In the second quarter of 2019, oil production in Ohio’s Utica Shale jumped 9.5%, according to data released by the Ohio Department of Natural Resources on Tuesday. Oil production totaled 5,813,755 barrels in the second quarter, which is an increase over the 4,488,104 barrels during the same period a year ago, according to Kallanish Energy.
Read More...Now the City of Buffalo is suffering from Cuomo’s anti-fossil fuel fervor, as a recent Vanity Fair article highlights a $750 million state subsidy Elon Musk’s SolarCity received to open a plant there. And state taxpayers are paying the price. “For $750 million, we’re getting jobs that pay $2 an hour more than Aldi’s,” the story quotes
Read More...The overwhelming majority of methane found in groundwater samples near natural gas and oil drilling sites in Pennsylvania is naturally occurring, and not related to fracking, according to a new study from Penn State University. The research, which was funded by the National Science Foundation and U.S. Geological Survey, found 99.92 percent of the 20,751 water
Read More...Window and door maker Deceuninck North America LLC is searching for new profiles for employees, and about a dozen new hires have signed up through Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. The Monroe, Ohio-based company — part of a Belgian window and door global supplier — is offering college students paid tuition and paychecks for at
Read More...Oil and gas explorer Carnarvon Petroleum Ltd. said on Sept. 4 that drilling results from the Dorado-3 appraisal well in Western Australia confirmed oil and gas reserves. The wireline logging well has successfully confirmed a hydrocarbon-bearing reservoir within the Caley, Baxter and Crespin intervals, the company said in a statement. “The Dorado-3 well is important in providing
Read More...Thirty-three oil companies submitted bids for exploration blocks offshore Norway in a so-called predefined areas (APA) licensing round, the Ministry of Oil and Energy said on Sept. 4. This year’s round comprised 48 blocks in the Arctic Barents Sea, 37 blocks in the Norwegian Sea and five in the North Sea. Bidders included oil majors Royal Dutch
Read More...Schlumberger introduced the TerraSphere high-definition (HD) dual-imaging-while-drilling service at SPE Offshore Europe Conference and Exhibition on Sept. 3. The new service provides the industry’s first application of LWD dual-physics imager for oil-based mud for drilling oil and gas wells. It incorporates electromagnetic (EM) and ultrasonic measurements that enable multiple high-resolution borehole images in nonconductive mud.
Read More...Several factors are contributing to the toxicity of fossil fuel stocks but one factor in particular—a political movement demanding that institutional investors divest their holdings—is a significant long-term driver. Is such an approach realistic, given the growing global demand for energy and the enormous challenges that would need to be overcome for solar and wind
Read More...Oilfield services provider Patterson-UTI on Sept. 3 said it had no plans to invest in electric hydraulic fracturing fleets, pointing to the high cost of building equipment and the oversupplied pressure pumping market. The company provides drilling and hydraulic fracturing services for oil and gas producers. It has explored divesting its fracking business as customers
Read More...Tom ShepstoneNatural Gas NOW … … Brooklyn, New York is apparently growing a new type of voter without the slightest clue how energy is made or delivered and politicians enable the ignorance. Subsequent to my post yesterday about New York politicians running on empty through bad neighborhoods, a friend sent me a Brooklyn story revealing
Read More...Jim WillisEditor & Publisher, Marcellus Drilling News (MDN) Electric power generation from natural gas in Pennsylvania is about to increase from 30% to 45% of the mix in three years, according to a new PUC report. Believe it or not, dry and sterile reports from government agencies, like the “Electric Power Outlook for Pennsylvania” issued by the
Read More...Angola’s National Agency for Petroleum, Gas and Biofuels (Anpg) on Tuesday launched its 2019 licensing round at a presentation in the capital city of Luanda, Kallanish Energy learns. The country is offering 10 offshore blocks in the Namibe and Benguela basins, which have been underexplored and are expected to hold significant reserves. They cover an
Read More...Four people died in a fire that occurred Tuesday at a facility operated by Indian state-owned Oil and Natural Gas Corp. (ONGC), Kallanish Energy learns. Three individuals were fire personnel of the police arm of the Central Industrial Security Force, while the fourth person was a resident production superintendent at the Uran Plant in Mumbai.
Read More...Cheniere Energy has announced that Train 2 at Corpus Christi, Texas, has reached substantial completion, Kallanish Energy reports. That was reached last week at the liquefaction/export facility, the company said on Tuesday. Commissioning is complete and Cheniere’s Epc partner Bechtel Oil, Gas and Chemicals Inc. has turned Train 2 over to Cheniere. Texas-based Cheniere has
Read More...The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission recently determined New York waived its water quality authority for Williams’ Constitution Pipeline, according to S&P Global Platts. The decision gives new life to the project, which stalled in April 2016 when state regulators denied a permit. The FERC reversed its earlier finding — that the New York review could
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