As U.S. plastics exports grow, suppliers are looking to diversify supply chain solutions and mitigate risk by creating options outside of Texas, where most of the product is made. × A&R Logistics, a supply-chain-service provider for North American chemicals, announced on Oct. 17 the latest spending to add resin export capacity to the East Coast
Read More...E. Niles Kenyon, who led auxiliary equipment maker Conair Group from 1986-2004, died Sept. 12 in Vero Beach, Fla., surrounded by his family. Kenyon was a sales executive in the titanium industry before working in plastics. He was Conair’s president and chief operating officer. He was 78 and had been battling prostate cancer. Kenyon was
Read More...Eastman Chemical Co. is joining with Circular Polymers LLC as a feedstock source for its new chemical recycling facility in Tennessee. Circular Polymers will direct reclaimed PET carpet fiber from its California recycling facility to Eastman’s recently commercialized chemical recycling facility in Kingsport, Tenn. Circular Polymers of Lincoln, Calif., separates PET fiber from carpet backing,
Read More...Yesterday MDN reported on Dominion Energy’s third quarter update from last Friday, a session in which CEO Tom Farrell commented the company’s commitment to building the Atlantic Coast Pipeline (ACP) is “unwavering” (see Dominion Energy 3Q – Commitment to Atlantic Coast Pipe “Unwavering”). Last Thursday a pair of ACP representatives gave an update to Upshur
Read More...For some time we have criticized the 100 year-old Jones Act that prevents LNG carriers built and/or crewed by other counties from transporting LNG from one U.S. port to another U.S. port (see Puerto Rico Imports Russian LNG Thanks to U.S. Jones Act). Among the statements we’ve made is that the Jones Act prevents all
Read More...Dominion Energy has formed a joint venture partnership with Interstate Gas Supply to form Wrangler Retail Gas Holdings. Dominion will, over the next three years, contribute all of its non-regulated retail energy marketing operations to Wrangler under the terms of the agreement. Wranger will operate a non-regulated natural gas retail energy marketing business.This post appeared
Read More...Activists from the Providence Democratic Socialists of America and the George Wiley Center protested Nov. 2 in front of Gov. Gina Raimondo’s house. (Credit: Tim Faulkner/ecoRI News) Socialism is evil. It’s the same root political philosophy as Communism, leading to a society in which individual freedoms are stripped away–the very freedoms purchased at a high
Read More...click for larger version A few weeks ago MDN said the Marcellus/Utica produces more than twice as much natural gas as the Permian–33.3 Bcf/d in November for the M-U versus 16 Bcf/d for the Permian (see EIA Oct ’19 Drilling Report: Permian Gas Grows More than M-U). The Permian, an oil play, is a serious
Read More...... … … Shocker! Getting rid of an old wind turbine is proving to be quite an issue and a high expense, showing renewables are neither free nor especially green. In Minnesota, Xcel Energy estimates conservatively that it will cost $532,000 (in 2019 dollars) to decommission each of its wind turbines—a total cost of $71 million to decommission the 134
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 our Democrats spark a fracking boom, Nord Stream 2, natural gas exports and much more last week. The Shale Gas News has grown again; welcome Gem
Read More...Jim WillisEditor & Publisher, Marcellus Drilling News (MDN) Moxie Energy CEO, Aaron Samson, an innovator, a natural gas leader and a communitarian and marvelous example of human kindness, dies in a tragic accident. This one really hurts. A true titan in our industry and all-around superb individual, Aaron T. Samson, died on Oct. 20 at age 59
Read More...Paul DriessenCommittee For A Constructive Tomorrow …. …. Offshore wind is a major scam. It makes no economic sense whatsoever, requires massive support infrastructure, disturbs oceans and accomplishes little. Can anti-fossil fuel policies based on climate crisis alarmism possibly get any more insane than this? In what might be described as a pre-Halloween trick of
Read More...EQT Corp. reduced its capital budget by $115 million for 2019 and plans to trim $525 million from its budget in 2020, according to the Pittsburgh Business Times. In its third quarter report, the first under the guidance of its new management team led by Toby Rice, EQT said it spent $475 million on capital,
Read More...Robert Bradley, Jr.Founder and CEO of the Institute for Energy ResearchPrincipal, MasterResource: A Free-Market Energy Blog.. . .. Neo-Malthusians have wrecked havoc with environmental and energy policies. The failure of their outrageous predictions to come true has only emboldened them. Are free-market optimists the dumb ones who jump off tall buildings and report that everything
Read More...On Monday morning, a third sinkhole developed along the construction route of the Mariner East pipeline in Sleighton Park in Middletown township, Pa, according to the Daily Local News. The sinkhole was discovered at approximately 2:30 a.m. by Sunoco in a spot adjacent to the location the first sinkhole, which was reported on Sept. 13.
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