Hart Energy Unconventional Activity Tracker (Week of Jan. 25, 2021)

Ohio River Corridor

Plastic Molding Manufacturing adds equipment, puts acquisitions on hold

Custom injection molder Plastic Molding Manufacturing Co. (PMM) expects to have five new presses up and running in February. Along with the new presses — two with clamping forces of 200 tons, two with 250 and one with 80 tons — PMM purchased two computer-controlled coordinate measuring machines (CMMs), for a total investment of more

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Tribes Exempt from Pause in US Federal Drilling Program, Official Says

Native American tribes are exempt from the Biden administration’s temporary suspension of U.S. oil and gas leasing and permitting on federal lands, a spokesman for the U.S. Department of Interior said on Jan. 25. The clarification comes after an oil-producing tribe in Utah last week asked Interior for an exemption from the 60-day pause, saying

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Maguire buys minority share in OA Newton to expand capabilities

Aston, Pa.-based Maguire Products Inc. bought a minority share of Bridgeville, Del.-based O.A. Newton, a supplier of bulk material handling systems to the wood-plastic composite (WPC), flexible and rigid PVC and carbon black markets, to expand capabilities. O.A. Newton designs and builds complete systems for unloading, storage, conveying, and blending of process ingredients for plastics

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People in plastics: Week of Jan. 25, 2021

ACS GROUP — The auxiliary equipment maker in New Berlin, Wis., named Jason Spangler Northeast regional sales manager. AGILYX AS — The chemical recycler in Oslo named Beatriz Malo de Molina chief financial officer, succeeding Russell Main. COLORTECH — The manufacturer of color and additive concentrates in Morristown, Tenn., named Paul Pitman sales director and

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Flexan receives FDA registration for Suzhou facility

Lincolnshire, Ill. — From a flexible sander made for Sears Roebuck in 1946 to intricate medical devices for niche markets today, Flexan LLC has experienced success across a range of molded goods spaces. That growth continued recently with the company’s Suzhou, China, manufacturing facility becoming registered by the Food and Drug Administration for class II

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Covestro volunteers build ramp for Ohio veteran

Employees at Covestro’s compounding plant in Newark, Ohio, have built a ramp to help a local military veteran. The site’s Covestro Helping Armed Forces Military Personnel (CHAMP) group built the ramp over a two-day period earlier this month. VFW Post 1060 had reached out to the group for a hospitalized veteran who would be released

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Weymouth, MA Compressor Station Now Online – Will it Stay Online?

Finally! The Weymouth compressor station, the final piece of the $452 million Atlantic Bridge expansion project that has been years in the making, is either now online and flowing gas, or will be within a day or two at most. However, given a vote last week by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) questioning whether

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Liens Served on PA/OH Landowner Property re Risberg Pipeline

click for larger version In March 2019 MDN brought you the news that Wood Group had been awarded a $34 million contract to build 28 miles of the 60-mile Risberg Pipeline from Crawford County, PA to Ashtabula County, OH (see Wood Wins $34M Contract to Build PA to OH Risberg Pipeline). The portion Wood built

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Maryland Bd of Public Works Considers Wetlands Permit for Gas Pipe

In December, the Maryland Board of Public Works (BPW), which has three members (two leftwing Democrats and RINO Gov. Larry Hogan), surprisingly approved a 10-inch, 6.83-mile pipeline for the Maryland portion of a 19+ mile project called the Del-Mar Energy Pathway Project, crossing both Delaware and Maryland (see Maryland Board of Public Works Approves Tiny

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Mountaineer NGL Storage Looks at Non-NGL Hydrogen Storage

Here’s an interesting twist. Just last week we told you about ongoing opposition from anti-fossil fuelers to a currently dormant project, the Mountaineer NGL Storage hub project in Monroe County, OH (see Opposition to Dormant Mountaineer NGL Storage Hub in Monroe, OH). Mountaineer wants to build an underground storage cavern to hold natural gas liquids,

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Most Important Lawsuit in PA Shale History – Review & Fallout

It was exactly one year ago that the Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled in THE most consequential lawsuit for Marcellus Shale drilling we’ve seen, a case called Briggs v Southwestern Energy (see HUGE NEWS: PA Supreme Court Keeps ‘Rule of Capture’ for Fracking). Now that the dust has settled, it’s a good time to take a

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Shale Gas News – January 23, 2021

Bill desRosiersExternal Affairs Coordinator, Cabot Oil & Gas … … The Shale Gas News, heard every Saturday at 10 AM on 94.3 FM, 1510 AM, 1600 AM, 104.1 FM and Sundays on YesFM, talked about Keystone XL Pipeline, Russian LNG, Biden energy policy and much more last week. The Shale Gas News has grown again to the

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Potential for oil, natural gas infrastructure growth remains ‘significant’

There’s plenty of potential for “significant” oil and natural gas infrastructure development through 2025 as the U.S. economy recovers from COVID-19 and exports increase, according to ICF Resources Inc. ICF completed two scenarios of North American oil and gas markets through The first modeled infrastructure development prior to COVID-19. The second attempted to fully capture

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