Oil and Gas and STEM Pioneers Who Happened to Be Women

Kelsey MulacCabot Oil & GasExternal Affairs, Pittsburgh … … Science, technology, engineering and math, four disciplines commonly known as STEM capabilities are the essence of oil and gas and women have been pioneers. For Women’s History Month, we’re highlighting pioneers of science, technology, engineering, and math fields that have always been important to Cabot. The innovators

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Diversified Pays $400M for HG Energy’s Shale Assets in PA, WV

This article is provided FREE for Google searchers. In order to access all content on Marcellus Drilling News, please visit our Subscribe page. Diversified Gas & Oil has been on a mission to buy as many non-shale (conventional) oil and gas wells as it can in the Appalachian Basin. It owns close to 3 million

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Driller for Wells at US Steel Plant Gets Earful from Residents

This article is provided FREE for Google searchers. In order to access all content on Marcellus Drilling News, please visit our Subscribe page. Last night people opposed to drilling a few wells at the U.S. Steel Edgar Thomson Plant in a Pittsburgh suburb turned up to complain that somehow a noisy, air-polluting steel plant will

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Another State, Another Opportunity to Support the NESE Pipeline Project

Connie MellinNatural Gas NOW“PAShaleAdvocate”   There is still time to support the very important NESE pipeline project by submitting your comments to the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection. This week is the last opportunity to support this critical project as it reaches the final stretch of the permitting process. The New Jersey Department of

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So, What Exactly Was This Mariner East Meeting About? Politics?

Kurt KnausSpokesmanPennsylvania Energy Infrastructure Alliance … … Chester and Delaware County politicians held a Mariner East meeting the other day, the only purpose of which seems to have been enhancing their resumes. Several Southeastern Pennsylvania legislators convened a town hall meeting Wednesday night to ensure residents know how to protect their homes and property during

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Imported Steel for Shell Ethane Pipeline Shows Up at Philly Port

This article is provided FREE for Google searchers. In order to access all content on Marcellus Drilling News, please visit our Subscribe page. Shell pipes being unloaded – click for larger version All 97 miles of imported steel pipeline that will be used to construct Shell’s Falcon ethane pipeline project was offloaded at a Philadelphia

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Sunoco Settles Out of Court re ME2 Class Action Lawsuit

This article is provided FREE for Google searchers. In order to access all content on Marcellus Drilling News, please visit our Subscribe page. A lawsuit that began life a year ago, in March 2018, has finally been settled between suburbanite landowners near Philadelphia and Sunoco Logistics Partners over construction activities related to the Mariner East

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PA House Bill to Make DRBC Pay Big Bucks for Drilling Ban Advances

This article is provided FREE for Google searchers. In order to access all content on Marcellus Drilling News, please visit our Subscribe page. Pennsylvania House Bill (HB) 827, which would make a permanent frack ban by the Delaware River Basin Commission (if adopted) a government “taking” or seizure of a citizens’ property liable for compensation,

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Another $3M in PA Grants to Fund 3 Local Marcellus Pipelines

This article is provided FREE for Google searchers. In order to access all content on Marcellus Drilling News, please visit our Subscribe page. Another $3 million in taxpayer-funded grants have just been handed out to three different local pipeline projects under Pennsylvania’s Pipeline Investment Program, or PIPE. Two of the projects are in northeastern PA,

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DRBC Eminent Domain Activity Act Gets Bi-Partisan Committee Approval!

Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc.   Rep. Jonathan Fritz’s DRBC Eminent Domain Activity Act has received a bi-partisan recommendation from the House Environmental Resources and Energy Committee! The DRBC takings bill, has been reintroduced in the Pennsylvania Senate as SB 305, the “Delaware River Basin Commission Eminent Domain Activity Act.” The same bill was also

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Another Pipe Builder Plays Dirty – Liens on Lancaster Landowners

This article is provided FREE for Google searchers. In order to access all content on Marcellus Drilling News, please visit our Subscribe page. This stuff makes us angry. Just yesterday we told you about a contractor using the sleazy tactic of filing “mechanic’s liens” against landowners in western New York State because of a payment

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Range Resources Considers Drilling Under Washington, PA Airport

This article is provided FREE for Google searchers. In order to access all content on Marcellus Drilling News, please visit our Subscribe page. Washington County, PA Airport (click for larger version) In 2013 CONSOL Energy (now CNX Resources) signed a deal with the Pittsburgh International Airport and Allegheny County to lease 9,000 acres surrounding the

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Shameful PA Lawmakers Rally to Shut Down Safely Operating ME Pipes

This article is provided FREE for Google searchers. In order to access all content on Marcellus Drilling News, please visit our Subscribe page. China’s Chairman Mao – patron saint of antis Yesterday was a sad day in Harrisburg, PA. A group of virulent anti-fossil fuelers (maybe 200 or so) attended a staged rally where several

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The Delaware River Basin Commission Eminent Domain Activity Act

Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc.   Thanks to Rep. Jonathan Fritz, the PA House Environmental Resources and Energy Committee is now also considering the DRBC Eminent Domain Activity Act. As we told our readers last month, Senator Lisa Baker’s DRBC takings bill, has been reintroduced as SB 305, the “Delaware River Basin Commission Eminent Domain

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What Natural Gas Brings to the Electric Generation Marketplace

Kelsey MulacCabot Oil & GasExternal Affairs, Pittsburgh … … Natural gas is the big performer in electric generation as the Pennsylvania Manufacturers Association demonstrates with a new video about the subject. Produced by The Pennsylvania Manufacturer’s Association (PMA), the newest PMA Perspective entitled “Electric Generation on the Competetive Marketplace”, features David Taylor as he travels to York County to

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