Riverkeeper Sounds Alarm re New LNG Export Facility on Dela. River

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Riverkeeper Sounds Alarm re New LNG Export Facility on Dela. River

Maya van Rossum, who fancies herself as THE Delaware Riverkeeper, has her knickers in a twist. She’s just woken up to the fact that New Fortress Energy, which is building an LNG liquefying plant in northeastern Pennsylvania (see Big News! Marcellus LNG Export Plant Coming to Landlocked NEPA), will truck the LNG to a port

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Antero Resources Sues EnerQuest O&G Alleging Stolen Trade Secrets

Antero Resources sued EnerQuest Oil & Gas in a Texas court last year claiming EnerQuest had solicited and received trade secrets for a pair of landmen who live and work in Texas. A lower court dismissed the lawsuit based on a technicality (because the solicitation from EnerQuest came via email), claiming Texas does not have

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List of NatGas & NGL Pipeline Projects in Marcellus/Utica & Beyond

Our favorite government agency, the U.S. Energy Information Administration, collects data on all aspects of the U.S. energy industry. We spotted a newly updated spreadsheet issued by EIA that lists all “liquids” pipeline projects from 2010 to the present (and planned into the future). That caused us to look for another spreadsheet EIA produces (also

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KIITG Groups Target Louisiana Pipeline Infrastructure

Louisiana is a key player in producing and refining America’s oil and natural gas resources, and as such has been the target of “Keep It In the Ground” activism that has particularly focused on an important piece of critical infrastructure: pipelines. Recently, the national interest groups Center for Constitutional Rights and 350.org joined with at

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State Senators Bartolotta and Stefano Flip the Severance Tax Script

Jim WillisEditor & Publisher, Marcellus Drilling News (MDN) Pennsylvania State Senators Bartolotta and Stefano have taken on Governor Tom Wolf’s phony “Restore PA” severance tax gambit and turned it upside down. Last month, MDN told you Pennsylvania State Senators Camera Bartolotta (Washington County) and Pat Stefano (Fayette County) had beaten PA Gov. Tom Wolf at his own

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Deep Green Resistance: The Group That Wants to End Civilization

Robert Bradley, Jr.Founder and CEO of the Institute for Energy ResearchPrincipal, MasterResource: A Free-Market Energy Blog.. . .. Deep Green Resistance is too frequently dismissed as a fringe group not warranting our time but a close examination shows just the opposite. It’s dangerous. “When civilization ends, the living world will rejoice. We must be biophilic

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Look beyond the bottom line

Schaumburg, Ill. — Michael Plotzke is still learning after more than 30 years on the job at Plastipak Holdings Inc. “A big part of the CFO role is looking at infrastructure and systems,” Plotzke said in his keynote address at the 2019 Plastics News Financial Summit. “And you have to understand that technology is driven

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US Supreme Court Rejects Landowner Case Against Atlantic Sunrise

The U.S. Supreme Court has rejected hearing a case appealed from a lower court by a group of Lancaster County landowners who claim Williams and their Atlantic Sunrise Pipeline project abused eminent domain authority by building the pipeline before litigating (for years) how much money landowners should receive–landowners who refused to negotiate in good faith

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PA Republicans Push Alternative to Wolf’s Insane Severance Tax

In April MDN told you that Pennsylvania State Senators Camera Bartolotta (Washington County) and Pat Stefano (Fayette County) had beaten PA Gov. Tom Wolf at his own game by offering to pay for his so-called Restore PA plan, not by using a severance tax on shale production, but instead by allowing more shale drilling on

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Oil & Gas Industry has Already Spent $110M Fixing WV’s Bad Roads

In April, West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice, who is pro-coal (because much of his personal fortune comes from coal), took a swipe at shale drillers claiming shale is responsible for the poor condition of roadways in the Mountain State (see WV Gov. Justice Blames Shale for Bad Roads, Wants Higher Taxes). The shale industry begs

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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Continues Vendetta Against Range Resources

Pennsylvania Attorney General, Josh Shapiro, and the anti-drilling Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, continue their tag-team effort to criminalize and humiliate Range Resources. Shapiro, a sleazy politician, is investigating so-called environmental “crimes” committed by shale companies in a bid to boost his chances of being the next nominee to run for governor (see PA AG Investigates Shale Drillers

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Russia To Consider Extending Oil Output Cut With OPEC

NUR-SULTAN, Kazakhstan—Russia will carefully consider extending its oil output reduction agreement with OPEC and other producers, Russian First Deputy Prime Minister Anton Siluanov told Reuters on May 29. Moscow will weigh, in particular, the deal’s positive effect on oil prices against losses in market share to United States companies, he said. “There are many arguments

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First US “Small-Scale” LNG Facility Launches in Jacksonville, FL

JAX LNG (click for larger version) Something’s happening in Jacksonville, Florida with respect to LNG. It seems LNG plants of various types are popping up all over in Jacksonville! Nearly one year ago Eagle LNG opened its Maxville facility which liquefies natural gas into LNG for loading onto ships that use it as fuel (see

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Data makes a difference for Vital Plastics

Schaumburg, Ill. — Top management at Vital Plastics Inc. has used a data-driven approach to improve results at the custom injection molder. “When I first got here, it looked like an 18-year-old startup company,” Vital President George Hauser said May 21 at the 2019 Plastics News Financial Summit in Schaumburg. “There was a lack of

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