Pipelines

Marcellus/Utica Heading for Another Pipeline Shortage – Part 2

Last week MDN brought you Part 1 of a series on the coming crisis in lack of pipeline capacity serving the Marcellus/Utica region (see Marcellus/Utica Heading for Another Pipeline Shortage). While the crisis isn’t fully here yet, it is on the way according to the expert analysts at RBN Energy. Today we have Part 2

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Shale Gas News – January 30, 2021

Bill desRosiersExternal Affairs Coordinator, Cabot Oil & Gas … … The Shale Gas News, heard every Saturday at 10 AM on 94.3 FM, 1510 AM, 1600 AM, 104.1 FM and Sundays on YesFM, talked about electric fracking, Biden frack ban, Shell Cracker and much more last week. The Shale Gas News has grown again to the Williamsport

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Natural Gas Now Best Picks of the Week – January 30, 2021

Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … … 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. The Cuomo Coverup: Is There FinallySome Justice for Victims of Gov. Cuorupptocrat? New York Southern Tier residents learned who Andrew Cuomo

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Down to Earth Means Lifting An Economy Spurred by Natural Gas

Bill desRosiersExternal Affairs Coordinator, Cabot Oil & Gas … … [Editor’s Note: Down to Earth is a company; a contractor benefitting from the shale revolution and helping it along with its supply chain services.] This month’s contractor spotlight shines on Down to Earth Equipment Rentals. We started working with them almost as soon as we arrived in

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NextEra Energy Writes Down $1.2B for Mountain Valley Pipeline

The world’s largest producer of wind and solar energy, NextEra Energy, also happens to be a major investor in the 303-mile Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP) project. On Tuesday NextEra announced it recorded a loss in fourth-quarter 2020, mainly because of a $1.2 billion write down on its investment in MVP. But have no fear, “write

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Maryland Bd of Public Works Approves Wetlands Permit for Gas Pipe

In December, the Maryland Board of Public Works (BPW), which has three members (two leftwing Democrats and RINO Gov. Larry Hogan), surprisingly approved a 10-inch, 6.83-mile pipeline for the Maryland portion of a 19+ mile project called the Del-Mar Energy Pathway Project, crossing both Delaware and Maryland (see Maryland Board of Public Works Approves Tiny

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NatGas Prices in Boston, NYC Double in One Day, Electric Up 55%

click for larger version Although a true polar vortex has not yet visited the northeastern U.S. as previously predicted, temperatures in the northeast have fallen and are forecast to be the lowest so far this winter in the next few days. Due to lack of natural gas pipelines to New York and New England, the

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New Strategy for Pipe Cos. – Buy Existing Pipes Rather than Build

U.S. pipeline companies are under no illusion of just how bad the next four years will be for their business, at least for building new pipelines. We told you last week that Williams CEO Alan Armstrong predicted there will be no new greenfield pipelines built during the Biden administration (see Williams CEO Alan Armstrong Says

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Weymouth, MA Compressor Station Now Online – Will it Stay Online?

Finally! The Weymouth compressor station, the final piece of the $452 million Atlantic Bridge expansion project that has been years in the making, is either now online and flowing gas, or will be within a day or two at most. However, given a vote last week by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) questioning whether

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Liens Served on PA/OH Landowner Property re Risberg Pipeline

click for larger version In March 2019 MDN brought you the news that Wood Group had been awarded a $34 million contract to build 28 miles of the 60-mile Risberg Pipeline from Crawford County, PA to Ashtabula County, OH (see Wood Wins $34M Contract to Build PA to OH Risberg Pipeline). The portion Wood built

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Maryland Bd of Public Works Considers Wetlands Permit for Gas Pipe

In December, the Maryland Board of Public Works (BPW), which has three members (two leftwing Democrats and RINO Gov. Larry Hogan), surprisingly approved a 10-inch, 6.83-mile pipeline for the Maryland portion of a 19+ mile project called the Del-Mar Energy Pathway Project, crossing both Delaware and Maryland (see Maryland Board of Public Works Approves Tiny

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Shale Gas News – January 23, 2021

Bill desRosiersExternal Affairs Coordinator, Cabot Oil & Gas … … The Shale Gas News, heard every Saturday at 10 AM on 94.3 FM, 1510 AM, 1600 AM, 104.1 FM and Sundays on YesFM, talked about Keystone XL Pipeline, Russian LNG, Biden energy policy and much more last week. The Shale Gas News has grown again to the

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Natural Gas Now Best Picks of the Week – January 23, 2021

Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … … 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. Biden Talks Unity, Sows Division, Take Orders by Earphone Joe Biden started off with a speech promoting unity and promptly signed

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Biden’s executive order will likely kibosh Keystone XL project

The long-contested Keystone XL Pipeline may be reaching the end of its battle with President Joe Biden’s recent decision to revoke a permit for the project, according to The Wall Street Journal. The project’s saga spans more than 12 years, facing judgment from the last three U.S. presidential administrations. The Keystone XL is an expansion

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