Industrywide Issues

Marcellus/Utica Heading for Another Pipeline Shortage – Part 2

Last week MDN brought you Part 1 of a series on the coming crisis in lack of pipeline capacity serving the Marcellus/Utica region (see Marcellus/Utica Heading for Another Pipeline Shortage). While the crisis isn’t fully here yet, it is on the way according to the expert analysts at RBN Energy. Today we have Part 2

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Is Scheme to “Certify” NatGas Emissions a Carbon Tax Trojan Horse?

On Friday MDN told you that EQT has partnered with a company called Project Canary (used to be Independent Energy Standards Corporation) to use the TrustWell™ Responsible Gas Program to monitor two EQT gas wells to prove to the world (in particular the global warming lunatics) that EQT’s gas is good and green (see EQT

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The Left’s Plan to Strip American Freedom Using “Climate Change”

Forget about the great American road trip. You won’t be able to charge your electric vehicle quickly enough or (in some cases) at all. Prepare to have your views of the countryside ruined by solar panels and windmills on just about every available hill, mountain, and ridgeline. Oh yeah, and get used to being a

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PA Gov. Wolf Floats Budget with Severance Tax for 7th Year in Row

Invoking the words “coronavirus” and “COVID-19” like a magical talisman, Pennsylvania’s far-left, bumbling governor, Tom Wolf, has for the seventh year in a row issued a budget proposal that won’t pass because it includes a Marcellus-killing severance tax on top of the existing severance tax (called an impact “fee”). Every year the urgent/critical reason changes

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Backstabber Chatterjee Promotes Transition Away from Natural Gas

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) member Neil Chatterjee during a recent webinar “laid out the business case for the GOP to get on board with the clean energy transition.” Chatterjee “urged the natural gas sector to be nimble and open to new opportunities the transition may present.” What kind of “new” opportunities and “transition” is

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NextEra Energy Writes Down $1.2B for Mountain Valley Pipeline

The world’s largest producer of wind and solar energy, NextEra Energy, also happens to be a major investor in the 303-mile Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP) project. On Tuesday NextEra announced it recorded a loss in fourth-quarter 2020, mainly because of a $1.2 billion write down on its investment in MVP. But have no fear, “write

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Maryland Bd of Public Works Approves Wetlands Permit for Gas Pipe

In December, the Maryland Board of Public Works (BPW), which has three members (two leftwing Democrats and RINO Gov. Larry Hogan), surprisingly approved a 10-inch, 6.83-mile pipeline for the Maryland portion of a 19+ mile project called the Del-Mar Energy Pathway Project, crossing both Delaware and Maryland (see Maryland Board of Public Works Approves Tiny

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NatGas Prices in Boston, NYC Double in One Day, Electric Up 55%

click for larger version Although a true polar vortex has not yet visited the northeastern U.S. as previously predicted, temperatures in the northeast have fallen and are forecast to be the lowest so far this winter in the next few days. Due to lack of natural gas pipelines to New York and New England, the

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New Strategy for Pipe Cos. – Buy Existing Pipes Rather than Build

U.S. pipeline companies are under no illusion of just how bad the next four years will be for their business, at least for building new pipelines. We told you last week that Williams CEO Alan Armstrong predicted there will be no new greenfield pipelines built during the Biden administration (see Williams CEO Alan Armstrong Says

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Weymouth, MA Compressor Station Now Online – Will it Stay Online?

Finally! The Weymouth compressor station, the final piece of the $452 million Atlantic Bridge expansion project that has been years in the making, is either now online and flowing gas, or will be within a day or two at most. However, given a vote last week by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) questioning whether

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Liens Served on PA/OH Landowner Property re Risberg Pipeline

click for larger version In March 2019 MDN brought you the news that Wood Group had been awarded a $34 million contract to build 28 miles of the 60-mile Risberg Pipeline from Crawford County, PA to Ashtabula County, OH (see Wood Wins $34M Contract to Build PA to OH Risberg Pipeline). The portion Wood built

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Maryland Bd of Public Works Considers Wetlands Permit for Gas Pipe

In December, the Maryland Board of Public Works (BPW), which has three members (two leftwing Democrats and RINO Gov. Larry Hogan), surprisingly approved a 10-inch, 6.83-mile pipeline for the Maryland portion of a 19+ mile project called the Del-Mar Energy Pathway Project, crossing both Delaware and Maryland (see Maryland Board of Public Works Approves Tiny

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Mountaineer NGL Storage Looks at Non-NGL Hydrogen Storage

Here’s an interesting twist. Just last week we told you about ongoing opposition from anti-fossil fuelers to a currently dormant project, the Mountaineer NGL Storage hub project in Monroe County, OH (see Opposition to Dormant Mountaineer NGL Storage Hub in Monroe, OH). Mountaineer wants to build an underground storage cavern to hold natural gas liquids,

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Most Important Lawsuit in PA Shale History – Review & Fallout

It was exactly one year ago that the Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled in THE most consequential lawsuit for Marcellus Shale drilling we’ve seen, a case called Briggs v Southwestern Energy (see HUGE NEWS: PA Supreme Court Keeps ‘Rule of Capture’ for Fracking). Now that the dust has settled, it’s a good time to take a

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