As we outline in a companion post today, the Biden-Harris Department of Energy is investing $44 million in a project to drill two carbon dioxide injection wells, one in West Virginia and the other in Ohio (see DOE Spends $44M on Drilling CO2 Injection Wells in WV & OH). Some companies are ready to dive…
Read More...Last week, MDN brought you a story about a developing issue of who, ultimately, should pay to build out new electricity sources for data centers (and AI) that increasingly use huge amounts of power (see Big Tech and Big Utility Tangle in Ohio re Data Center Electricity). A large utility company in central Ohio, AEP…
Read More...Manu Asthana, CEO of PJM The CEO of the country’s largest electric grid, PJM Interconnection, which covers all or parts of 13 states, including PA, OH, and WV, is ratcheting up his rhetoric about his concerns that PJM is heading for outages if new sources of power don’t come online quickly. At a recent meeting…
Read More...Yesterday, EQT announced that the company had reached so-called “net zero” emissions for Scopes 1 and 2 more than a year earlier than planned. The milestone includes assets purchased and added to the company from Alta Resources and Tug Hill/XcL Midstream. However, it does not include the assets added from the Equitrans Midstream merger in…
Read More...Rhode Island State Energy Center (click for larger version) Shell signed an agreement to buy 100% of RISEC Holdings’ 609-megawatt (MW) two-unit combined-cycle gas turbine power plant located near Providence, Rhode Island. Which we find interesting—that Rhode Island (of all places) still has a large gas-fired power plant operating. We thought the commies who run…
Read More...Here’s something the radical left in mainstream media that demagogues LNG-by-rail either doesn’t know or is covering up: There are some trains *already* transporting LNG on rail cars today, despite a ban on the practice by the Bidenista. How? Some trains use LNG as fuel for the locomotive engines that pull the train. The LNG…
Read More...This morning, Diversified Energy Company (formerly Diversified Gas & Oil) announced it had signed a deal to supply 40 billion cubic feet (Bcf) of natural gas over three years to a “major Gulf Coast LNG facility” for exporting. The contract begins in November (next month!), which means even though Diversified isn’t (yet) willing to identify…
Read More...Yesterday, the radicalized Clean Air Council and Environmental Integrity Project filed a rulemaking petition with the Pennsylvania Environmental Quality Board (EQB) asking the EQB to increase minimum setback distances from fracked wells. Setbacks, also referred to as protective buffers and no-drill zones in the context of fracking, are mandatory distances that fracked wells must abide…
Read More...click for larger version Carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) is currently all the rage. Carbon dioxide (CO2), the stuff you exhale with every breath you take, is supposedly a “pollutant,” according to the left. Too much CO2 in the atmosphere—which gets there by burning things like wood and gasoline and natural gas—supposedly causes a canopy…
Read More...Alan Armstrong Alan Armstrong, CEO of Williams, had some interesting things to say during a recent webinar hosted by the Global Listed Infrastructure Organization (GLIO). Among Armstrong’s comments: “Across the board, I’ve never seen a time like this. I’ve been with Williams for 38 years and in the gas pipeline and gathering business for that…
Read More...There is no excerpt because this is a protected post. The post Short Pipelines are the Fast, Easy, Cheap Solution for Data Centers first appeared on Marcellus Drilling News. This post appeared first on Marcellus Drilling News.
Read More...The Ohio Oil & Gas Land Management Commission (OGLMC) met yesterday to consider whether to allow fracking under (not on) two Ohio state-owned lands, including the Leesville Wildlife Area in Carroll County and Salt Fork State Park in Guernsey County. Commissioners approved moving forward to the next step with Leesville, which is to accept bids….
Read More...Last December, Murrysville (PA) Council members voted to lease land for shale drilling under two town parks—Duff Park and Murrysville Community Park (see Murrysville, PA to Vote in Dec. on Plan to Drill Under Two Parks). Murrysville is located in Westmoreland County, in the southwestern part of the state. Olympus Energy pitched proposals to lease…
Read More...The Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR) asked a panel of lawmakers called the Ohio Controlling Board to waive the need for competitive bidding for $11.2 million in contracts to plug orphaned oil and gas wells around the state. Yesterday, the Controlling Board approved the request. The contracts were awarded to two companies: Next LVL…
Read More...Last Friday, RBN Energy published a blog post declaring that the Shell ethane cracker in Monaca (Beaver County), PA, is now “firing on all cylinders.” The post retrospectively covers the project’s history, from construction through recent problems as the plant was commissioned to the present day. We learned something interesting: Shell, a petrochemical giant and…
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