Kelsey MulacCabot Oil & GasExternal Affairs, Pittsburgh … … Energy industry employees, teachers and legislators learn more about the many benefits of the STEM mobile learning lab. On Monday, September 9, 2019, energy industry employees, local legislators, teachers and school administrators attended an event where they could ‘Meet the MOLU’ and learn about the many
Read More...Tom ShepstoneNatural Gas NOW … … There is nothing so maddening as a bad court decision, one that totally ignores the point of it all and creates chaos as a recent PennEast decision does. I get a lot of my business from lawyers but there are times I have Shakespearian dreams of eradicating the species.
Read More...Victor FurmanUpstate New York Landowner, Shale Gas Activist …. …. The 9/11 attack on the Twin Towers 18 years ago brought us together but now we’re as far apart as ever. Let’s rally around the energy security we now have. I was sitting in the cafeteria having breakfast with others at work when shortly
Read More...Jim WillisEditor & Publisher, Marcellus Drilling News (MDN) The unanimous FERC vote on the Constitution Pipeline tells us the agency has chosen to take over from Andrew Cuomo. Is it what he wanted? Or, are they angry? Just prior to taking a long Labor Day holiday weekend, MDN brought you news that the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
Read More...This Friday Thursday the justices sitting on the Pennsylvania Supreme Court will hear what we believe is the most important shale gas court case in the history of the state: Briggs v Southwestern Energy. We consider this case to be an existential threat to the future of shale gas drilling in PA should the decision
Read More...According to analysis by S&P Global Platts, new drilling permits for shale wells across Pennsylvania have “plummeted” over the past few months–down 14% in July and down 23% in August from the same months a year ago. But, does comparing two months from this year against last year for the entire state really tell the
Read More...Like it or not, landowners are joined at the hip with the shale drillers who produce the natural gas from their land. When “the price” (which is actually a lot of different prices, depending on geography) of natural gas is high, everyone is in tall cotton. But when the price tanks, as it has over
Read More...PA State Senator Andy Dinniman In April 2018, a Chester County, PA (Philadelphia area) Democrat State Senator by the name of Andy Dinniman (who we think looks like Tony Soprano) filed a formal, legal complaint with the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission (PUC), asking the PUC to shut down and keep closed all of the Mariner
Read More...Rick HidukManaging Editor of EndlessMtnLifestyles.com … … GasSearch Drilling Services (GDS) is employing Susquehanna County residents to support the gas drilling that has been economically sustaining the county. GasSearch Drilling Services (GDS) operations manager Chad Gorman has seen substantial growth in the Marcellus shale region of northern Pennsylvania and especially in Susquehanna County, where he
Read More...Kurt KnausSpokesmanPennsylvania Energy Infrastructure Alliance … … Andy Dinniman is a big fellow and, appropriately enough, he has failed bigly in Commonwealth Court as a panel of judges has ruled he never even had standing. Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court today reversed a June 2018 order by the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission that resulted from a taxpayer-funded
Read More...Natural gas-fired power generation is expected to increase in Pennsylvania over the next few years, according to the state Public Utility Commission’s (PUC’s) Electric Power Outlook for Pennsylvania 2018-2023 report released in August. The PUC’s report expects gas-fired power generation will account for as much as 45% of the state’s installed capacity by the end
Read More...Kelsey MulacCabot Oil & GasExternal Affairs, Pittsburgh … … Pennsylvania is now in the midst of a thrilling second decade of an energy revolution never imagined possible a dozen years ago and it has raised us all up. Cabot Oil & Gas Corporation, Energy Transfer and the Greater Susquehanna Valley Chamber of Commerce hosted a Think
Read More...Jim WillisEditor & Publisher, Marcellus Drilling News (MDN) Electric power generation from natural gas in Pennsylvania is about to increase from 30% to 45% of the mix in three years, according to a new PUC report. Believe it or not, dry and sterile reports from government agencies, like the “Electric Power Outlook for Pennsylvania” issued by the
Read More...click for larger version Believe it or not, dry and sterile reports from government agencies, like the “Electric Power Outlook for Pennsylvania” issued by the state Public Utility Commission, can be exciting! The latest edition of the EPO report predicts natural gas-fired electric generation in PA will go from a current 30% of all electricity
Read More...Sunoco Pipeline, a division/part of Energy Transfer, has just been fined (again) for work related to the construction of the Mariner East 2 pipeline project. This time around Sunoco got two fines: One for problems with their work in 2018, to the tune of $240,840, and one for work done back in 2017, to the
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