State government officials in New Mexico are urgently seeking clarity on the Biden Administration’s executive order on permitting for oil and natural gas development on federal lands, explaining that the uncertainty could undermine economic and environmental progress including the state’s initiatives to reduce flaring. E&E News reports that the state sent a letter to the
Read More...Recycled railroad tie maker IntegriCo Composites Inc. is recapitalizing, making changes in the executive suite and entering new markets for pipeline skids and construction matting. The Sarepta, La.-based company said in a Feb. 11 announcement that it was entering a “strategic expansion” after recapitalizing with affiliates of Purchase Capital LLC, an investment firm founded by
Read More...Pipe producer and fabricator Nupi Americas Inc. is expanding with a $4.3 million investment in Early Branch, S.C., that will create 28 jobs. Founded in 2001, the subsidiary of Nupi Industrie Italiane SpA, manufactures Niron brand polypropylene pipe and fittings at the Columbia site. The company also has fabrication and warehouse facilities in Houston. Nupi
Read More...North American prices for nylon 6 and 6/6 resins as well as for many grades of recycled resins have increased in recent months. Regional prices for nylon 6 resins are up an average of 5 cents per pounds since Nov. 1, while prices for nylon 6/6 resins have surged 15 cents, according to market sources
Read More...The Pennsylvania Dept. of Environmental Protection (DEP) is once again spinning an error by a major Marcellus driller, Range Resources, as some sort of evil plot to avoid and defraud the DEP. Due to a mistake by a former employee, Range misclassified 42 old conventional wells on acreage it owns and did not plug the
Read More...A new attack against the Marcellus Shale industry in Pennsylvania comes from fossil fuel haters attempting to dispute permits reissued for existing (NOT new) shale wastewater storage and recycling facilities scattered across the state. Antis seek to shut down pipelines, rail shipments, recycling facilities, injection wells–anything they can to stop to prevent drillers from extracting
Read More...Last June MDN told you about a plan by McCandless, a township in Allegheny County, PA (near Pittsburgh), to block any and all shale drilling within its borders by getting creative (see McCandless Twp Tries to Block Shale Drilling with New Zoning Law). McCandless cooked up changes to its zoning laws that make it illegal
Read More...In late 2018 the final two segments of the already-operational Rover Pipeline went online, making the project 100% complete (see FERC OKs Final 2 Rover Pipeline Laterals – Now 100% Online). Rover is a 713-mile, 3.25 Bcf/d natural gas pipeline that transports domestically produced natural gas from the Marcellus and Utica production areas to markets
Read More...The spot price (cash paid for immediate delivery) of natural gas at trading hubs across the country, including in the Marcellus/Utica, continues to hit new highs not seen in over a year. Even though the longer-range NYMEX futures price isn’t moving all that much. Pay no attention to the futures price! Look at the spot
Read More...Kaivalya “KD” Shah has degrees in industrial and systems engineering, mechanical engineering and instrumental piano. Shah was born in India — he was introduced to plastics there — and is now an industrial engineer at Rockford, Ill.-based Pyramid Plastics Inc. Nichole Freeman started working at the Prischak family-owned Lake Erie Speedway as a food and
Read More...So, global G ... … …[Editor’s Note: This is a long overdue analysis of who is getting the big energy subsidies from taxpayers and it isn’t fossil fuels. No, green goes to green.] In an executive order, President Biden directed federal agencies to “eliminate fossil fuel subsidies as consistent with applicable law.” It was not
Read More...Jim WillisEditor & Publisher, Marcellus Drilling News (MDN) [Editor’s Note: Four House Democrats from Western Pennsylvania are stating their opposition to Tom Wolf’s seventh attempt to impose a severance tax!] As we reported two weeks ago, Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf (Democrat) has, for the seventh year in a row, introduced a Marcellus-killing severance tax proposal as part
Read More...A ban on new oil and natural gas leasing on federal lands will have significant regulatory, political and business impacts in New Mexico and Texas, according to a recent USA Today panel discussion hosted by the Corpus Christi Caller Times and the Carlsbad Current-Argus: Christi Craddick, Texas Railroad Commission Chair Jason Modglin, president of the
Read More...The early moves from the Biden Administration raise serious questions about the commitment to the so-called “just transition” for energy workers. The executive orders to cancel the Keystone XL pipeline and ban new leasing for oil and natural gas development on federal lands has resulted in tens of thousands of workers and hundreds of small
Read More...Roger CaiazzaIndependent Researcher and Publisher,Pragmatic Environmentalist of New York … [Editor’s Note: New York is imposing huge costs on its citizens based on a hypothetical (and political) value of carbon reduction that makes little sense] The popular narrative is greenhouse gas emission reductions are necessary to prevent climate change impacts. In order to justify the
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