The United States Geological Survey estimates the Marcellus Shale and Point Pleasant-Utica Shale formations of the Appalachian Basin contain around 214 trillion cubic feet of undiscovered, technically recoverable continuous resources of natural gas. “Watching our estimates for the Marcellus rise from 2 trillion to 84 trillion to 97 trillion in under 20 years demonstrates the effects
Read More...... … … The U.S. natural gas supply has grown by about 20% in just two years, according to the latest analysis of reserves, enough to supply us for 100+ years. The Potential Gas Committee has announced the amount of producible natural gas in the United States, our natural gas supply, has increased by about
Read More...PVC pipe makers Sanderson Pipe Corp., based in Clarksville, Tenn., and Texas United Pipe Inc., of Houston will merge by the end of year after operating separately under common ownership since May 1. The pending deal between the regional manufacturers calls for Texas United Pipe to become a wholly owned subsidiary of Sanderson Pipe, which
Read More...The Italian manufacturer of flame retardants and performance additives Italmatch Chemicals has invested in U.S.-based FRX Polymers Inc., a manufacturer of Nofia-branded polymeric phosphorus-based flame retardants. With the unspecified investment announced Oct. 2, Italmatch has joined with previous major investors in FRX, including: Citic Capital, Evonik Venture Capital, Triton Systems, Capricorn Venture Partners, Israel Cleantech,
Read More...TPC Wire & Cable Corp. in Macedonia this week acquired two companies: Cicoil LLC in Valencia, Calif., and Pittsburgh Wire and Cable Inc. in Pittsburgh, Pa. The company, which makes wires and cables insulated in thermoset and thermoplastic materials, announced the acquisitions in a set of news releases. Terms of the deals are not being
Read More...On August 1, Enbridge’s Texas Eastern Pipeline Company (TETCO) pipeline exploded in Lincoln County, Kentucky–killing one and sending six to the hospital (see TETCO Pipe Explodes in Kentucky Killing 1; Southbound M-U Gas Stops). Since that time one of the three TETCO pipes in the area has returned to service. The federal Pipeline and Hazardous
Read More...Really? Is this what it’s now come to? Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro is so desperate to make a criminal case against someone, anyone, in the shale industry, he’s even going after state employees–workers at the PA Dept. of Environmental Protection (DEP). In a bid to raise his visibility among state voters (so he can
Read More...PA Gov. Tom Wolf The worst Pennsylvania governor in our lifetime continues to wreck the PA economy. Tom Wolf previously made noise about dooming PA’s economy by forcing the state to adopt a so-called “cap-and-trade” plan for carbon dioxide–the stuff every living animal, including humans, breathes out with every breath (see PA Gov. Wolf, Dem
Read More...Ohio’s major newspapers continue to push back against phony commercials being run by FirstEnergy in a desperate attempt to block a referendum to overturn House Bill (HB) 6 (see FirstEnergy Runs Attack Ad, Claims China Controls OH NatGas Plants). HB 6, a corporate welfare bill, was recently passed to prop up two FirstEnergy bankrupt nuclear
Read More...Yesterday the Consumer Energy Alliance (CEA) released its West Virginia Emissions Brief (full copy below) which shows significant emissions reductions and environmental improvements made across the state. This brief further demonstrates that states can reap the rewards of energy production while practicing sound environmental stewardship simultaneously. Although West Virginia is now the seventh-largest natural gas
Read More...Rick HidukManaging Editor of EndlessMtnLifestyles.com … … Lackawanna College is creating sky-high opportunity in the shale region by training professionals for the industry and it has responded through a clay shoot. Students and administrators from the Lackawanna College School of Petroleum & Natural Gas completed their second full round as coordinators and managers of the
Read More...Tom ShepstoneNatural Gas NOW Ruby Montoya and Jessica Reznicek have been indicted by a Federal Grand Jury for Dakota Access Pipeline vandalism. It’s about time the Fed gloves came off. Two years ago I wrote about these two Dakota Access Pipeline vandals, noting they were stooges for a radical group known as Rising
Read More...Rick HidukManaging Editor of EndlessMtnLifestyles.com … … Welding is a special talent that can and is being taught at the Susquehanna County Career and Technology Center. Students there are welding together futures. Ray Ingaglio, the chief welding instructor at Susquehanna County Career and Technology Center (SCCTC), had left teaching and started his own welding business.
Read More...Robert P. MurphySenior Economist, Institute for Energy ResearchPrincipal, Consulting by RPM … … Capitalism, and revulsion to it, is at the heart of the opposition to oil and gas development by today’s global warmists and fractivists. They’re wrong. Presumably bolstered by the fiery claims of Greta Thunberg and the general theme of Climate Week, people
Read More...NextEra Energy Partners has agreed to buy Meade Pipeline Co. in a deal valued at about $1.37 billion, according to Bloomberg. Meade owns a 39.2% interest in the Central Penn Line, a 185-mile pipeline that connects the Marcellus Shale in Pennsylvania to the mid-Atlantic and southeastern U.S. The line has the capacity to deliver 1.7
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