Industry News

Offshore Driller Noble Corp. to Emerge from Chapter 11 Bankruptcy

Noble Holding Corp. revealed on Nov. 23 that the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas has issued an order approving the company’s Joint Plan of Reorganization. The company is working towards emergence as soon as possible upon receipt of certain regulatory approvals which could be received late this year or early 2021. RELATED:

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Mercury Plastics adds East Coast site with Maryland Thermoform acquisition

Chicago-based Mercury Plastics Inc., a third-generation, family-owned thermoformer, is expanding to the East Coast via acquisition. Mercury has purchased the assets of Maryland Thermoform Corp., a Baltimore-based company that focuses on thermoforming thin-gauge blisters and also has a growing fabrication department. Mercury bought MTC from President Jim Hall and CEO Scott Macdonald. Terms were not

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IndustryVoice: RigER presents Mobile Suite for Field Operations

Go Mobile Enable your team to work anywhere, anytime – even offline. From sales quotes to field operations and even Purchasing Requests, RigER®️ has a mobile app to fit your team and budget. RigER®️ mobile apps are an extension of the RigER®️ ERP platform that allow your team members to communicate with each other, your office

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Total Selects Nutanix to Power Digital Transformation

Nutanix, a leader in hybrid and multicloud computing, said Nov. 24 that Total has implemented Nutanix solutions, including Nutanix’s hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) software, AHV, Files, Flow, Prism, and Xi Frame to develop a unified IT environment supporting the majority of their global operations. Total selected Nutanix to deliver the reliability and performance its users expect,

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Core Molding Technologies closing Ohio composites plant

Core Molding Technologies Inc. is closing a composites plant in Batavia, Ohio, in a move that will eliminate 99 jobs. Officials with Core in Columbus, Ohio, said in a Nov. 19 Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act filing with the state that the plant is being closed because of changes in the business resulting from

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Canadian Oil Output Seen Expanding Until 2039, Delaying Net-zero Goal

Canadian oil production will expand for nearly two more decades, slowing the country’s progress toward achieving Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s goal of net-zero emissions by 2050, the Canada Energy Regulator (CER) forecast on Nov. 24. Fossil fuels will make up more than 60% of Canada’s fuel mix in 2050, even though domestic consumption likely peaked

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Nominations open for 2021 Rising Stars

Plastics News will recognize the Rising Stars of our industry in our Feb. 8, 2021, issue. This will mark the eighth year in a row that we’re featuring talented young people — ages 35 and under — on the path to becoming plastics industry leaders, or who are already there. The first few years that

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Weekly Shale Drilling Permits for PA, OH, WV: Nov. 16-20

Last week Pennsylvania issued 11 new shale well drilling permits, all but one of them in the northeastern (dry gas) part of the state. Ohio issued one new permit, and West Virginia issued 2 new shale well permits.This post appeared first on Marcellus Drilling News.

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Williams Deal with Bankrupt Chesapeake to Flow More Marcellus Gas

Pipeline giant Williams has cut a deal outside of bankruptcy court with Chesapeake Energy. The deal means Williams will continue to gather Chesapeake’s production in the Marcellus, Eagle Ford, and Midcontinent shale regions. Chessy has also committed to buying up to 150 million cubic feet per day (MMcf/d) of capacity on Williams’ new Transco Regional

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Maryland Congressman Demands FERC Answers re MVP, ACP

Far-left Congressman Jamie Raskin Leftist Democrat Congressman Jamie Raskin, from Maryland, is asking the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to provide reams of documents on how it handles landowner complaints about natural gas pipelines crossing their land. Raskin is Chairman of the House Oversight and Reform Subcommittee on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties. He’s got

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LANL Invents Clever Way to Sniff Out Fugitive Methane Leaks

fugitive Researchers with the Dept. of Energy’s (DOE) Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) in New Mexico continue to make big oil and gas industry breakthroughs. Two weeks ago we told you about LANL’s breakthrough discovery about pressures used when fracking in the Marcellus (see DOE Marcellus Research Finds High Frack Pressure Keeps Gas Trapped). A

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Some in Oil & Gas Industry Look Forward to a Biden Presidency

Every now and again we hear from MDN readers who mildly (or strongly) disagree with our politics and view of the leftwing Democrat Party and the frail, mentally-challenged Joe Biden (who won’t last two years in office before he’s pushed out for medical and/or mental reasons). They tell us a Biden presidency isn’t the end

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Oil & Gas Experts Give Realistic Assessment of Biden Impact

“OK Jim, what’s *really* going to happen to the oil and gas industry under a Joe Biden presidency? None of your apocalyptic B.S. please.” We’ve heard that sentiment/question expressed on occasion by MDN subscribers. Last week the Dallas Federal Reserve Bank and the Kansas City Reserve Bank hosted a virtual conference titled, “Energy and the

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Other Stories of Interest: Tue, Nov 24, 2020

MARCELLUS/UTICA REGION: DRBC lawsuit update: still waiting on the federal court; Canton Chamber moves Utica Downstream event to January as COVID-19 cases spike; Renewables, GOP supermajority loom large over energy and environmental groups’ 2021 state legislative priorities; OTHER U.S. REGIONS: SDG&E to test blending hydrogen with natural gas supply; NATIONAL: Biden names John Kerry as

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Yergin and ‘The New Map: Energy, Climate, and the Clash of Nations’

Robert Bradley, Jr.Founder and CEO of the Institute for Energy ResearchPrincipal, MasterResource: A Free-Market Energy Blog.. .… … [Editor’s Note: Daniel Yergin has written another energy tome and Bob Bradley reviews it with a critical eye, finding it quite good as a whole.] Daniel Yergin’s tomes are fun reading and great cliff notes to the

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