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Laterals Just Keep Getting Longer, As Gas Footprints Shrink

Jim WillisEditor & Publisher, Marcellus Drilling News (MDN) [Editor’s Note: Laterals just keep getting longer as drilling moves out underground and stays confined to a small well pad on the surface.] Deep Well Services (DWS), headquartered in Butler County, PA, is living up to the company name. DWS is one of our favorite oilfield services companies, born

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AREGCBA Likely to Create More NY Refugees: Climate Refugees

Roger CaiazzaIndependent Researcher and Publisher,Pragmatic Environmentalist of New York … AREGCBA is nothing short of a climate refugee creator, the environmental impact from the wind turbines and solar panels will be staggering. This post summarizes the comments I submitted on the draft regulations proposed by the New York Office of Renewable Energy Siting to implement the Accelerated Renewable Energy Growth

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Shale POWER Will Help Businesses Grow by Supplying the Industry

Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … … Shale POWER is a new initiative designed to help businesses find a place in the shale gas industry supply chain and to grow. Appalachia, which includes parts of three states that are experiencing a boom due to shale gas. The challenge is to maximize the gain within the

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Shale Gas News – November 14, 2020

Bill desRosiersExternal Affairs Coordinator, Cabot Oil & Gas … … The Shale Gas News, heard every Saturday at 10 AM on 94.3 FM, 1510 AM, 1600 AM, 104.1 FM and Sundays on YesFM, talked about fracking under Biden, emissions, Energy Transfer and much more last week. The Shale Gas News has grown again to the Williamsport area

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Natural Gas Now Best Picks of the Week – November 14, 2020

Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … … 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. Warren Buffet Funds Fractivists: It’s All About His Money This is nothing new as we explained here, here and here, but

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Natural Gas Infrastructure Essential to Affordable, Reliable U.S. Energy

The U.S. Shale Revolution has transformed the energy landscape domestically and among our trading partners. In the United States, the robust growth of affordable natural gas has translated into energy security, job growth, and environmental benefits. Thanks to abundant natural gas reservoirs, the United States has become a net gas exporter while drastically reducing its

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EID Response to the New York Times

A recent article in the New York Times made several sensational and dubious allegations about Energy In Depth (EID) and the work that this program does. As the person who started the program back in 2009, I thought it would be useful to provide a short history lesson. When the Independent Petroleum Association of America

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Blue Collar Centrists Won the Day in Pennsylvania

Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … … The Pennsylvania election may still be up in the air Presidentially speaking, but it is clear blue collar centrists won the day over radicals. The Pennsylvania election results are being challenged as I write this post. Joe Biden claims it and Donald Trump says that isn’t so, as

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New Trade Deal Highlights Increasing Demand for U.S. LNG

A new agreement between the United States and China indicates that trade relations for liquified natural gas (LNG) are on the mend, which is great news for both countries. Reporting from Oil Price earlier this week explains that U.S. LNG producer and exporter Cheniere Energy has recently signed an agreement with China’s Foran Energy Group

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Energy-Related CO2 Emissions Decline Again: Thank Fracking!

Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … … Energy-related CO2 emissions have declined yet again, according to the EIA, and natural gas used for electricity is still the primary reason. It’s getting to be old news now, but the continued decline of energy-related CO2 emissions as electricity is increasingly generated by natural gas continues. It’s a

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Restrooms, Fresh Water and Economic Opportunities

Bill desRosiersExternal Affairs Coordinator, Cabot Oil & Gas … … Opportunities abound in the shale region, including the providing of such critically important services as portable restrooms in the field. The majority of activities involved with the natural gas industry occur outdoors. This means that access to modern conveniences for those who work the rigs and lay

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RGGI Carbon Tax on Pennsylvanians Being Pushed by Wolf’s DEP

Jim WillisEditor & Publisher, Marcellus Drilling News (MDN) [Editor’s Note: Tom Wolf has his nose up in the air again as tells Pennsylvanians RGGI and a 50% increase in electric rates will be good for them!] Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf and his Dept. of Environmental Protection (DEP) continue to push a plan that will raise Pennsylvania residents’

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UGI Energy Services Bethlehem LNG Facility Now Online

Connie MellinNatural Gas NOW“PAShaleAdvocate”   The UGI Bethlehem liquified natural gas facility is now online and ready to supply LNG to meet demands of power plants during peak times. UGI Energy Services, LLC held a ribbon cutting today to celebrate their new LNG facility coming online. The Bethlehem LNG Facility will be a great asset

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Shale Gas News – November 7, 2020

Bill desRosiersExternal Affairs Coordinator, Cabot Oil & Gas … … The Shale Gas News, heard every Saturday at 10 AM on 94.3 FM, 1510 AM, 1600 AM, 104.1 FM and Sundays on YesFM, talked about oil prices, the Paris Agreement, EQT and much more last week. The Shale Gas News has grown again to the Williamsport area

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