Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … … The Pennsylvania election may still be up in the air Presidentially speaking, but it is clear blue collar centrists won the day over radicals. The Pennsylvania election results are being challenged as I write this post. Joe Biden claims it and Donald Trump says that isn’t so, as
Read More...Bill desRosiersExternal Affairs Coordinator, Cabot Oil & Gas … … Opportunities abound in the shale region, including the providing of such critically important services as portable restrooms in the field. The majority of activities involved with the natural gas industry occur outdoors. This means that access to modern conveniences for those who work the rigs and lay
Read More...Yesterday UGI Energy Services, a subsidiary of Pennsylvania utility company UGI Corporation, held a ribbon-cutting ceremony at its brand new Bethlehem, PA LNG peak shaver facility. Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission (PUC) Chairwoman Gladys Brown Dutrieuille was among the dignitaries on hand to celebrate. What is a “peak shaver” and why is this an important project
Read More...Last week Pennsylvania issued a paltry 3 new shale well drilling permits (lowest we’ve seen in months), Ohio issued a single new permit, and West Virginia issued 5 new shale well permits. All 3 PA permits were issued in Greene County. The OH permit was issued in Carroll County (bit of a surprise). And all
Read More...Jim WillisEditor & Publisher, Marcellus Drilling News (MDN) [Editor’s Note: Tom Wolf has his nose up in the air again as tells Pennsylvanians RGGI and a 50% increase in electric rates will be good for them!] Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf and his Dept. of Environmental Protection (DEP) continue to push a plan that will raise Pennsylvania residents’
Read More...Connie MellinNatural Gas NOW“PAShaleAdvocate” The UGI Bethlehem liquified natural gas facility is now online and ready to supply LNG to meet demands of power plants during peak times. UGI Energy Services, LLC held a ribbon cutting today to celebrate their new LNG facility coming online. The Bethlehem LNG Facility will be a great asset
Read More...Radical anti-fossil fuel groups have not given up hope they can somehow, at the last minute, block the $10 billion Shell ethane cracker plant (about a year from being completed) from ever starting up. Perhaps Biden’s “victory” has given them a little boost of irrational exuberance? In 2015 the Pennsylvania Dept. of Environmental Protection (DEP)
Read More...Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf and his Dept. of Environmental Protection (DEP) continue to push a plan that will raise Pennsylvania residents’ electric rates by 50% or more, a carbon tax plan called the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI). The DEP will conduct 10 three-hour virtual public hearings between Dec. 8 and 14. There will be
Read More...... … … [Editor’s Note: Tom Wolf arrogantly demands Pennsylvania join RGGI to pay 50% higher electric bills like the rest of the Northeast states in the suicide pact.] Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf vetoed the state legislature’s bill that would prohibit new taxes without legislative approval and ordered his staff to continue with the implementation
Read More...Natalie DeCarioExternal Affairs Coordinator, Cabot Oil & Gas … … [Editor Comment: Cabot Oil & Gas has plans to donate some $200,000 to charitable causes this winter, monies being set aside to help others basic needs.] This winter season, we’ve committed to donating more than $200,000 in order to help battle food insecurity across northeast Pennsylvania. In coordination with the Neighborhood
Read More...The radicalized Pennsylvania Environmental Defense Foundation (PEDF) never gives up. In June 2017, the PEDF won a case at the PA Supreme Court by the skin of their teeth (see PA Supreme Court Hands Antis Partial Victory re State Land Drilling). The case dealt with the narrow issue of how PA can spend revenue raised
Read More...Although the national election is still undecided (looking like Biden, a complete disaster), in almost every other respect Republicans (i.e. pro-shale candidates) won, big-time. Republicans gained seats in the U.S. House of Representatives, look to be keeping a majority in the U.S. Senate, and picked up seats in many state legislatures. Leftist Democrats poured BIG
Read More...Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. …. …. The New Fortress export facility is being fought by the Delaware PovertyKeeper because it’s key to so much regarding natural gas. Our buddy, Jim Willis, from Marcellus Drilling News, has an excellent piece explaining so much of why the Delaware PovertyKeeper a/k/a Riverkeeper is so adamantly opposed to
Read More...During the Williams third-quarter 2020 update yesterday, CEO Alan Armstrong shared some very interesting, and relevant (to the Marcellus/Utica) comments. Armstrong said that two important pipeline projects to carry M-U gas to other markets, the Southeastern Trail expansion project and the Leidy South project, are both in the midst of coming online–ahead of schedule.This post
Read More...Last week Pennsylvania issued 16 new shale well drilling permits, and West Virginia issued 7 new shale well permits. Ohio issued no new shale permits last week.This post appeared first on Marcellus Drilling News.
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