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Williams CEO Tells COP28 Delegates NatGas Will Fuel Transition

Williams is a powerhouse pipeline company. Williams operates more than 33,000 miles of pipelines in the U.S. and flows approximately one-third of the natural gas used in our country through those pipelines. Massive! The CEO of Williams, Alan Armstrong, is (or was) in Dubai for the United Nations COP28 climate meeting. He was there to…

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EQT Signs Oil & Gas Decarbonization Charter at UN COP28

There’s been a lot of news coming from the UN COP28 climate event in Dubai. In some respects, we feel like it’s a firehose of news about leftists targeting fossil energy (even though the event is being hosted by the CEO of a fossil fuel company). COP28 runs from Nov. 30 to Dec. 12, so…

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The Slowly Growing Market of Buyers for Certified Natural Gas

Almost every major (and most minor) drillers in the Marcellus/Utica have, over the past couple of years, signed on to one or more of the responsible gas certification authorities. Just yesterday, we told you that PennEnergy Resources had its full operations certified by MiQ, the second such certification the company has sought and received (see…

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PennEnergy Resources Gets Perfect “A” Methane Grade from MiQ

In January of 2022, PennEnergy Resources LLC, the 11th largest shale driller in Pennsylvania, achieved responsibly sourced natural gas certification from Project Canary on nearly all of its wells (see PennEnergy Receives “Responsibly Sourced Gas” Rating for Most Wells). Project Canary issued its top “Gold” and “Platinum” ratings on (at that time) 375 of PennEnergy’s…

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Big Drop in Fugitive Methane Emissions in M-U, Other Shale Basins

The 28th U.N. Conference of the Parties, or COP28, gets underway today in Dubai. Representatives from most of the world’s countries will be there to party, get drunk, and pretend to care about the Big Lie that mankind is somehow destroying the planet by burning fossil fuels. With hypocrites confabbing in Dubai, it’s the perfect…

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S&P Global Re-Wokeifies? Offers Gas Carbon Intensity Measures

In August, MDN brought you the good news that the S&P (Standard & Poor’s) credit rating agency, called S&P Global Rating (the largest of the Big Three credit-rating agencies), had dumped its system of numerically ranking corporate borrowers on their ESG risk on a scale of 1 to 5 — just two years after implementing…

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JPMorgan Signals It Will Stop Funding Certain O&G Projects

Supposedly JPMorgan Chase remains the world’s #1 largest funder of fossil fuels since the so-called Paris Agreement was adopted by 196 of the world’s countries in December 2015. The Paris Agreement calls on governments to use force to ensure the global average temperature (that nobody seems to be able to pinpoint accurately) doesn’t rise more…

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Which Responsible Gas Cert Do a Majority of M-U Drillers Use?

We’ve written plenty about so-called certified natural gas, which is “responsibly produced” (as opposed to irresponsibly produced?) gas. The way a driller proves the gas they are selling is certified as responsible is to use a third-party verification vendor — typically either Project Canary or MiQ (see Former “Responsible Gas” Becoming “Certified” or “Differentiated”). Many…

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Gulfport Energy’s Entire M-U Operation Gets “A” on MiQ Report Card

Gulfport Energy, the third-largest driller in the Ohio Utica Shale (by the number of wells drilled), is the latest Marcellus/Utica driller to have its gas certified by MiQ. After a thorough review, MiQ gave Gulfport’s operations and the natural gas it produces its highest grade of “A.” Gulfport, which drills in both the Ohio Utica…

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NFG’s Midstream Gathering Unit Achieves EO100 Responsible Gas Cert

In August 2022, Seneca Resources, a subsidiary and the drilling arm of National Fuel Gas Company, announced it had achieved an “A” certification grade under the MiQ Standard for Methane Emissions Performance (MiQ Standard), the highest available certification level MiQ awards, for all of the company’s 1+ billion cubic feet per day (Bcf/d) of natural…

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Project Canary Sings Before PA Senate Ctte About Methane Tracking

Yesterday, the Pennsylvania Senate Environmental Resources and Energy Committee held an informational briefing on Project Canary, a company that measures, analyzes, and reports on methane emissions from natural gas production and distribution infrastructure. Many Marcellus/Utica drillers use Project Canary’s services in their programs to produce “responsibly sourced gas” (RSG). It appears the aim of the…

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Natural Gas Now Best Picks – September 30, 2023

Natural Gas Now Best Picks – September 30, 2023 Tom Shepstone Shepstone Management Company, Inc. … … NOTE: While this feature will continue on our new site, Energy Security and Freedom, this is our last post here at Natural Gas NOW. The site will remain up for now for archival purposes, but new material will

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Electricity Cannot Be A Matter of Dogma or Wishful Thinking!

Electricity Cannot Be A Matter of Dogma or Wishful Thinking! Tom Shepstone Shepstone Management Company, Inc. … … Electricity is a miracle, but it cannot be allowed to become a matter of dogma or wishful thinking by the naive, the compromised or those who would be dictators. Our friends at the CO2 Coalition have shared

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Poll: Only 4% of NY Puts Environmental Threats at the Top

Poll: Only 4% of NY Puts Environmental Threats at the Top Roger Caiazza (on the subject of) Independent Researcher and Publisher, Pragmatic Environmentalist of New York   … [Editor’s Note: Net zero hits rock bottom as stunning Sienna College poll shows only 4% of New Yorkers agree environment threats should be the primary concern of

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Natural Gas Now Best Picks – September 23, 2023

Natural Gas Now Best Picks – September 23, 2023 Tom Shepstone Shepstone 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. This week’s natural gas best picks: Big Cats Going, Going, the Enemy Is Us, Not Panicking

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