Wow! What a difference two years can make. At the dawn of the pandemic, the share price for publicly traded… Continue reading The post Marcellus/Utica Drillers Reimburse Stockholders as Cash Piles Up first appeared on Marcellus Drilling News. This post appeared first on Marcellus Drilling News.
Read More...Not all that long ago Cabot Oil & Gas (now Coterra Energy), Southwestern Energy, BKV Corporation, and Diversified Energy were… Continue reading The post Range Resources Remains Focused on M-U, Not Looking at Other Plays first appeared on Marcellus Drilling News. This post appeared first on Marcellus Drilling News.
Read More...Last week, for June 20-26, the number of new permits issued to drill in the Marcellus/Utica decreased just a bit… Continue reading The post 29 New Shale Well Permits Issued for PA-OH-WV Jun 20-26 first appeared on Marcellus Drilling News. This post appeared first on Marcellus Drilling News.
Read More...Two weeks ago a pathetically low six new permits were issued to drill shale wells across Pennsylvania, Ohio, and West… Continue reading The post 20 New Shale Well Permits Issued for PA-OH-WV May 30-Jun 5 first appeared on Marcellus Drilling News. This post appeared first on Marcellus Drilling News.
Read More...Range Resources issued its fourth-quarter and full-year 2020 update yesterday. Range was the very first driller to sink a Marcellus well, back in 2004. The company currently owns ~460,000 acres in the M-U, most of it in the “wet gas” region which produces higher-profit NGLs. Range made $38 million in net profit during 4Q20, but
Read More...The Pennsylvania Dept. of Environmental Protection (DEP) is once again spinning an error by a major Marcellus driller, Range Resources, as some sort of evil plot to avoid and defraud the DEP. Due to a mistake by a former employee, Range misclassified 42 old conventional wells on acreage it owns and did not plug the
Read More...All three M-U states received permits to drill new shale wells last week. Pennsylvania received 22 new permits. Ohio received 2 new permits. And West Virginia received 8 new permits.This post appeared first on Marcellus Drilling News.
Read More...In a pair of announcements earlier this week, U.S. Well Services announced it has signed new long-term deals with both Range Resources and EQT to supply “electric fracking” services. We told you in February 2020 that Range had signed on with U.S. Well Services to continue using its electric fracking service (see Range Resources Converts
Read More...click for larger version On Wednesday, Hart Energy held its annual DUG (Developing Unconventional Gas) East event. This year the event was virtual instead of in-person at the convention center in Pittsburgh. One acronym seemed to be on the lips of nearly every speaker at this year’s event: ESG, which stands for “environment, social, governance.”
Read More...Last week Pennsylvania issued 12 new shale well drilling permits with a mix of permits issued in both the southwest (wet gas) and northeast (dry gas) regions of the state. Ohio issued 7 new permits, all of them except one in the same county (Jefferson). West Virginia was a goose egg–no new permits issued last
Read More...An article in yesterday’s Wall Street Journal says there is a “split reality” emerging for U.S. shale drillers. Shale oil drillers are struggling to survive, while shale gas drillers, particularly in the Marcellus/Utica, are slowly seeing signs of financial recovery. The upshot is that you should consider investing in shale gas drillers (and not shale
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.
Read More...Earlier this week we brought you a post exploring whether or not PTT Global Chemical will, in the end, actually build a $10 billion ethane cracker plant in Belmont County, Ohio (see Is PTT Going to Build a Cracker in Belmont County, OH…or Not?). Yesterday gave us one more strong signal for the “yes they
Read More...Last week Ohio finally broke the drought of not issuing permits for new shale wells in the Buckeye State. Finally! Last week Pennsylvania issued 13 new permits for wells on three well pads. Ohio issued 4 new permits for wells on two well pads. And West Virginia issued 1 new permit.This post appeared first on
Read More...Richard Weber, CEO of PennEnergy Yesterday the U.S. Dept. of Energy hosted a virtual 2020 Natural Gas Summit in Washington, D.C. DOE Secretary Dan Brouillette and Director of the White House National Economic Council Larry Kudlow were the two hosts and speaker/moderators. However, at least two prominent Marcellus/Utica driller CEOs participated, including Richard Weber from
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