earlier this week. On Monday, the price soared to $3.936 per million British thermal units (MMBtus). It was the largest one-day dollar gain since Wednesday, Nov. 2, 2022, and the largest one-day percentage gain since Thursday, Jan. 27, 2022. Monday’s…

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New Request to Frack Under Another 4,743 Acres of OH Wildlife Areas

An undisclosed shale driller has asked the Ohio Oil and Gas Land Management Commission (OGLMC) to consider opening up an additional 4,360 acres of state-owned Egypt Valley Wildlife Area for shale drilling under the land. A new “nomination” for drilling was also sent to the OGLMC for 383 acres of Jockey Hollow Wildlife Area, located…

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Williams Announces Transco Southside Reliability Now Online

On Monday, pipeline giant Williams announced it had placed into full service the Southside Reliability Enhancement Project, an important expansion and modernization of the mighty Transco pipeline network in North Carolina and Virginia. The project adds a total of 423,400 dekatherms per day (423 MMcf/d) of fully contracted pipeline capacity, providing the ability to meet…

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