- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- January 24, 2020
Enterprise begins service at East Texas gas processor
Enterprise Products Partners said Thursday it’s begun operations at its new Bulldog cryogenic natural gas processing plant (previously known as the Panola 3 gas plant) in Panola County, East Texas.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- January 24, 2020
Virginia AG files Supreme Court brief opposing ACP
Virginia attorney general Mark Herring this week filed a brief in the Atlantic Coast Pipeline (ACP) natural gas line case at the U.S.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- January 23, 2020
Frivolous Lawsuits Threaten Flourishing Texas Energy
Several Texas cities have joined the likes of New York, California, Hawaii and Massachusetts in bringing forth frivolous lawsuits intended to stymie the oil and natural gas industry and prevent energy projects from moving forward.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- January 23, 2020
The Pillars of Your Climate Rhetoric Are Rotten and Don’t Hold Up
Stephen HeinsEnergy Consultant, Business Writer and Practical Environmentalist“The Word Merchant” … A recent article about reasons people deny global warming are extremist climate rhetoric that simply don’t hold up when they are examined with common sense.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- January 23, 2020
Philadelphia Gets What It Wished, But Not Exactly; Green Virtue Gone Bad
Kurt Knaus SpokesmanPennsylvania Energy Infrastructure Alliance … … Philadelphia City Council apparently gets its wish, sort of, but loses all the jobs, the green bragging rights and the opportunity to be the next Houston.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- January 23, 2020
BP pulls out of Iraq’s Kirkuk field as expansion plans stall
BP has pulled out of Iraq’s giant Kirkuk oilfield after its $100 million exploration contract expired with no agreement on the field’s expansion, three sources told Reuters.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- January 23, 2020
Baker Hughes reports profit drop, preparing for energy switch
U.S.-based oilfield services firm Baker Hughes expects slow but real growth in the oilfield in 2020. Long-term, however, the company plans to leverage the global focus shift from fossil fuels to renewables to stay relevant, reports Kallanish, sister publication of Kallanish Energy.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- January 23, 2020
Phillips 66 backs out of renewable diesel project
Refiner/marketer Phillips 66 has canceled plans with joint venture partner and clean fuel producer Renewable Energy Group (REG) to build a renewable diesel plant in Washington state, Kallanish Energy reports.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- January 22, 2020
Germany’s Energy Transition Makes Room for American LNG
Germany is in the midst of a seismic energy transition. Already in the process of shuttering all its remaining nuclear reactors by 2022, the government is now officially committed to phasing out all of Germany’s coal-fired power stations by 2038.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- January 22, 2020
CO2 Emissions Expected to Decline Yet Again. Thank Natural Gas.
Tom Shepstone Shepstone Management Company, Inc. . … CO2 emissions are expected by the Energy Information Administration to decline again for the next two years as a result of shifts to natural gas use. Here’s the short but beautiful story from EIA: In its latest Short-Term Energy Outlook (STEO), released on January 14, the U.S.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- January 22, 2020
Energy & Blue Collar Boom: Trump Lays It Out at World Economic Forum
Tom Shepstone Shepstone Management Company, Inc. …. …. President Trump spoke to the World Economic Forum and laid out the facts of our energy and blue collar booms, dispensing with despair in favor of hope.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- January 22, 2020
US natural gas production growth slows in latest DPR
Natural gas production growth in the U.S.’s seven most productive basins/plays won’t break 100 million cubic feet per day from January to February, according to the January Drilling Productivity Report, produced by the Energy Information Administration.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- January 22, 2020
US crude production inches up in new survey
The newest evidence oil and gas production is slowing across the U.S. came Tuesday from the Energy Information Administration. Crude oil production from the U.S.’s- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- January 22, 2020
Oil market discounts Libya crisis amid ample global supply
Crude oil prices fell Tuesday on expectations a well-supplied global market, including supplies from record U.S. production, would be able to absorb disruptions that have substantially cut Libya’s crude production.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- January 21, 2020
Fact Sheet: Texas Natural Gas Pipeline Safety
Texas is currently experiencing unprecedented natural gas production, accounting for a quarter of the country’s natural gas output. However, without the necessary buildout of pipeline infrastructure, Texas’ abundant natural gas, and its many economic and environmental benefits, would go unrealized.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- January 21, 2020
Canadian Energy Weekly Round-Up: January 21
Here are the top news stories covering Canada’s energy landscape: Activists Push for Divestment at Canadian Universities, McGill Pushes Back Recent reports have found that not only does divesting from fossil fuels not decrease demand for hydrocarbons, but the effort could increase students’ tuition.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- January 21, 2020
Climate Serfdom Is No Future, It’s the Road to Destruction
Robert Bradley, Jr. Founder and CEO of the Institute for Energy ResearchPrincipal, MasterResource: A Free-Market Energy Blog.. .… … Climate serfdom is what is being proposed by those who would make us solely dependent on renewables for our energy, but that’s what some want politically.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- January 21, 2020
RGGI Ploy Earns Trust-Funder Tom Wolf Title of “Rogue Governor”
Jim Willis Editor & Publisher, Marcellus Drilling News (MDN) Rep. Daryl Metcalfe, an outspoken defender of common sense and reason on issues of energy and the environment calls out Tom Wolf as “rogue governor” on RGGI.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- January 21, 2020
Crude rises as Libyan oilfields shut down
Crude oil prices rose to their highest level in more than week Monday after two large crude production bases in Libya began shutting down amid a military blockade, risking reducing crude flows from the Opec member.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- January 21, 2020
Wind energy giant Vestas planning ‘zero-waste’ turbines
Danish firm Vestas said Monday it’s working to produce “zero-waste” wind turbines by the year 2040, Kallanish Energy reports. The wind turbine manufacturer said its goal would mean operating a value chain that produced no waste materials. This,- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- January 21, 2020
Sinopec to review potential $16B Cheniere deal: sources
China’s Sinopec is planning to review terms of a potential $16 billion liquefied natural gas supply deal with Cheniere Energy, industry officials told Reuters.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- January 20, 2020
Activists Want Less Flaring but Continue to Fight Pipelines
Despite all of the rhetoric to the contrary, the need to reduce global emissions is something the oil and natural gas industry and environmental activists alike agree on.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- January 20, 2020
Farm Show Livestock Exhibitors Get A Big Boost from Cabot
Rick Hiduk Managing Editor of EndlessMtnLifestyles.com … … Cabot Oil & Gas Corporation happily supported local farm livestock exhibitors at the auction held at the Pennsylvania Farm Show this year in Harrisburg.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- January 20, 2020
Don’t Let an Outage Keep You From Business
Akron, OH – April 22, 2019 It’s that season where internet outages become more prevalent and because internet plays an integral role in your daily business operations even a short outage can have a huge impact.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- January 20, 2020
CWi Streamlines Essential Communications
Akron, OH – February 21, 2019 Two connections, one provider – that’s what you get with Skycasters’ CWi (Converged Wireless Internet).- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- January 20, 2020
Communication Solutions For the Oil & Gas Industry
Akron, OH – April 5, 2019 We know the importance of a great connection. When you work in the oil, gas and mining industries you know that land-based communications are not always reliable or practical due to challenging conditions and changing locations.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- January 20, 2020
Josh Fox Loses It, Flails About and Retreats to Gas Heated WowHaus
Tom Shepstone Shepstone Management Company, Inc. . … Josh Fox has gone off the rails. He has been yanked from the Public Theater for failing to follow their rules of conduct and is now back at his WowHaus.Shale Gas News – January 18, 2020
Bill desRosiers External Affairs Coordinator, Cabot Oil & Gas … … The Shale Gas News, heard every Saturday at 10 AM on 94.3Working-rig count climbs by baker’s dozen
In the last two working-rig surveys, the number of rigs working onshore in the Lower 48 U.S. states has fallen by 13 and,in the latest survey, risen by the same number – the biggest one-week positive move since a 17-rig jump recorded the week ended April 5, 2019.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- January 20, 2020
Freeport LNG’s Train 2 begins commercial operations
Freeport LNG’s Train 2 has started commercial operations, Kallanish Energy reports. That announcement of the initial LNG deliveries to BP under a 20-year tolling agreement came last Friday. Freeport- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- January 20, 2020
Shell, CNOOC mull new chemical plant in China
Royal Dutch Shell has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with CNOOC to build a chemical plant in Huizhou, in south China, Kallanish Energy reports.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- January 18, 2020
Rail Makes Perfect Sense for Shipping LNG, Despite Some Slick Lawyers
Johnny Williams Bradford County Writer State governments need to get all aboard with LNG by rail if America is to continue its resurgence in energy and maintain its energy independence.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- January 18, 2020
Natural Gas Now Best Picks of the Week – January 18, 2020
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.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- January 17, 2020
Colorado House Speaker “Declines To Endorse New Ballot Measures” From Activist Group
“Keep It In the Ground” activist group Colorado Rising was apparently dealt a huge blow today when State House Speaker KC Becker refused to back its latest ballot initiative that would effectively ban oil and natural gas development, according to exclusive reporting from The Colorado Sun.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- January 17, 2020
Texas Oil and Gas Industry Breaks Historical Records, Fills State Coffers
Texas’ oil and natural gas industry paid an unprecedented $16.3 billion in state and local taxes and royalties in 2019, thanks to record high production.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- January 17, 2020
Oil Industry Sets New Record With $3.1 Billion In Revenue For 2019 New Mexico Budget
Public schools, highways, and healthcare in New Mexico can expect to see more funding in 2020, thanks to the oil and gas industry.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- January 17, 2020
Facts & Rumors Newsletter #364 January 18, 2020
Shale Directories Conferences 8th Annual Utica Midstream March 19, 2020 Walsh University North Canton, OH www.uticasummit.com 8th Annual Upstream PA 2020 April 16, 2020 Toftrees Resort State College, PA 4th Annual Appalachian Storage Hub Conference June 4, 2020 Hilton Garden Inn Southpointe, Canonsburg, PA 8th Annual Utica Downstream October 15, 2020 Walsh University North Canton, OH 8th Annual Midstream PA 2020 November 12, 2020 Toftrees Resort State College, PA 2nd Annual Appalachian Basin Real Estate Conference December 10, 2020 Oglebay Resort Wheeling, WV Latest facts and a rumor from the Marcellus, Utica, and Permian, Eagle Ford Plays Toby Rice Making Moves at EQT – Low NatGas Prices.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- January 17, 2020
PA regulator approves sale of LDC to Aqua America Inc. in $5.58B deal
The Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission Thursday approved a settlement that smooths the way for water/sewer company Aqua America’s $5.58 billion buy of local distribution company Peoples Gas, Kallanish Energy reports.Natural Gas Works and That’s No Fiction, However You Read It!
Richard Downey Unatego Area Landowners Association Natural gas is the solution. It works. Nothing advanced by the purveyors of supposed fossil fuel fiction changes that.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- January 17, 2020
Greta Thunberg Unaccountably Gives Herself A Swenglish Pass
Bob Tomaine Independent Journalist Greta Thunberg may be a most annoying child but she already knows how to avoid accountability and lord it over the rest of us as one of privilege.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- January 17, 2020
Citi believes there’s an ‘ultimate cap’ on oil prices
The cost of producing electricity from solar energy in the last two years has been lower than that of fossil fuels — and that “permanent change” will limit how high oil prices can climb, according to Citibank, Kallanish Energy understands.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- January 17, 2020
Enbridge Gas holding open season for storage at Dawn Hub
Enbridge Gas is holding a binding open season for up to 1 billion cubic feet (Bcf) of peak storage service at the Dawn Hub storage facility in Ontario, beginning as early as April 1, 2020, Kallanish Energy reports.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- January 16, 2020
Global Warming Theology Is the Enemy of Climate Science and Reason
Tom Shepstone Shepstone Management Company, Inc. . … Global warming theology is now consuming every bit of air in discussions of the matter of climate and politics leaving no place for real science or reason.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- January 16, 2020
Shale Directories Announces Upstream and Midstream Conferences
8th Annual Utica Midstream and 8th Annual Upstream PA Penn Valley, Pa. (January 21, 2020)–Shale Directories, LLC announces its first two conferences of 2020.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- January 16, 2020
EVX Midstream begins Phase II construction in the Eagle Ford
EVX Midstream Partners Wednesday announced it’s initiated Phase II construction on its water gathering systems in the Eagle Ford Shale play, Kallanish Energy reports.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- January 16, 2020
Fill a Glass with Hope Campaign Provides Fresh Milk to Families in Need
Rick Hiduk Managing Editor of EndlessMtnLifestyles.com … … Cabot Oil & Gas Corporation was again a major contributor to the Fill a Glass With Hope campaign, one of five Keystone Sponsors to give $25,000 to the cause.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- January 16, 2020
Oil down slightly after US-China trade deal, US product build
Crude oil prices were down slightly Wednesday, pressured early by data showing big increases in U.S. refined products, Kallanish Energy reports.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- January 16, 2020
GM bids to buy land for new Ohio battery factory
General Motors wants to build a new $2.3 billion battery factory in Lordstown, Ohio, adjacent to its former car assembly plant that it shuttered and sold in 2019, Kallanish Energy learns.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- January 15, 2020
Residents, Businesses Would Pay Big Under Bellingham’s Proposed Natural Gas Ban
“Keep It In the Ground” activists have begun to focus on limiting demand for natural gas in their efforts to stop its production.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- January 15, 2020
Group Intervenes in New York’s Exxon Case, Seeking Communications with Activists
A new motion to intervene filed in the New York attorney general’s lawsuit against ExxonMobil attempts to unseal documents that could pull back the curtain on “machinations” between the attorney general and Matt Pawa, a climate activist and plaintiffs’ attorney who has met with several state attorneys general to encourage them to sue ExxonMobil.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- January 15, 2020
BOMBSHELL: Rockefeller Family Fund Behind The “Pay Up Climate Polluters” Campaign
In 2017, the Rockefeller Family Fund (RFF) gave the Institute for Governance & Sustainable Development (IGSD) over $1 million to launch an aggressive climate litigation campaign against America’s top energy producers, according to a new Energy In Depth analysis of New York state tax disclosures.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- January 15, 2020
Proved Natural Gas Reserves Grow by 14.2 Trillion Cubic Feet in PA!
Tom Shepstone Shepstone Management Company, Inc. . … Pennsylvania natural gas reserves grew by an astounding 14.2 trillion cubic feet in 2018 demonstrating the amazing bounty of the shale revolution.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- January 15, 2020
Williams Companies Sponsors Farm Show Draft Horse Hitch and Ride
Rick Hiduk Managing Editor of EndlessMtnLifestyles.com … … The Pennsylvania Farm Show is a great place to see draft horses at work and Williams Companies, the pipeline folks, sponsored a draft horse hitch and ride.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- January 15, 2020
Global oil markets continue to remain roughly balanced
Global oil markets were roughly balanced in 2019, as oil supply declined slightly and global oil consumption grew at its slowest pace since 2011, the Energy Information Administration reported Tuesday in the January Short-Term Energy Outlook (STEO).- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- January 15, 2020
Oil snaps five day losing streak as Street eyes US-China trade deal
Crude oil prices climbed Tuesday after five days of declines, as the U.S. and China prepare to sign a “Phase 1” trade deal today, and as Middle East tensions eased, Kallanish Energy reports.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- January 14, 2020
PennEast Pipeline Still Under Attack from William Penn Foundation Shills
Jim Willis Editor & Publisher, Marcellus Drilling News (MDN) The William Penn Foundation has funded, to the tune of $6 million, three groups who are doing politics through legal harassment of the PennEast Pipeline.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- January 14, 2020
Nat gas prices in 2019 lowest in three years: EIA
In 2019, natural gas spot prices at the national benchmark Henry Hub in Louisiana averaged $2.57 per million British thermal units (MmBtu), roughly 60 cents/MmBtu lower than in 2018 — the lowest annual average price since 2016, Kallanish Energy reports.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- January 14, 2020
Pennsylvania Royalty Income to Landowners Well Over $8 Billion!
Tom Shepstone Shepstone Management Company, Inc. . … Pennsylvania royalty income to landowners conservatively topped $8 billion between 2010 and 2017, according the Commonwealth’s Independent Fiscal Office.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- January 14, 2020