Artist rendering – click for larger version A gas-fired power plant project near Chicago not previously on our radar screen has just begun construction. Jackson Generation, a subsidiary of J-POWER USA, has begun construction of a huge new 1,200 megawatt natural gas-fired combined cycle facility in Will County, Illinois. In something of a change from
Read More...Wes Edens The bloom is off the rose for us with regard to New Fortress Energy and their plans to build several LNG export facilities in northeastern Pennsylvania (see Big News! Marcellus LNG Export Plant Coming to Landlocked NEPA), and an LNG export shipping facility along the banks of the Delaware River (see DRBC Approves
Read More...Flaring is a temporary and necessary practice in oil and natural gas production that is used to ensure safety and mitigate emissions. Despite this, the practice has received negative media attention that is often lacking important context. Production companies strive to find innovative ways to reduce the need to flare, and the results of these efforts are clear: U.S.
Read More...Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … … Pipeline vandalism is both criminal and dangerous but apologists for it want us to believe it’s only protest and their right; that they’re victims. Shame! The EnviroPolitics blog included a headline yesterday that should infuriate anyone with the slightest respect for the law. “Protest a pipeline in these
Read More...Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … … Out-of-town protesters are the workhorses of the pipeline opposition. Financed by billionaires, they destroy and disrupt, leaving behind their dirt. A fellow by the name of Matt Cordio, who is President of Skills Pipeline, a technology talent-solutions company, and the founder of Startup Milwaukee, recently wrote an outstanding
Read More...Under a new lease agreement with Ohio Valley Energy, Mahoning County will now have rights to any Utica Shale deposits underneath county-owned land in Canfield, according to The Youngstown Vindicator. The original lease agreement for the county land, signed in 1984, will expire this month. The new agreement with Ohio Valley Energy extends the lease
Read More...It’s “Frack Pack” season again. A group of Democratic members of Congress are again introducing a collection of bills – which they’ve dubbed the “Frack Pack” — taking aim at oil and natural gas development, despite their past failures to overcome strong bipartisan opposition. Reps. Diana DeGette and Joe Neguse of Colorado, Matt Cartwright of
Read More...Reducing methane emissions has been a significant focus of both the U.S. oil and natural gas industry and environmentalists in recent years. Yet, the New Mexico Oil and Gas Association’s recently proposed Methane Mitigation Roadmap for the state’s industry to significantly reduce these emissions has been rejected by these same environmental groups. The recommendations within
Read More...Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … … Energy realities are the proper tools of rebuttal for cleaning up the green slime generated by crackpot and frackpot utopians with ideas that can’t work. Mark Mills is one of those experts at the Manhattan Institute who are so darned good at confront fantasy with facts. I previously
Read More...PUC Commissioner Arthur D’Andrea, speaking during last week’s Solar Power Texas Conference in Austin, believes Texas is moving in the right direction. The extreme hot summer days and the west Texas night winds allow solar and wind to work well together in the state. This post appeared first on Hart Energy.
Read More...Bill desRosiersExternal Affairs Coordinator, Cabot Oil & Gas … … The Shale Gas News, heard every Saturday at 10 AM on 94.3 FM, 1510 AM and Sundays on YesFM, talked about the PA Budget, LNG exports, impact fee distribution and much more last week. The Shale Gas News has grown again; welcome Gem 104 as our FOURTH
Read More...The number of rigs working onshore in the Lower 48 U.S. states dipped slightly last week, the fourth week in the last five where the working-rig total has fallen, data from Baker Hughes, a GE company, reveals. For the five-day period ended July 3 (two days shorter than normal due to the Fourth of July
Read More...The volume of working natural gas injected in the most recent weekly report by the Energy Information Administration was under 100 billion cubic feet for the second straight week, Kallanish Energy reports. For the week ended June 28, 89 Bcf of working gas was injected underground, bringing total working gas stored to 2.39 trillion cubic
Read More...Israel’s Delek Drilling said it has completed testing of a subsea natural gas pipeline to Egypt, but commercial sales by June 30 did not occur as originally projected, Kallanish Energy understands. Delek and its partner, the U.S.’s Noble Energy, signed a deal early in 2018 to export $15 billion in natural gas from Israeli offshore gas fields
Read More...UGI Corp recently announced its UGI Energy Services unit has plans to acquire Columbia Midstream Group from a TC Energy subsidiary for roughly $1.28 billion, according to Kallanish Energy. The deal will expand UGI’s midstream portfolio and provide an opportunity to invest an additional $300-$500 million over the next five years. The Columbia Midstream Group
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