Last week, Stark County Common Pleas Judge Kristin G. Farmer dismissed the state’s lawsuit against Rover Pipeline over alleged water pollution, determining the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency waived its right to regulate pipeline construction under the Clean Water Act, according to the Canton Repository. The Ohio EPA had a year to act on the Rover’s
Read More...Russian energy minister Alexander Novak said Sunday his country will be fully compliant with Opec+ supply cuts over the coming weeks. “As far as the meeting is concerned we, of course, discussed the situation with the execution of the agreement (and) we stressed once again that Russia is discharging its obligations in accordance with the agreement
Read More...Crude oil prices rose Monday, supported by the possibility of a longer-than-expected Opec+ crude supply cut and indications of inventory declines at Cushing, Oklahoma. Representatives of Opec+, the amalgamation of most Opec members along with a number of non-Opec producer-countries led by Russia, met in Azerbaijan to monitor their crude supply reduction deal. They said
Read More...Britain’s liquefied natural gas (LNG) imports for March are at their highest levels in roughly 29 months, helping British wholesale gas prices slide to a more-than 18-month low. Britain is set to receive 14 cargoes in March, with six tankers scheduled for this week alone, Reuters reported. The country is on track to import 1.18
Read More...Oil and gas production in Ohio’s Utica Shale continues to climb as its 2,141 producing wells outpace old records, according to fourth-quarter results released by the Ohio Department of Natural Resources. Natural gas production increased 31.9 percent when compared with the same quarter in 2017 as drillers across the state yielded 663.5 billion cubic feet
Read More...Equitrans Midstream Corp’s unit signed a deal worth $1.03 billion yesterday to take control of two pipelines that connect the Marcellus and Utica shales, according to Reuters. EQM Midstream Partners LP will purchase a 60 percent stake in Eureka Midstream Holdings LLC and all of Hornet Midstream Holdings LLC from a fund managed by Morgan Stanley.
Read More...More than 60 percent of the electric generating capacity installed last year was fueled by natural gas, according to the Energy Information Administration. In 2018, 31.3 gigawatts (GW) of electric generating capacity were added in the United States, while 18.7 GW of capacity were retired. Of the additional capacity, 19.3 GW resulted from natural gas-fired
Read More...After spending the last couple of years exploring the horizontal well potential in north central Ohio, Cabot Oil & Gas Corp. has ceased operations in the Ashland and Richland County area, according to Farm and Dairy. The Houston-based energy company, which operates Marcellus shale wells in Pennsylvania, hoped to extract oil and gas from its
Read More...The Chester County commissioner recently announced they are seeking to join a lawsuit against Sunoco’s Mariner East pipeline and the intent to end an agreement to grant the company access to county land, according to The Philadelphia Inquirer. Earlier this year, the Chester County commissioners notified the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission about growing concern over
Read More...TransCanada will be allowed to increase the flow of gas on its Mountaineer XPress project and begin operating its Gulf XPress project thanks to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s approval of the full in-service of the Mountaineer XPress project, according to Gas Compression Magazine. “Mountaineer XPress and Gulf XPress are extremely important to TransCanada as
Read More...Eclipse and Blue Ridge Mountain Resources recently announced they’ve finally completed the merger they announced last August to form a new company called Montage Resources Corp., according to Kallanish Energy. Montage Resources common stock begins trading on the New York Stock Exchange earlier this week under the ticker symbol “MR”, giving effect to the 15-to-1
Read More...Range Resources plans to spend 90 percent of the $756 million it has set aside for capital spending in 2019 in the Appalachian Basin, according to Kallanish Energy. More than 60 percent of the company’s planned activity in the Appalachian Basin is directed towards liquids-rich drilling. It plans to bring 88 Marcellus Shale wells online
Read More...A new 550-megawatt natural gas-fired power plant in Harrison County is expected to break ground this spring and be operational by fall 2021, according to WV News. More importantly, the project is expected to serve as a catalyst in stimulating West Virginia’s economy. The plant, a joint project of Energy Solutions Consortium and Caithness Energy,
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