Fact Sheet: What Is Flaring?

Flaring is a temporary and necessary practice in oil and natural gas production that is used to ensure safety and mitigate emissions. Despite this, the practice has received negative media​ attention that is often lacking  important context. Production companies strive to find innovative ways to reduce the need to flare, and the results of these efforts are clear: U.S.

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Enviros Reject NMOGA Plan to Reduce Oil, Natural Gas Methane Emissions

Reducing methane emissions has been a significant focus of both the U.S. oil and natural gas industry and environmentalists in recent years. Yet, the New Mexico Oil and Gas Association’s recently proposed Methane Mitigation Roadmap for the state’s industry to significantly reduce these emissions has been rejected by these same environmental groups. The recommendations within

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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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Delek says gas exports to Egypt by year’s end

Israel’s Delek Drilling said it has completed testing of a subsea natural gas pipeline to Egypt, but commercial sales by June 30 did not occur as originally projected, Kallanish Energy understands. Delek and its partner, the U.S.’s Noble Energy, signed a deal early in 2018 to export $15 billion in natural gas from Israeli offshore gas fields

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Working gas injected falls under 100 Bcf 2nd straight week

The volume of working natural gas injected in the most recent weekly report by the Energy Information Administration was under 100 billion cubic feet for the second straight week, Kallanish Energy reports. For the week ended June 28, 89 Bcf of working gas was injected underground, bringing total working gas stored to 2.39 trillion cubic

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Working-rig total slips slightly

The number of rigs working onshore in the Lower 48 U.S. states dipped slightly last week, the fourth week in the last five where the working-rig total has fallen, data from Baker Hughes, a GE company, reveals. For the five-day period ended July 3 (two days shorter than normal due to the Fourth of July

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Pipeline Supporters Rally for Atlantic Coast Pipeline Against Enviro Elites

Jim WillisEditor & Publisher, Marcellus Drilling News (MDN) Pipelines supporters from affected North Carolina communities have had enough of environmental activists and political elites standing in their way. Atlantic Coast Pipeline (ACP), a $7 billion, 600-mile pipeline that will stretch from West Virginia into North Carolina, is facing an existential threat by leftist environmentalists. The project is

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Batteries Not Included; The True Levelized Cost of Renewables

Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … … Batteries not included applies not to only the new toy you bought but also to the calculated levelized cost of renewables. The true cost is astronomical. A fascinating article by Roger Andrews at Energy Matters gets into a matter of the highest importance when it comes to renewables.

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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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Delaware PovertyKeeper Loses in Commonwealth Court Yet Again

Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … … Delaware PovertyKeeper attempts to tie up the shale gas industry in litigation continue apace, but also continuing are losses in Commonwealth Court. Remember Middlesex Township, Butler County, where the Delaware PovertyKeeper, ignoring its charter, hopped 200+ miles beyond the Delaware to fight natural gas development in Western Pennsylvania?

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Climateers: If You Mean It, You Should Love Natural Gas

Richard DowneyUnatego Area Landowners Association Climateers, Richard Downey says, are not being truthful when they pretend anything other than natural gas is going to address what they say needs to happen. Adrian Kuzminski’s June 13/14 column “If Facts Can’t Defuse Deniers, What Can?” opens with the passage from the New Testament where Pontius Pilate asks

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“Absolutely Absurd” Report Claims LNG Will Make Climate Change Worse

In its latest attack on increased use of natural gas, Global Energy Monitor claims that liquefied natural gas “poses a direct challenge to Paris climate goals.” And despite the absurdity of such an argument – when natural gas is credited with helping decrease U.S. emissions to their lowest levels since the early 1990s – media

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New Mexico is Rich with Oil and Natural Gas Revenue

Prolific oil and natural gas production – particularly in Eddy and Lea counties that sit atop the Permian Basin – is driving a record-breaking revenue year for New Mexico, according to a recent New Mexico Legislative Finance Committee report. As New Mexico Oil and Gas Association Executive Director Ryan Flynn told EID: “A historic expansion

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The Local Natural Gas Benefits of Local Natural Gas

Madison WeaverCabot Oil & GasExternal Affairs Intern, Pittsburgh … … Natural gas benefits are many to the environment, our energy security and the economies of both rural and urban areas, but local benefits stand out bigly. Oil and natural gas production doesn’t happen in a bubble; aside from creating new jobs, natural gas production also

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