Appalachian Basin Economic Development and Site Selection Opportunities Showcased Penn Valley, PA (November 20, 2019) Shale Directories announces that millions of dollars of real estate and a numerous sites will be displayed at the Appalachian Basin Real Estate Conference December 11 & 12th at Oglebay Resort in Wheeling, West Virginia. The conference is sponsored by
Read More...Compounder Benvic will be going through a phase of integration following an intensive acquisitions and growth period. Coinciding with the start of K 2019, the French PVC compounder relaunched as Benvic Group to reflect the expansions over the past 18 months, which involved acquisitions in France, the United Kingdom, Italy and Poland. Formerly known as
Read More...Windmöller & Hölscher is celebrating its 150th anniversary this year. As part of the celebrations, the German company has introduced a series of new products at K 2019, covering efficient production, sustainable packaging and digitalization. In this interview, Torsten Schmitz, head of extrusion at W&H, highlights how each of these can be linked back to
Read More...Austrian polyolefin manufacturer Borealis AG has entered into a strategic cooperation with renewable fuels specialist Neste for the production of bio-based polypropylene in Kallo and Beringen, Belgium. Under the agreement, announced on the first day of K 2019, Borealis will use Neste’s 100 percent renewable propane as feedstock to produce polymers at its Belgian facilities
Read More...Location/Play Seller Agent BidDue Date WY, Campbell County ADH Energy Investments LLC EnergyNet 11/20/19 OK, Blaine, Caddo & Canadian Cos. (Merge Play) Armor Energy LLC EnergyNet 11/20/19 CO (D-J Basin) MORE Copper Trail Energy Fund I LP TenOaks Energy Advisors LLC 11/20/19 TX, Ector & Winkler Cos. (Permian Basin) Henry Energy LP EnergyNet 11/20/19 TX,
Read More...Ecuadorean President Lenin Moreno on Nov. 19 named a close ally as the new energy minister as the Andean nation seeks to boost oil production and expand its mining sector. Civil engineer Jose Agusto replaces Carlos Perez, who resigned last week for personal reasons. Agusto has previously worked as an adviser to the president and
Read More...Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … … Yudichak drops Democrats! He’s always been a pro-development, pro-gas and pro-labor state senator. He’s leaving because the party is none of those today. As I noted here, State Senator John Yudichak has always been a stand-up guy. He’s been a relentless advocate for labor, supports natural gas development
Read More...Jim WillisEditor & Publisher, Marcellus Drilling News (MDN) Cove Point celebrated loading its 100th container ship of Appalachian shale gas the other day. This facility is shipping our natural all over the globe. Seems like just yesterday that Dominion Energy’s Cove Point LNG export plant opened for business–in April 2018 (see First-Ever Shipment of Marcellus LNG Leaves Cove
Read More...U.S. companies had prepared to competitively supply chemicals and plastics to China just as the Asian country was set to become the world’s biggest retail market. Now tariffs raise questions on whether investment to add chemical export capacity can remain viable. × United States chemical companies spent a decade investing to turn plentiful new gas
Read More...Comstock Resources is in talks to purchase Chesapeake Energy Corp’s Haynesville shale assets in Louisiana, according to Reuters, who cited sources familiar with the matter. If the companies can come to a concrete agreement, the deal could be worth more than $1 billion. At this time, Comstock and Chesapeake have settled on a basic structure
Read More...The world’s leading producer of natural gas continues to utilize this abundant resource as the favored choice for new electricity generation, aiding in the fight against climate change. The shift in the United States to building more natural gas power plants has led to the reduction of more than 2.8 million metric tons of carbon
Read More...Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … … RGGI for Pennsylvania? Well, that’s what Governor Tom Wolf wants, but it makes no sense at all when you look at the facts on and what we’ve done without it. Tom Wolf wants us in the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI), a multi-state group designed to produce as
Read More...Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … … Pennsylvania’s Commonwealth Court has found Tony “the Tiger” Ingraffea wasn’t a credible witness in a case ginned up by the Heinz Endowments. He’s clawless! Two and one-half years ago we ran a guest post from our buddy Jim Willis about how Heinz Endowments shills such as the Clean
Read More...Gulfport Energy, one of the biggest drillers in the Ohio Utica Shale (210,000 acres), concentrates its drilling in the Ohio Utica and the Oklahoma SCOOP plays. A few weeks ago the company announced they are shopping some of their non-operated assets in the Ohio Utica (see Gulfport 3Q – Looking to Sell Non-Operated Utica Assets).
Read More...The Appalachia Development Group (ADG) is leading an effort to build a ~$3.3 billion NGL storage hub in Appalachia. From the start, the thinking has been the storage hub would be located somewhere in West Virginia (see WV’s US Senators Lead the Charge to Build $10B NGL Storage Hub). But what’s this? ADG Chairman and
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