A major operator was working to develop multiple wells in the Delaware Basin running a conventional Class H tail slurry at 15.6 ppg. The slurry was reaching 500 psi in 10-13 hours, causing a 2-3 hour wait per intermediate casing job prior to shoe drill-out. At a spread rate of $3,200 per hour, the time
Read More...Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … … A Lake Erie wind project demonstrates the sheer futility of so much of green political correctness as time and money are wasted on a really dumb project. Our friends at Master Resource posted an interesting article the other day about a project with a weird name I’d never
Read More...HOUSTON–The planned closing of an oil refinery in Philadelphia damaged by a massive fire last month will reverse nearly two years of capacity gains at U.S. refineries, according to a Reuters analysis of government data. Philadelphia Energy Solutions has said it will shut its 335,000 barrels per day (bbl/d) refinery this summer after a June
Read More...Democratic Governor Tom Wolf, now in his second and final term, wants to impose a severance tax on natural gas producers to subsidize “Restore Pennsylvania.” The plan has three main components: remove blight—which is found in most communities—provide flood mitigation and improve broadband access throughout the state. The initial plan, which has just been introduced
Read More...Jim WillisEditor & Publisher, Marcellus Drilling News (MDN) Pipelines supporters from affected North Carolina communities have had enough of environmental activists and political elites standing in their way. Atlantic Coast Pipeline (ACP), a $7 billion, 600-mile pipeline that will stretch from West Virginia into North Carolina, is facing an existential threat by leftist environmentalists. The project is
Read More...Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … … Batteries not included applies not to only the new toy you bought but also to the calculated levelized cost of renewables. The true cost is astronomical. A fascinating article by Roger Andrews at Energy Matters gets into a matter of the highest importance when it comes to renewables.
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. Oreos Deal Anything But Black and White The manufacturer of Oreos says it’s cut a deal to buy
Read More...Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … … Delaware PovertyKeeper attempts to tie up the shale gas industry in litigation continue apace, but also continuing are losses in Commonwealth Court. Remember Middlesex Township, Butler County, where the Delaware PovertyKeeper, ignoring its charter, hopped 200+ miles beyond the Delaware to fight natural gas development in Western Pennsylvania?
Read More...MDN rarely takes a day off. Today, July 5th, is one of those days. Programming note: MDN will publish next Monday through Wednesday (July 8-10), but will take off next Thursday and Friday (July 11 -12). However, given EQT’s annual meeting next Wednesday, July 10, we will release a special update on Thursday, July 11, to
Read More...Events related (or of interest) to the Marcellus, Utica and other Appalachian shales happening in the next 90 or so days. Send your calendar items (listed for free!) to: jim (at) marcellusdrilling.com. New York Ohio Pennsylvania West Virginia Webcasts Elsewhere Share this: This post appeared first on Marcellus Drilling News.
Read More...Richard DowneyUnatego Area Landowners Association Climateers, Richard Downey says, are not being truthful when they pretend anything other than natural gas is going to address what they say needs to happen. Adrian Kuzminski’s June 13/14 column “If Facts Can’t Defuse Deniers, What Can?” opens with the passage from the New Testament where Pontius Pilate asks
Read More...Impact fees for payments for natural gas drilling in Pennsylvania will reach a record amount this year, according to the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission. The annual fee collected for natural gas wells tapping the Marcellus and Utica shales totaled $243 million for 2018, plus $8.9 million in back fees from companies that had withheld payments
Read More...Experimental development has helped Encana increase its productivity in the Permian, contrary to WSJ narrative The story of the Permian Basin in West Texas and Southeast New Mexico in recent years is nothing short of incredible. We’ve known for a century that there’s good rock there, but did anyone ten years ago – or even
Read More...Munich-based KraussMaffei Group is repositioning its branding — now calling all business divisions and its previous brands of KraussMaffei Berstorff and Netstal under a single unified brand of KraussMaffei. All subsidiaries and locations will operate under the KraussMaffei name from now on, officials of the machinery manufacturer said July 3. That means Netststal-Maschinen AG, the
Read More...The United States has long been a top global producer of natural gas, but the shale revolution has solidified U.S. energy dominance in recent years. And, as EID’s latest video shows, it’s being led by growth in the Appalachian and Permian basins. [embedded content] Booming shale production in the Permian and Appalachian Basins has ushered
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