Jackson, N.H. — Dick Devellian, who co-founded hot runner supplier Kona Corp. in 1978, died May 27 when he was struck from behind by a motor vehicle as he was riding a bicycle. He was 83. Devellian retired in 1991 and moved to Jackson after selling Kona to Berwind Group. The Kona nozzle that he
Read More...So far, 2020 has been a difficult year in many ways. With that in mind, let’s thank materials maker Ampacet for taking us to a world of Silky Bliss. Silky Bliss is the name of a new line of masterbatch concentrates being made by Tarrytown, N.Y.-based Ampacet. In a news release, officials said that the
Read More...Braven Environmental LLC plans to invest nearly $32 million in a pyrolysis plant in Virginia to turn waste plastics into fuels or new plastics, Gov. Ralph Northam’s office announced June 2. Braven plans to build the facility in Cumberland County, about 50 miles west of Richmond. A news release from Northam’s office said the $31.7
Read More...U.S. energy firms cut the number of oil and natural gas rigs operating to a record low for a fifth week in a row even as some producers begin to reverse cuts as prices recover from historic lows caused by a slump in fuel demand amid coronavirus lockdowns. The U.S. oil and gas rig count,
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Read More...Glenville, W.Va.-based pipe extruder Flying W Plastics Inc., is considering Jacksonville, Fla., for the site of its second manufacturing plant and an upcoming vote on a $100,000 infrastructure grant could be the deciding factor. Founded in 1984, the privately held company plans to invest $8 million into an existing industrial facility and hire 28 people
Read More...Shell Chemical says the development of a major plastics and petrochemicals complex under construction near Pittsburgh remains “important” to its overall global effort, despite a report that questioned its viability. In an email to Plastics News, Michael Marr, Shell business integration lead, responded by saying that Shell’s chemicals business at Monaca, Pa., “enjoys strong fundamentals”
Read More...This week, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced it would update Section 401 of the Clean Water Act, helping to accelerate and promote the construction of critical infrastructure projects. Across the country, New York and other states have misused Section 401 of the Clean Water Act as a means to block and delay oil and
Read More...The U.S. onshore rig count continues to collapse. Over the past week another 22 rigs disappeared from the count, mainly located in oil plays (like the Permian). Yet the news continues to be spun as “the bottom appears closer” when the decrease will stop. Really? We don’t see it! Last week the Marcellus (dry gas
Read More...One of our favorite M-U reporters, Paul Gough of the Pittsburgh Business Times, went in search of news about Appalachian shale drilling and its future. He found some rays of light. Gough talked with several of our favorite M-U people–CNX CEO Nick DeIuliis, Deep Well Services CEO Mark Marmo, and Range Resources COO Dennis Degner.
Read More...MDN was launched in January 2009, during the heyday of leasing for shale drilling in the Marcellus/Utica region. One of our early focuses was to highlight lease deals by landowner coalitions. (Indeed, it was one such deal, in Deposit, NY, that inspired Jim Willis to begin writing MDN.) These days you don’t read or hear
Read More...Although many landowners in the Marcellus/Utica (at lease those who are interested) have already signed leases to allow shale drilling on and under their property, not all have. And sometimes leases expire with no drilling. Plus, not all landowners have leases that allow pipelines and other development (like solar projects). The Ohio State University Extension
Read More...Massachusetts produces most (perhaps all) of its electricity from natural gas-fired power plants and some 3.5 million people in the state use it to heat their homes. And yet MA Attorney General Maura Healey (radical leftist Democrat), in what can only be described as a psychotic break, has demanded the state Dept. of Public Utilities
Read More...Roger CaiazzaIndependent Researcher and Publisher,Pragmatic Environmentalist of New York … [Editor Comment: Something truly amazing has been revealed about Indian Point; the industrial sized renewable farms that are to replace it aren’t even making power for us!] In April 2017 Governor Cuomo announced the closure of the Indian Point Energy Center by April 2021 and last week
Read More...George StarkDirector, External AffairsCabot Oil & Gas George Stark discusses a Think About Energy event he moderated and the perspectives of the two state senators and the business leader he interviewed. Two Pennsylvania state senators and the president of the Pennsylvania Chamber of Business and Industry (PCBI) met virtually on May 28 to
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