Last August the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) issued a decision overruling the New York Dept. of Environmental Conservation (DEC) to allow National Fuel Gas Company’s Northern Access Pipeline project to proceed (see Big News: FERC Overrules NY DEC to Approve Northern Access Pipe). The DEC subsequently asked FERC to reconsider the decision. FERC did,
Read More...While polylactide (PLA) polymers, a bio-based and degradable thermoplastic, have been used for more than a decade as a diverter to enhance fracture stimulation, it has only been in the last few years that materials science and best practices have begun to reduce the guesswork in diverter application. It is now possible to achieve predictable oil and gas production enhancements in well
Read More...DUBAI—Saudi Energy Minister Khalid al-Falih said consensus was emerging among the OPEC+ group of oil producers to continue working towards oil market stability in the second half of the year, the Saudi-owned Arab News newspaper reported on Monday. Oil prices in May sustained their worst monthly fall in six months on worries that trade disputes
Read More...Prior to 1937, he said gas leak detection generally relied on visual vegetation surveys looking for dead vegetation caused by venting leaks from both natural gas and manufactured gas (coal gasification). Federal regulations were minimal until Congress passed the Natural Gas Pipeline Safety Act of 1968. Leak detection is a requirement under the DOT Federal
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 New York City blackouts, fossil fuels, an American success story and much more last week. The Shale Gas News has grown again; welcome Gem 104 as
Read More...The volume of working gas injected into underground storage in the most recent Energy Information Administration survey topped 100 billion cubic feet for the third consecutive week. At May 24, 1.87 trillion cubic feet (Tcf) of working gas was stored, up 114 Bcf from the week-earlier total of 1.75 Tcf, Kallanish Energy calculates. The latest
Read More...Canadian Natural Resources last week evacuated its Pelican Lake and Woodenhouse operations in northern Alberta, the first major shut-in of oil production triggered by wildfires in 2019, Kallanish Energy reports. The producer removed all 240 people working at the two sites, stopping a combined 65,000 barrels per day of heavy crude production, according to a statement
Read More...Billionaire activist investor Carl Icahn last week filed a lawsuit against Occidental Petroleum, looking for board seats and eventually a sale of the company, Kallanish Energy learns. Icahn said in the lawsuit filed in Delaware Chancery Court he’s built a $1.6 billion stake in Houston-based Occidental, and is upset by its decision to acquire Anadarko
Read More...The Ohio Department of Natural Resources approved 17 permits for wells in Ohio’s Utica Shale during the week ended May 25, according to The Youngstown Business Journal. The permit breakdown is as follows: Ascent Resources Utica LLC received eight permits for six wells in Jefferson County and two in Belmont County, Rice Drilling LLC received
Read More...MEXICO CITY—Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador reiterated on June 2 the need for oil independence as his government said it would tender six construction contracts in June for a planned oil refinery in the southern state of Tabasco. Tensions between Mexico and the U.S. have been running high in recent days after President Donald
Read More...CAIRO—Bahrain is to allow foreign companies to own 100% of oil and natural gas extraction projects in the Gulf state, under an order issued by Prime Minister Sheikh Khalifa bin Salman al Khalifa on June 2, Bahrain News Agency reported. To be eligible, the foreign parent company must have signed, or be in the final
Read More...JERUSALEM–Israel’s Delek Drilling hopes to begin commercial sales of natural gas to Egypt by the end of the month, a senior company executive said on June 2. Delek Drilling and its partner Noble Energy signed a landmark deal early last year to export $15 billion in natural gas from Israeli offshore fields Tamar and Leviathan
Read More...NAI Ohio River Corridor has expanded their team and commercial real estate services with the addition of Renay Sanders, commercial specialist and the promotion of Laurie Stanbro to vice president of Brokerage Operations. “Since locating our office to Tuscarawas County and our continued focus on the emerging petrochemical and plastics industries, we realized the need
Read More...“The recent announcement in the Shale Directories newsletter is really good news for the Ohio Valley,” stated Bryce Custer. MPLX announced it is moving forward with its underground storage facility in Hopedale, Ohio and it could be operation by 2021. Millions of dollars will be spent building out this facility. When this development is combined
Read More...Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … … NY Post readers were treated to the one of the best editorials it has yet to write on the subject of energy. It demolishes Cuomo’s renewables delusion. The NY Post has neatly summarized the immense problems with Andrew Cuomo’s renewables delusion. Indeed, I have to wonder if some
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