Equinor and the Johan Sverdrup partnership consisting of Lundin Norway, Petoro, Aker BP and Total, said Oct. 5 production has started from the giant field in the North Sea. The startup comes more than two months ahead of and NOK 40 billion (US$4.38 billion) below the original estimates for development and operation. “Johan Sverdrup coming on
Read More...Tom ShepstoneNatural Gas NOW A “strategic ally” of Penn Future, supported by two private foundations, has launched a dirty political attack on six Southeast Pennsylvania lawmakers. Conservation Voters of PA just engaged in some very dirty politics, targeting six Republican lawmakers in Southeast PA, who they want to replace with Democrats, with a
Read More...Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … … Natural Gas NOW readers pass along a lot of stuff every week about natural gas, fractivist antics, emissions, renewables, and other news relating to energy. As usual, emphasis is added. Disingenuous Daylin Leach Proposes PA Fracking Ban I’ve met Senator Pennsylvania Senator Daylin Leach. Indeed, I have testified
Read More...Two prominent PET recycling companies are leaving the Association of Plastic Recyclers, arguing that the sector’s main trade group is not providing strong enough support on issues like recycled content legislation. Verdeco Recycling Inc. and CarbonLite Industries LLC — who lobbied heavily for a tough recycled content law that passed the California Legislature in September
Read More...After greatly expanding its clean room capacity for medical molding, Tessy Plastics Corp. could be adding even more, as the central New York custom molder is considering a $20 million investment. The Central New York Regional Economic Development Council has made the Tessy expansion project one of its 30 priority projects for the latest round
Read More...The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) released a bombshell of a report yesterday. Two reports, actually. USGS periodically updates its estimates of how much oil and natural gas is still not accessed but is “technically recoverable” in various shale plays. The last time USGS evaluated the Marcellus and Utica plays was in 2011, when the two
Read More...The National Association of Royalty Owners’ national convention has been under way this week in Pittsburgh, wrapping up today. One of the big topics at the event has been a push to get a “royalty check stub” bill passed in Pennsylvania. What’s that? It’s a bill that forces drillers to do a better, more detailed
Read More...Yesterday MDN told you that Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf has gone completely off his rocker with a power-grab to force PA into a regional alliance to tax natural gas-fired electric plants out of existence (see Gov. Wolf Goes Bonkers: EO Destroying Gas-Fired Elec, Carbon Tax). The reaction to his breathtaking power-grab has been swift–on both
Read More...It’s hard to keep track of the multiple lawsuits filed against every single new natural gas pipeline project in the Marcellus/Utica. But we try! Take the PennEast Pipeline, for example. PennEast is a $1 billion (or $1.2 billion, depending on the source) new greenfield pipeline project from Luzerne County, PA to Mercer County, NJ. PennEast
Read More...In October 2012, after a rigorous review by New York’s Dept. of Environmental Conservation (DEC), the Cricket Valley Energy Center in Dutchess County was accepted and approved. Construction of the 1,100 megawatt plant (to fed by PA Marcellus gas) began in July 2017 (see Second NY NatGas-Fired Elec Plant Breaks Ground in Hudson Valley) and
Read More...Aaron PriceDirector of Gas Odyssey and Silent No More … … Aaron Price reflects on Russian history applied to the Green New Deal, with a poem about a future Millennial War where Green ideology destroys civil society. Editor’s Note: Our friend Aaron Price, creator of Gas Odyssey, from Windsor, New York, has written another poem
Read More...Subsea 7 has been awarded a sizeable contract by Shell on Oct. 4 for the Pierce depressurization project, located approximately 160 miles offshore, east of Aberdeen. The contract scope involves the engineering, procurement, construction, transportation and installation of a 30 km gas export pipeline, a gas export riser and associated subsea infrastructure, for tie-ins at
Read More...PGS has disclosed that it is fully booked for seven vessels in Q4 2019, the company said on Oct. 4. PGS has now committed to a multi-client program in West Africa for the eighth active vessel. The program is expected to last more than 100 days and has strong industry funding. As a consequence PGS
Read More...An E&P unit of China’s state energy giant PetroChina has drilled into high flows of natural gas and condensate in an exploration well in northwestern region Xinjiang in what could be another major onshore gas find. In a social media posting Oct. 4, PetroChina’s Tarim unit said the Bozi-9 well in the Tarim Basin yielded
Read More...Louisville, Ky.-based Rev-A-Shelf LLC, the maker of residential storage products that is a division of custom injection molder Jones Plastic & Engineering Co. LLC, has acquired Sidelines Inc., a maker of metal closet organizers such as racks for ties, belts and plants, and pantry items like wire racks for wine and spices. Sidelines is based
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