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Expand Energy COO Opens Up About Marcellus/Utica, Pipelines & More

Expand Energy Corporation Chief Operating Officer (COO) Josh Viets presented at yesterday’s 46th Annual Raymond James Institutional Investor Conference. Viets provided insights into Expand’s assets and capital allocation strategy. The company’s approach is based on “a very constructive outlook for the natural gas commodity.” Expand, you may recall, is the new name for two merged…

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Virginia SCC Approves Dominion LNG Storage Facility in Greensville

In November 2023, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) agreed with a petition from Dominion Energy subsidiary Virginia Electric and Power Company that requested a planned LNG production, storage, and regasification facility in Greensville County, VA, should be exempt from FERC jurisdiction under section 7 of the Natural Gas Act (see Dominion LNG Storage for…

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E&P Highlights: March 3, 2025

Here’s a roundup of the latest E&P headlines, from planned Kolibri wells in Oklahoma to a discovery in the Barents Sea. This post appeared first on Hart Energy.

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National Rig Count Gains 1 @ 593; M-U Rig Count Even @ 35

For the fifth week in a row, the Baker Hughes U.S. rig count added rigs—the first time that has happened since May 2022. Last week, the count added a single new rig for a new total of 593. The national count remained in a tight range of 581-589 for much of last year. We’ve officially…

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Small Wastewater Spill at Coterra Energy Well Pad in Northeast Pa.

The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) reports an estimated 300 barrels (12,600 gallons) of brine wastewater leaked at the Diaz Family Shale Gas Drilling Well Pad 2 owned by Coterra Energy, Inc. in Bridgewater Township, Susquehanna County. Unfortunately, some of the fluid escaped containment and seeped into surrounding areas outside the well pad. The…

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Gas-Fired Cryptocurrency Data Center Coming to Venango County, PA

The Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) published a notice in the March 1 Pennsylvania Bulletin announcing that the agency has approved an Air Quality Permit for a new cryptocurrency data center in Venango County, PA. Venango is in the northwestern part of the state. The permit was issued to a company we had not previously…

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PA Gov. STILL Threatening to Leave PJM & Commit Energy Suicide

Wow! Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro is an even bigger bully (and dunce) than we gave him credit for. He’s not only mean and vindictive, he’s energy suicidal. Shapiro is threatening the 12 other states (plus the District of Columbia) that belong to the PJM Interconnection, saying that he may cut them off from 25% of…

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Dem Senators Demand EPA Release $20B “Gold Bars” for Cronies

The Democrat Party keeps digging their hole deeper and deeper. How defending corruption and graft and political payoffs will help their cause is a mystery for us. Our diagnosis is the party has had a collective psychotic break with reality. Two months ago, a video circulated on social media featuring a Biden EPA political appointee…

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Dividends Declared Week of Feb. 24

As 2024 year-end earnings wrap up, here is a compilation of dividends declared from select upstream and midstream companies. This post appeared first on Hart Energy.

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Congress Repeals Biden Administration’s Misguided Methane Tax

Stakeholders across the country are calling on President Trump to swiftly sign legislation passed by the House and Senate this week that would repeal the costly federal methane tax. The methane tax, formally known as the Waste Emissions Charge (WEC), was included in the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) as part of the Methane Emissions Reduction

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