Gas Drilling Today: So Many Innovations, So Much Expertise

Madison WeaverCabot Oil & GasExternal Affairs Intern, Pittsburgh … … Gas drilling today is a story of innovation and companies such as Cabot Oil and Gas have been growing their expertise every day for many years now. “It has been such an amazing journey to watch this program develop and to be proud of what

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CNX Operates SWPA’s Sole 100% All-Electric Fracking Unit

A little over a year ago CNX Resources announced that the company had signed a long-term contract with Evolution Well Services to use Evolution’s 100% natural gas-fueled electric pressure pumping equipment (see CNX Signs Deal with Evolution to Use 100% Electric Fracking Fleet). That is, CNX will use electric fracking equipment, with the electricity generated

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Energy Realities for Confronting Crackpots and Frackpots

Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … … Energy realities are the proper tools of rebuttal for cleaning up the green slime generated by crackpot and frackpot utopians with ideas that can’t work. Mark Mills is one of those experts at the Manhattan Institute who are so darned good at confront fantasy with facts. I previously

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Shale Gas News – July 6, 2019

Bill desRosiersExternal Affairs Coordinator, Cabot Oil & Gas … … The Shale Gas News, heard every Saturday at 10 AM on 94.3 FM, 1510 AM and Sundays on YesFM, talked about the PA Budget, LNG exports, impact fee distribution and much more last week. The Shale Gas News has grown again; welcome Gem 104 as our FOURTH

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Natural Gas NOW Picks of the Week – July 6, 2019

Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … … Natural Gas NOW 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. Oreos Deal Anything But Black and White The manufacturer of Oreos says it’s cut a deal to buy

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Shale Gas News – June 29, 2019

Bill desRosiersExternal Affairs Coordinator, Cabot Oil & Gas … … The Shale Gas News, heard every Saturday at 10 AM on 94.3 FM, 1510 AM and Sundays on YesFM, talked about impact fee distribution, EQT, PPT Cracker Plant and much more last week. The Shale Gas News has grown again; welcome Gem 104 as our FOURTH station!

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Shale wells dominate oil and gas production in US

Unconventional wells, drilled deep into shale formations across the United States, continue to account for an increasing share of crude oil and natural gas production in the United States, according to the Energy Information Administration. From 2004 to 2018, production from horizontal wells jumped from 15% to 96% of U.S. crude oil production in tight

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DRBC Executive Director Steve Tambini Gets Snarky Over Lobbying Assertion

Betty SutliffWayne County LandownerUDRBC Secretary   DRBC Executive Director Steve Tambini didn’t like being called out for lobbying the Pennsylvania legislature in opposition to Jonathan Fritz’s H.B. 827. On June 6, 2019, several members of the Upper Delaware River Basin Citizens attended the Upper Delaware Council (UDC) meeting in Narrowsburg.  DRBC Executive Director Steve Tambini

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Shale Gas News – June 8, 2019

Bill desRosiersExternal Affairs Coordinator, Cabot Oil & Gas … … The Shale Gas News, heard every Saturday at 10 AM on 94.3 FM, 1510 AM and Sundays on YesFM, talked about LNG exports, NJ pipeline denial, natural gas demand and much more last week. The Shale Gas News has grown again; welcome Gem 104 as our FOURTH

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Shale Gas News – June 1, 2019

Bill desRosiersExternal Affairs Coordinator, Cabot Oil & Gas … … The Shale Gas News, heard every Saturday at 10 AM on 94.3 FM, 1510 AM and Sundays on YesFM, talked about New York City blackouts, fossil fuels, an American success story and much more last week. The Shale Gas News has grown again; welcome Gem 104 as

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Natural Gas NOW Picks of the Week – June 1, 2019

Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … … Natural Gas NOW 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. New York Is the Biggest Loser As Wealth Leaves the Empire State Andrew Cuomo, New York’s follower in

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H.B. 827 Draws Phony Attack from Delaware Riverkeeper Stooge?

Tom ShepstoneNatural Gas NOW … …  H.B. 827, Rep Jonathan Fritz’s bill to compensate DRBC landowners for their huge losses from the taking that would result from a fracking ban, is attacked. Former English teacher and now Rep. Wendy Ullman is from Bucks County, Pennsylvania where the average household income in 2017 was $108,848 compared

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Chinese Study Claims CO2 Better than Water in Fracking

From time to time MDN highlights new technologies used in shale drilling. We’ve talked about companies developing alternatives to water as a fracking fluid, things like liquefied petroleum gas (LPG or propane) fracking (see eCORP Tests New Waterless LPG Fracking Method on First Shale Well), and using baby oil as a fracking fluid (see ecorpStim

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Drill A Gas Well, Bring Home A Soldier: How It Came to Be

Victor FurmanUpstate New York Landowner, Shale Gas Activist …. ….   Vic Furman tells how “Drill A Gas Well, Bring Home A Soldier” became the slogan of Upstate NY landowners and explains why it’s important this Memorial Day. It was 2009. Three of us, Bryant LaTourette, Sue Dorsey and I were riding home together in

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Shale Gas News – May 25, 2019

Bill desRosiersExternal Affairs Coordinator, Cabot Oil & Gas … … The Shale Gas News, heard every Saturday at 10 AM on 94.3 FM, 1510 AM and Sundays on YesFM, talked about renewable natural gas, Atlantic Coast Pipeline, severance tax and much more last week. The Shale Gas News has grown again; welcome Gem 104 as our FOURTH

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