Here comes summer! But wait, you may ask yourself, how do I cool off this summer if the local pool is closed due to the coronavirus? If your immediate answer was buy a little pool for the backyard, you may already be too late. The Los Angeles Times reports that demand for inflatable vinyl pools
Read More...Austria-headquartered packaging solutions and recycling specialist Alpla has announced that it is acquiring Bopla S.A. as part of an asset deal. Founded in 1978, Bopla is located in Les Franqueses near Barcelona. The company produces extrusion blow molded and injection stretch molded packaging, mainly for customers in the cosmetics, personal and household care market segments.
Read More...Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. . … Joe Biden is in a political vise; squeezed by radical greens on the one side and labor on the other. He can’t win Pennsylvania without the latter, though. Joe Biden will be the Democrat nominee for President this year, but can he win Pennsylvania in November? That’s unclear.
Read More...EQT recently closed on the $125 sale of non-core assets in the Appalachian Basin to Diversified Gas and Oil PLC, according to Kallanish Energy. The deal includes potential contingent considerations of up to an additional $20 million, based on future commodity prices. It also relieves EQT of about $47 million in asset retirement obligations and
Read More...Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. . … Natural gas has reduced emissions on every score, including CO2 emissions, a fact the Church of Climate should love but it’s an anti-gas cult so… The “Church of Climate” is a wonderful term. Nick Delullis is the president and CEO of CNX Resources Corporation. I wrote about him
Read More...Honda, BMW and Mercedes-Benz are canceling their traditional summer factory downtime at U.S. and Canadian plants to boost vehicle inventory as sales improve thanks to easing stay-at-home guidelines. The automakers are eager to replenish inventory after their factories were idled for several weeks in accordance with government coronavirus rules. Detroit 3 automakers soon will notify
Read More...Mytex Polymers U.S. Corp is investing more than $7 million to increase capacity in Georgia in a move that will create 15 new jobs. Mytex will add a production line at its 140,000-square-foot location in Covington, near Atlanta, officials said in a May 26 news release. They added that the line is needed because of
Read More...Detroit — Plastics News will transition its annual Plastics Caps & Closures Conference to a virtual format, running Sept. 21-25 and featuring nearly 25 speakers. The event will include 15 virtual sessions. The conference had been scheduled to take place Sept. 21-23 in Schaumburg, Ill., but is transitioning to a virtual schedule in light of
Read More...It’s been five years since anti-energy activists created the “____ Knew” campaign attacking energy companies for allegedly conspiring to hide climate change from the public, and in that time they’ve managed to rack up a stunning losing streak in the courts. Their latest stunt attempts to flip the script, alleging that “BP Knew” about climate
Read More...Natalie DeCarioExternal Affairs Coordinator, Cabot Oil & Gas … … [Editor Comment: Camp Freedom helps heal disabled veteran heroes and others and is the beneficiary of Cabot donated pipe it is using for fencing. It doesn’t get better!] In February, Cabot made a significant donation of drilling pipe earmarked for the salvage yard to the managers
Read More...Roger CaiazzaIndependent Researcher and Publisher,Pragmatic Environmentalist of New York … [Editor Comment: Carbon Free New York is the latest sloganeering attempt at green political correctness in a state where government seems free of a cerebral cortex. I have to give credit to the supporters for NYISO carbon pricing proposal. They are pulling out all the
Read More...No sooner had we started producing weekly new shale permits issued reports than the Ohio Dept. of Natural Resources (ODNR) website experienced some sort of catastrophic failure. While portions of the site have now returned, they still do not have the database reconnected that delivers weekly updates for new permits. We decided we could not
Read More...Yesterday the Pennsylvania House of Representatives passed Senate Bill 790, a bill that restores sanity to regulations for conventional oil and gas drillers in the Keystone State. For years PA’s small, independent conventional oil and gas drillers have objected to the one-size-fits-all regulations concocted by the Gov. Tom Wolf Administration that applies the same regulations
Read More...According to the International Energy Agency (IEA), the “lifeblood” of the global energy system is…investment. That is, money. Without investment, new sources of energy don’t appear. In 2016 IEA began to publish an annual report called World Energy Investment, in order to track spending on all forms of energy worldwide. Earlier this week IEA published
Read More...David Blackmon, a senior contributor to the Forbes magazine website and 39-year veteran working for various oil companies including Burlington Resources, Shell, and El Paso Corporation, is one of our favorite experts to read on matters relating to the oil patch. He is a strong O&G supporter. So when we spotted a recent Forbes article
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