GM sets its price on carbon fiber truck box

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GM sets its price on carbon fiber truck box

May 20, 2019 Updated 5/20/2019 Email Print Michael Wayland Automotive News Steve Fecht for GMC A 2019 GMC Sierra Denali CarbonPro undergoes testing in a water spray booth. General Motors Co. has set its price on a breakthrough. The GMC Sierra with GM’s new carbon fiber pickup box will start at nearly $67,000, the company

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Rice Brothers Drop 2 Proposed Board Members from Rice Proxy Card

A few new developments to report in the war to control EQT. Late last week brothers Toby and Derek Rice, formerly of Rice Energy, announced they are trimming their slate of proposed EQT board members by two (from nine to seven). There was no explanation for why the two were dropped from consideration, other than

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Columbia Gas Sues Maryland to Allow Pipeline Under Potomac

Expressing dismay at needing to do so, Columbia Gas Transmission has been forced to haul the State of Maryland into court over the state’s refusal to grant an easement to drill a tiny 3.5-mile pipeline under the Potomac River. In January, Maryland’s emasculated RINO governor, Larry Hogan, along with two other state officials (both Democrats)

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Another Post-Gazette Smear Job: Drill Cuttings Pollute Rivers

Yet another attack on the shale industry by two Pittsburgh Post-Gazette “reporters” (propagandists) who have made a career of unfairly attacking shale–Don Hopey and David Templeton. This latest smear job makes the claim that leachate coming from a landfill piped to a municipal wastewater treatment facility is “contaminated” with all sorts of nasty chemicals (what

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Frack Water Co. Select Energy Services Considers Selling Itself

Select Energy Services is a billion dollar oilfield services company with three main divisions: water services, rentals, and wellsite completions. They operate in every major shale play in the country, including the Marcellus/Utica. In 2017 Select bought out and merged in Rockwater Energy Solutions, a leading provider of comprehensive water management solutions to the North

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Range Resources Promotes Dennis Degner to COO; CEO-in-Waiting?

Dennis Degner Over the years we’ve reported on the rising star of Dennis Degner at Range Resources. In 2016 Degner was named vice president for Range’s Southern Marcellus Shale Division (see Range’s Dennis Degner Named VP of Southern Marcellus Shale). In 2018 Degner was promoted again, to senior VP of operations, including responsibility for the

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Courts Clarify: Fractivists Aren’t Experts

Activists relying on Professor John Stolz to lend scientific credibility to their “Keep It In the Ground” stance on energy might want to review court records from a recently decided Pennsylvania appeals case that made it clear he’s no expert on natural gas development. Stolz, director of the Center for Environmental Research and Education at

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NAI Ohio River Corridor Names New Vice President of Operations Laurie Stanbro

Bolivar, Ohio. — Laurie Stanbro, Commercial Real Estate Specialist with NAI Ohio River Corridor has been promoted to Vice President of Operations. Stanbro joined NAI Ohio River Corridor in 2017. “Over the past 2 years, Laurie has played an instrumental role in developing and implementing strategies to improve our commercial real estate operational areas,” says

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Shale Magazine: How Shale is Reviving Rural America

Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. …. ….  Shale Magazine just ran a story from yours truly about how shale is reviving Rural America; how the shale revolution is yielding real change for real people. Have you checked out the Shale Magazine? If you haven’t yet, do so. It’s an excellent online journal chronicling the continuously

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The Permian Water Management Future: Consolidated, Efficient Systems

When it comes to examining the state of water management in the Permian Basin, Kelly Bennett, co-founder and president of B3 Insight, says it all comes down to a fundamental question: what is scale in the industry, especially one as capital intensive, incredibly fragmented and driven by the self-interests of operators? There are several headwinds

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Shale Gas News – May 18, 2019

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 Cabot Oil & Gas, jobs, Pin Oak Energy and much more last week. The Shale Gas News has grown again; welcome Gem 104 as our FOURTH

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Crude prices slip Friday, post weekly gains

Crude oil prices slipped Friday, but West Texas Intermediate and Brent both posted a weekly gain on rising concerns over more Middle East supply disruptions due to U.S.-Iran political tension, Kallanish Energy reports. A deputy head of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said Friday Iran could “easily” hit U.S. warships in the Persian Gulf, the latest rhetoric

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Rice Team revises EQT board slate to 7 from 9

Toby Z. Rice and Derek A. Rice, EQT shareholders trying to wrest control from the executives and board of the U.S.’s largest natural gas producer, said last week they’re reducing the size of their slate of nominees for the EQT board to seven from nine, Kallanish Energy reports. The change was motivated by EQT’s announcement

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Working-rig count drops for 6th straight week

The number of rigs working onshore in the Lower 48 U.S. states last week fell for the sixth consecutive week, according to data compliled by oilfield services firm Baker Hughes, a GE company. For the week ended May 17, 954 rigs were working in the Lower 48, down a lone rig from the previous week,

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