Enbridge Asks FERC to Start Up Weymouth Compressor in 2 Weeks

Last week Enbridge began testing its Weymouth, Massachusetts compressor station project, the final piece of the company’s $452 million Atlantic Bridge expansion project (see Weymouth, MA Compressor Stn Begins Testing, Coming Online Soon). As sometimes happens when you begin testing, there was a problem. A gasket failure led to an unplanned release of 265 Mcf

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Pipelines Delayed Yield Some of Highest Energy Prices in the Nation

Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. …. ….  Delays, obstruction and cancellations of pipelines in the Northeast for the sake of green virtue signaling are creating high energy prices. That Consumer Energy Alliance (CEA) report illustrating the cost of the pipeline infrastructure war, which we covered a few days ago includes a wonderful section on New

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Pipeline Opponents Will Learn the Worm Always Turns

Craig RuckerExecutive Director, Co-Founder, CFACT … …  [Editor’s Note: Pipeline opponents, funded by mega-rich special interests, have used lawsuits as weapons that can easily and will be used against them.] Fracking (horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing) has unleashed bounties of US oil and natural gas, dramatically reduced energy prices from their historic 2008 peak, saved families

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Shale Gas News – September 5, 2020

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 gas fired power plants, petrochemical plants, Biden fracking and much more last week. The Shale Gas News has grown again to the

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Fed Court Restores Weymouth, MA Compressor Permit – For Now

In early June an Obamadroid federal judge vacated a permit for the Weymouth compressor station, the last piece of Spectra Energy/Enbridge’s Atlantic Bridge pipeline project–a project which took years to build (see Obama Judge Overturns Air Permit for Weymouth, MA Compressor Stn). Even so, Enbridge kept on building the plant (see Weymouth Compressor Continues Construction

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FERC Sides with Energy Transfer Against Chesapeake re Pipe Contract

click for larger version On Sunday, June 28, Chesapeake Energy, with major operations in the northeast Pennsylvania Marcellus, filed for bankruptcy (see Chesapeake Files for Bankruptcy – Debtors to Take Ownership). As part of the filing, the company asked the bankruptcy court to allow it to break existing, legal, enforceable contracts with several pipeline companies,

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Republicans Are Abandoning Upstate New York It Seems

Victor FurmanUpstate New York Landowner, Shale Gas Activist   . … Republicans have essentially abandoned Upstate New York, says Vic Furman, who wants to speak up and stand up to fight for a change. I offer the following open letter to every Upstate New York Republican legislator from a fellow Republican who is disgusted, saddened

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Shale Gas News – August 29, 2020

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 power generation, pipelines, a wastewater patent and much more last week. The Shale Gas News has grown again to the Williamsport area on

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While U.S. Pipelines Face Siege from Extremists, China Moves Ahead

 ... … … [Editor Comment: Pipelines here at home in the U.S. are ever harder to get done as extremist opponents tie them up in courts, but China is moving ahead ever faster.] While pipelines in the United States face increasingly hostile legal challenges, China is seeing the importance of a national oil and natural

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President Underscores Need for New Infrastructure During Permian Visit

The need for new infrastructure and the importance of American energy were the key messages during President Donald Trump’s speech during his visit to  Midland-Odessa, the de facto capital of the Permian Basin. The president was in the world’s largest oilfield to tour an oil rig and speak to constituents about the importance of the

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Wealthy Va. Landowners Consider Next Moves Post-ACP Cancellation

Earlier this month Dominion Energy announced it is throwing in the towel and canceling the 600-mile Atlantic Coast Pipeline (ACP) project that would have stretched from West Virginia to North Carolina. The company also announced it is selling its pipeline business to Warren Buffett (see Dominion Cancels Atlantic Coast Pipe, Sells Pipe Biz for $9.7B).

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A Different View re CNX’s Move to Buy Rest of Pipeline Subsidiary

Yesterday MDN brought you the news that CNX Resources is buying out the balance of what they don’t own in their pipeline subsidiary CNX Midstream (see CNX’s Competitive Advantage: Owning Its Own Pipelines). Our take on the news is that by owning their own pipeline network CNX has a distinct competitive advantage. We heard in

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Plastics Makers Indicate Delaware Valley Opportunity, Despite Naysayers

Garland L. Thompson, Esq.Journalist and Author, Philadelphia Garland Thompson carefully explains the opportunities created by natural gas, plastics makers and the Mariner East despite usual suspect opposition. A Delaware Business Now story on Glasgow-based Polymer Technologies raises interesting implications. If i were to hazard a guess, I’d say Polymer Technologies gets its propylene, polypropylene and

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Transco Extension approved to connect Appalachian Basin to Atlantic Seaboard

Supplies in the Marcellus and Utica shale plays may finally be connected to markets along the Atlantic Seaboard as the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission approved the Williams Leidy South natural gas pipeline project, according to Natural Gas Intelligence. The pipeline is an extension of the Transcontinental Gas Pipeline system and would source gas produced by

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Methane Leaks A Phony Issue When It Comes to These Pipelines

Jim WillisEditor & Publisher, Marcellus Drilling News (MDN) The DOE National Energy Technology Laboratory just did a study of some Appalachian shale gathering pipelines and found no significant methane leaks. It’s such a breath of fresh air (and so rare) when we spot actual, in-the-field, real science being done. So many times the “studies” we see published

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