This article is provided FREE for Google searchers. In order to access all content on Marcellus Drilling News, please visit our Subscribe page. Big Green groups continue to sue pipeline companies and their projects in an attempt to block any new pipeline anywhere from getting built–period. One of their favored angles of attack is to
Read More...In the era of shale, operators working international opportunities frequently cast their eyes on the U.S. for expertise and analogs. The world’s top oil producers—ExxonMobil Corp., Chevron Corp., Royal Dutch Shell, BP Plc, Total SA, among others—have risen in the ranks of shale producers in recent years. Notably, large- and medium-sized independents remain dominant within
Read More...The Haynesville’s been keeping some secrets, everyone. It’s producing as much as ever—more than 10 billion cubic feet a day (Bcf/d). And there are about as many rigs drilling it as the Marcellus. Yes, the Marcellus. Just 24 or so months ago, it remained stuck on a 6-Bcf/d axis after getting tangled in the spring
Read More...In the 1600s, the Spanish conquistadors who first reached Guyana were apparently so unimpressed by its mineral wealth that they simply moved on. As it turns out, the Spanish explorers were just too early—by about 500 years. Guyana, a nation of 740,000 people in a country the size of Idaho, is used to being snubbed.
Read More...The oilfield service sector is in dire straits, and it’s going to take a fundamental change in its relationship with the E&P sector for that to change. And E&Ps better get on board with effecting that change or learn to drill and frack a well themselves. That essentially was the message of a discussion panel
Read More...In 1919, Oklahoma had been a state for only 12 years, and Erle P. Halliburton had just established his first oilfield service company. That spring, a young man named Leon Everette English walked across the stage at the University of Oklahoma’s commencement ceremony, making history as the first person in the U.S. to earn a
Read More...Kelsey MulacCabot Oil & GasExternal Affairs, Pittsburgh … … A recent “Think About Energy” briefing in Carlisle, Pennsylvania brought home the reality of what the gas revolution has brought us via innovation and markets. The “Think About Energy Briefing” series made a stop in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, on Thursday, April 24. With Pennsylvania natural gas production topping 6
Read More...United Conservative Party leader Jason Kenney was sworn in Tuesday as the 18th premier of Canada’s largest crude-producing province, Alberta, and named a cabinet he says will go to bat for the energy sector, Kallanish Energy reports. Kenney, a former conservative federal cabinet minister, won the election in a landslide victory against Rachel Notley’s New
Read More...A battle between Chevron and Occidental Petroleum, which now includes billionaire investor extraordinaire Warren Buffett, to take control of U.S. independent producer Anadarko Petroleum, is fueling speculation about more deals to come. But oil supermajor BP Plc CEO Bob Dudley Tuesday said his employer will not get involved. BP acquired BHP Billiton’s U.S. shale assets for
Read More...Rangeland Energy III’s Rangeland Midstream Canada unit Tuesday announced plans to design, construct and operate new crude oil and condensate pipelines in the Marten Hills region of north central Alberta, Kallanish Energy reports. The Marten Hills Pipeline System will extend roughly 52.8 miles and include crude oil and condensate pipelines and related facilities. The system
Read More...Experts believe an increased availability of ethane storage facilities in eastern Ohio, southwestern Pennsylvania and northern West Virginia will attract petrochemical plants that turn ethane into raw plastic, according to the Associated Press. Incidentally, plans are underway to create two underground facilities to store ethane in the Appalachian Basin. Energy Storage Ventures is awaiting approval
Read More...More than $200 billion is expected to be invested in the U.S. petrochemical sector as the region becomes an energy exporter, and nearly half of the new projects announced since 2010 are in Texas, an industry trade association told Petrochemical Update. × The American Chemistry Council’s (ACC) running tab of 334 announced projects represents a
Read More...Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. …. …. A troubling pattern of donations to Sen. Andy Dinniman campaigns raises question of whose special interests he’s representing against Mariner East pipelines. Pennsylvania Senator “Absent” Andy Dinniman is a caricature of the classic politician who pompously talks about the people’s interests. But, is that who he’s really representing
Read More...April 30, 2019 Updated 4/30/2019 Email Print Michael Wayland Automotive News General Motors Co. General Motors Co. officials said the company expects to move carbon fiber use beyond the new CarbonPro box on the GMC Denali. Fort Wayne, Ind. — General Motors Co.’s new carbon fiber pickup box for the GMC Sierra is the tip
Read More...April 30, 2019 Updated 4/30/2019 Email Print Agilyx LLC and Americas Styrenics LLC are creating a joint venture to recycle post-consumer polystyrene into new products. The new operation, called Regenyx LLC, aims to use Agilyx’s chemical recycling approach to convert used PS into styrene monomer. Americas Styrenics, which makes both polystyrene and styrene, will work
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