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Expand Keeps Eye on Comstock’s Monster Haynesville Expansion

But while Expand Energy keeps a watchful eye on what its neighbors are doing, the current gas price is too difficult for Expand to dive into the costly far western Haynesville play itself, said Tim Beard, Expand’s vice president of drilling. This post appeared first on Hart Energy.

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Chris Wright, Fracker Extraordinaire, Tapped for Energy Secretary

Chris Wright Pinch us! Did we die and go to heaven? Are we dreaming? The hits just keep rolling in with President-elect Trump and his cabinet picks. On Friday, Trump picked North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum as the next Secretary of the Department of Interior (Burgum is a huge fracking supporter). Then, on Saturday, President…

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Nov. STEO Predicts Henry Hub Gas Price to Average $2.90 in 2025

EIA price-picking dart board The U.S. Energy Information issued its latest monthly Short-Term Energy Outlook last week, the agency’s monthly best guess about where energy prices and production will go in the next 12 months. In October, the EIA predicted the average spot price for natural gas will be $3.10/MMBtu in 2025 (see Oct. STEO…

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LG&E and KU Break Ground on New 640-MW Gas-Fired Power Plant

Louisville Gas and Electric Company (LG&E) and Kentucky Utilities Company (KU), subsidiaries of PPL Corporation, celebrated a significant milestone last week with the groundbreaking of Mill Creek 5, a state-of-the-art 640-megawatt (MW) natural gas combined-cycle generating unit in Jefferson County, Kentucky. This new facility is set to begin powering homes and businesses in 2027. While…

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When Will the M-U Get Another New Greenfield Pipeline Project?

Environmental wackos have made building a new natural gas pipeline anywhere in the northeast (or southeast) such a heinously nasty experience with multiple and repeated regulatory challenges and a blizzard of lawsuits that nobody has ventured to propose a new “greenfield” (brand new from scratch) pipeline since Mountain Valley Pipeline, which took a decade to…

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