In early June, shale drillers could, for the first time, begin to apply for permits to drill under (not on top of) Ohio state lands and state parks under newly formulated rules established by the Ohio Oil & Gas Land Management (OGLM) Commission (see Ohio State Lands Now Open for O&G Leasing – Virtual Ribbon-Cutting)….
Read More...In April, MDN told you about a radicalized faction within the Pennsylvania Democrat Party trying yet another ploy to block all new Marcellus drilling in the state (see PA House Bill 170 Kills New Marcellus Drilling Using Setbacks). Danielle Friel Otten, a committed anti-fossil fueler representing part of Chester County (Philadelphia area) in the Pennsylvania…
Read More...In 2017, Texas-based Newpark Resources bought out and merged in Well Service Group located in Robinson Township, near Pittsburgh, for $75 million (see TX Newpark Resources Buys Pittsburgh Well Services Group for $75M). Well Service Group, a containment and well site service company, was founded in 2012 and sold and serviced equipment for Newpark from…
Read More...Earlier this month, we noticed a short Bloomberg article about a stray comment made by Exxon Mobile CEO Darren Woods. He was speaking at the Bernstein Annual Strategic Decisions Conference held on June 1 in New York City. Woods said he has tasked the brainiacs who work for Exxon to figure out a way to…
Read More...Natural Gas Now Best Picks – June 17, 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: forest fire lies spread like wildfire, 50 shades of tyranny and fracking technology continues
Read More...Even as the Bidenistas at the Dept. of Energy are deciding which regional hydrogen hub proposals to fund, and even though Pennsylvania, with its parochial application that competes against a much better application from West Virginia, Ohio, and Kentucky, the Democrats in the PA House are attempting to force any new hydrogen projects in the
Read More...Peak Oil: The Pessimism That Just Won’t Die No Matter What! Robert Bradley Founder and CEO of the Institute for Energy Research Principal, MasterResource: A Free-Market Energy Blog…. .… … [Editor’s Note: Peak oil won’t die because pessimism and Malthusian fears of running out are perennial favorites with those eager to scare others into putting
Read More...Is shale energy beginning to peter out? We’re beginning to see stories in oil and gas publications about how the best locations to drill for shale oil and gas are gone, and the less desirable, less productive locations are now left. We don’t know if that’s true, but it seems people whose multi-billion-dollar businesses depend
Read More...Researchers with Ohio Northern University recently published a study that finds that fracking for Utica Shale sometimes (“episodically”) reduces small Eastern Ohio River basin stream levels. The fluctuations in those stream levels “could” (but not necessarily do) negatively impact aquatic life (ecosystems) in those areas. The situation should, according to the researchers, be confirmed by
Read More...Natural Gas (and Oil) Industry Has Come A Very Long Way! George Stark Director, External Affairs Coterra Energy … .. [Editor’s Note: The natural gas and oil industry is one of the most adaptive and innovative enterprises that has ever existed, which is precisely why its enemies never succeed.] The natural gas and oil industry
Read More...Anti-fossil fuel zealots are demanding an update on a $2.5 million “study” awarded to the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School… Continue reading The post Anti-Shale Enviro Groups Demand Update on Pitt Cancer Study first appeared on Marcellus Drilling News. This post appeared first on Marcellus Drilling News.
Read More...Natural Gas Now Best Picks – May 27, 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: it’s the civilization and not the climate that is in crisis, the AP goes
Read More...Oil and Gas Emissions Keep Declining in Defiance of Enemies Jim Willis on NGL Pipelines Editor & Publisher, Marcellus Drilling News (MDN) [Editor’s Note: GHG emissions from the oil and gas industry keep declining relative to production and this fact is revealed in a report assembled by the industry’s enemies.] Three far-left organizations, the Clean Air
Read More...Last November, MDN told you about a lawsuit filed by a family in Washington County, PA, against Chevron (now EQT)… Continue reading The post DEP Finds Chevron Drilling Did Not Contaminate Water Well with PFAS first appeared on Marcellus Drilling News. This post appeared first on Marcellus Drilling News.
Read More...AI Is Revolutionizing An Already Hi-Tech Oil & Gas Industry Fayth Franzoy Gillespie Principal, Tactica Strategies .… … [Editor’s Note: Artificial intelligence or “AI” may need to be controlled but it has a very practical side as we see with the way it is being used by the oil and gas industry.] “It’s not
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