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
Read More...Roy Weikert founded General Films Inc. in 1947 — and that wasn’t his start in the plastics industry. His career began about a decade earlier when he created and sold liners for hats, developing a homemade machine. Weikert, 105, died April 11 at the Brethren Retirement Community in Greenville, Ohio. General Films, based in Covington,
Read More...In its latest attack on increased use of natural gas, Global Energy Monitor claims that liquefied natural gas “poses a direct challenge to Paris climate goals.” And despite the absurdity of such an argument – when natural gas is credited with helping decrease U.S. emissions to their lowest levels since the early 1990s – media
Read More...I’ve tried to understand plastophobia for years now and do have some answers — the people see them as indefinite, unnatural, synthetic, unpredictable: “We know what metal is, what wood is, what paper is, but we don’t know what plastic is.” The very word means moldable, changeable, as plastic surgery. But that’s not enough. If
Read More...Inteplast Group is expanding its manufacturing footprint for stretch film with a $20 million project in Indiana. The Livingston, N.J.-based company, through its AmTopp division, has acquired an existing 350,000-square-foot facility in Remington, Ind., with an eye toward cutting delivery times to customers in the Midwest. Work already has begun on the site, and the
Read More...The British Plastics Federation (BPF) has released a response to the BBC program “War on Plastic.” The show, presented by celebrity chef Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall and Anita Rani, looked at the ways in which plastic was used and, in some cases, overused, while highlighting now consumers could reduce their plastic consumption. Commenting on the program, the
Read More...Exactly three years ago, TransCanada Corporation (now renamed TC Energy) completed a deal to buy out and merge in Columbia Pipeline Group for $10 billion (see TransCanada and Columbia Pipeline Tie the Knot Today). Columbia (now TC Energy) owns significant assets in the Marcellus/Utica region. Yesterday TC Energy announced it is selling some of those
Read More...Yesterday the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, the court that handles challenges to regulatory agencies like the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), refused to toss out a case filed by the City of Oberlin, OH and a regional anti group (with the backing of Big Green lawyer$). The lawsuit challenges FERC’s approval of the NEXUS
Read More...Global warming fundamentalists certainly are a persistent lot. They can’t win elections, and they can’t force state or federal legislatures to pass laws banning pipelines (and shale drilling), so they do the next best thing. They twist our own court system against us in an attempt to block pipelines. Which has worked to some degree,
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