Antero partners with Quantum to fund Marcellus Development

Antero Resources Corp. is partnering with an affiliate of Quantum Energy Partners to fund a portion of its Marcellus and Utica shale development through 2024, according to Natural Gas Intelligence. QL Capital Partners would fund 20% of Antero’s development capital spending this year and 15-20% from 2022 to 2024 in exchange for working interest in

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An Information Standards and Fact-Checking Advisory Board Nightmare

Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. . … Free speech is under furious assault by a merging of media and government establishing information standards for all of us. I had a nightmare last night. I dreamed I was living in the year 2025 and green political correctness had won the day. Everyone was “woke,” as they

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Shale Gas News – February 27, 2021

Bill desRosiersExternal Affairs Coordinator, Cabot Oil & Gas … … The Shale Gas News, heard every Saturday at 10 AM on 94.3 FM, 1510 AM, 1600 AM, 104.1 FM and Sundays on YesFM, talked about Putin’s pipeline, carbon tax, natural gas storage and much more last week. The Shale Gas News has grown again to the Williamsport

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Delaware River Basin Commission permanently bans fracking

The Delaware River Basin Commission permanently banned hydraulic fracturing in the Delaware River Basin on Feb. 25, citing the importance of protecting public health and a water supply that more than 13 million people in four states rely on, according to Farm and Dairy. The commission’s move will ban high-volume hydraulic fracturing in the 13,539 square-mile

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GDS (GasSearch Drilling Services) Susquehanna County’s Top Employer!

George StarkDirector, External AffairsCabot Oil & Gas … .. [Editor’s Note: Natural gas to the economic rescue: GDS (shorthand for GasSearch Drilling Services) is now Susquehanna County’s top employer!] Make room! GasSearch Drilling Services (GDS) has been named the largest employer in Susquehanna County as of the 2nd quarter in 2020*! GDS is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Cabot and they have been working tirelessly

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Natural Gas Now Best Picks of the Week – February 27, 2021

Tom ShepstoneShepstone 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. As usual, emphasis is added. The More You Get, the More Costly It Gets! Some more great insights on Texas: On Thursday, Texas Public Policy Foundation

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DRBC Fracking Ban A Showcase for Corruption That Pervades Politics

Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. . … You may imagine I’m putting lipstick on a pig but, mark my words, the DRBC ban is a fatal misstep by this gang of public agency thieves. Yesterday, I pointed out why the DRBC fracking ban was a fatal misstep for the agency. It brought to a culmination

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DRBC Ban A Fatal Misstep That Could Make Landowners Rich!

Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. . … You may imagine I’m putting lipstick on a pig but, mark my words, the DRBC ban is a fatal misstep by this gang of public agency thieves. Well, after a decade of pretending they weren’t stealing the gas rights of Upper Delaware landowners, the Commissioners of the Delaware

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Cuomo Revelations Mean It Is Time to Re-Examine NY Fracking Ban

Victor FurmanUpstate New York Landowner, Shale Gas Activist …. ….   [Editor’s Note: Andrew Cuomo is corrupt and the whole world now knows it. The Cuomo revelations tell us it is time to re-examine his fracking ban.] It’s out now, The narcissistic ways of the king have been revealed, showing that, all along, he was

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Severance Tax Obsessed Tom Wolf Proposes It Yet Again with More Lies

Jim WillisEditor & Publisher, Marcellus Drilling News (MDN) [Editor’s Note: If the third time wasn’t the charm, the seventh time is surely dead on arrival for Tom the Trust-Funder Wolf’s severance tax obsession.] As we reported in January, Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf (Democrat) has, for the seventh year in a row, introduced a Marcellus-killing severance tax proposal

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DRBC….a Pecksniffian Party of Phony Pontificating Plunderers

Bob NolanWayne County, Pennsylvania, Landowner …. Our friend Bob Nolan uses Dickens and Blazing Saddles to illustrate what a bunch of phonies the DRBC amounts to when it comes to us. Ironic how relevant Charles Dickens’ novel “Martin Chuzzlewit” remains in today’s world.“Seth Pecksniff, a character with a holier-than-thou attitude in Charles Dickens’s 1844 novel

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Illinois Landowners Could Offer DRBC A Lesson on Regulatory Takings

Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. . … Illinois landowners have gotten some attention with their Petition to the Supreme Court for Certiorari and the DRBC should be worried. The DRBC has spent a decade frustrating the efforts of landowners in the basin to develop their natural gas resources. It has done so with an illegal

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DRBC to Finally Decide on Fracking Ban?

Nearly three and a half years: That’s how long the Delaware River Basin Commission has been sitting on regulations it opened for public comment that could decide the fate of oil and natural gas development within the region. It appears this week the commission will finally (maybe) answer the question: Can shale development occur in

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Shale Gas News – February 20, 2021

Bill desRosiersExternal Affairs Coordinator, Cabot Oil & Gas … … The Shale Gas News, heard every Saturday at 10 AM on 94.3 FM, 1510 AM, 1600 AM, 104.1 FM and Sundays on YesFM, talked about the DRBC Frack Ban, RGGI, a Seneca Rig and much more last week. The Shale Gas News has grown again to the

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Gas Industry Has A Great Story to Retell and It Must Be Retold Often!

Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. . … The natural gas industry has accomplished so very much, delivering economic and environmental benefits everywhere, but it must be retold. We talk a lot about how to keep the gas industry moving forward in a COVID economy, including the importance of legislation aimed at attracting new businesses to

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