In April, West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice, who is pro-coal (because much of his personal fortune comes from coal), took a swipe at shale drillers claiming shale is responsible for the poor condition of roadways in the Mountain State (see WV Gov. Justice Blames Shale for Bad Roads, Wants Higher Taxes). The shale industry begs
Read More...Last year the second biggest coal-producing state in the U.S. produced more natural gas, as measured by energy content, than coal, according to World Oil. Although it’s situated in the Appalachian Basin near the Marcellus and Utica shale plays, West Virginia has been reluctant to transition to natural gas due to coal’s foothold within its
Read More...Listen up landowners in Washington County, OH: For some of you, your shale lease may now be owned by someone else. Pin Oak Energy Partners, a relatively young Marcellus/Utica driller based in Akron, OH, has purchased all of Protégé Energy’s Utica Shale leases (and other assets) located in Washington and Noble counties in Ohio, and
Read More...Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP), being built by Equitrans (formerly EQT Midstream), has just agreed to pay a $265,972 fine and submit a plan of corrective action to West Virginia state regulators to fix storm water runoff caused when building the 303-mile pipeline in the Mountain State. This post appeared first on Marcellus Drilling News.
Read More...The U.S. government sued nearly two dozen of West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice’s coal companies Tuesday to get them to pay roughly $4.8 million in unpaid mine safety fines. The civil lawsuit was filed by federal prosecutors in Virginia on behalf of the U.S. Department of Labor and the Mine Safety and Health Administration, The Associated
Read More...This article is provided FREE for Google searchers. In order to access all content on Marcellus Drilling News, please visit our Subscribe page. click for larger version In 2016, DTE Energy, a BIG utility and midstream company based in Detroit, MI, purchased 100% of M3 Midstream’s Appalachia Gathering System (AGS), located in Pennsylvania and West
Read More...This article is provided FREE for Google searchers. In order to access all content on Marcellus Drilling News, please visit our Subscribe page. Last week the Mountain Valley Pipeline project, being built by Equitrans Midstream, got a boost from the West Virginia Dept. of Environmental Protection (WVDEP). WVDEP has submitted a revised stream/river crossing permit
Read More...Tom ShepstoneNatural Gas NOW … … The recently released FERC State of the Markets Report, 2018″ report is an update on the progress of the shale revolution as it moves forward claiming new territory. The highlights say it all (emphasis added): Natural gas markets experienced record high demand and supply. Natural gas storage fell to
Read More...Jim WillisEditor & Publisher, Marcellus Drilling News (MDN) … Few green organizations descend to the level of depravity when it comes to advancing their cause as the Sierra Club, which is really a job suppression club. We’ve said it before, and we’ll say it again. Groups like the Sierra Club are jobs killers. When was the last
Read More...This article is provided FREE for Google searchers. In order to access all content on Marcellus Drilling News, please visit our Subscribe page. We’ve said it before, and we’ll say it again. Groups like the Sierra Club are jobs killers. When was the last time you heard about a Big Green group actually creating new
Read More...This article is provided FREE for Google searchers. In order to access all content on Marcellus Drilling News, please visit our Subscribe page. Some 15 elected West Virginia officials met on Monday with the Route 2 | I-68 Authority. The aim of the meeting is to move the ball down the field (or the asphalt
Read More...Daniel B. Markind, Esq.Flaster Greenberg PC West Virginia’s Governor vetoed a strong bipartisan supported bill to plug up nearly 4000 abandoned oil and natural gas wells. Why? To support coal? West Virginia Governor Jim Justice made one of the most curious gubernatorial moves in recent years recently, when he vetoed a bill that would have directed
Read More...This article is provided FREE for Google searchers. In order to access all content on Marcellus Drilling News, please visit our Subscribe page. A high school student reporter recently turned in an excellent segment for PBS’ News Hour Weekend program about the job opportunities for young people working on pipelines in West Virginia. Among the
Read More...Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. The Utica Shale has brought $70 billion of investment to Ohio and there’s more to be had. The Utica also underlies most of the Marcellus. Imagine that! When we think Utica Shale, we tend to think Ohio because that’s where the oil and gas industry has put $70 billion
Read More...This article is provided FREE for Google searchers. In order to access all content on Marcellus Drilling News, please visit our Subscribe page. What happened? Just a few weeks ago MDN told you that the West Virginia legislature had passed a bill with bipartisan support (and support from both the drilling industry and surface owners)
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