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Latest facts and rumors from the Marcellus, Utica, Permian, and Eagle Ford Plays
Drilling on Federal Land Last Information. Haaland offers clues on Interior’s next steps on energy. E&E News. Interior leadership, including Secretary Deb Haaland, downplayed the likelihood of a dramatic abandonment of federal oil and gas drilling during a wide-ranging forum yesterday that explored other possible changes to the program like royalty increases, plugging orphaned wells and curbing pollution in marginalized communities. The Interior Department manages millions of acres of public lands, as well as the minerals like crude oil and natural gas that lie beneath them.
FERC Support MVP. FERC rejects bid to halt Mountain Valley construction. The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission yesterday denied a bid to stop construction on parts of the embattled Mountain Valley pipeline, despite a stern rebuke from the agency’s two Democratic members. Mountain Valley “lacks the federal authorizations required to cross over 700 waterbodies and wetlands along the project route,” FERC Chair Richard Glick and Commissioner Allison Clements, both Democrats, wrote in their dissent.
PA Supreme Court Supports Frackers. Gas drilling firms repel Pennsylvania’s antitrust lawsuit. Pennsylvania’s highest court has delivered a victory for natural gas exploration firms, ruling that the state attorney general’s office doesn’t have authority under state law to sue them on consumer protection grounds over their mineral rights-leasing practices. The lawsuit by the attorney general’s office included an antitrust action under state law, and had attracted the close attention of major business groups in Pennsylvania, the nation’s No. 2 gas-producing state thanks to a decade of drilling in the prolific Marcellus Shale reservoir.
TX Activity Definitely Picking Up. Oil, gas activity improving dramatically in Permian and beyond, says Dallas Fed. Oil and natural gas activity sharply expanded during the first three months of the year in Texas, New Mexico and Louisiana, according to a survey by the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas. Every quarter the Dallas Fed, as it is better known, surveys executives of exploration and production (E&P) firms and oilfield services (OFS) companies headquartered in the Eleventh District. The district, which covers all of Texas, northern Louisiana and most of New Mexico, is home to the Permian Basin, Eagle Ford and Haynesville shales.
API Supports Carbon Tax. API endorses a carbon price. The American Petroleum Institute (API) has reversed its long-held opposition to putting a price on carbon emissions, endorsing the approach among other measures that the leading US oil and natural gas industry group says will address the risks of climate change while meeting global energy needs. The Interior’s leasing pause is being challenged by 14 oil and gas producing states. “Production of oil and natural gas from these areas are an important part of the nation’s energy portfolio and will be key to ensuring the US remains a key player in the worldwide energy picture,” Independent Petroleum Association of America president Barry Russell said at the Interior forum today.
LOLA Buys EdgeMarc’s Shale Assets. LOLA Energy III, LLC (“LOLA Energy”) today announced that it has recently closed on an acquisition of 100% of the equity membership interests of EdgeMarc an exploration and production company with operations in Butler County, PA (the “acquired company”). Financial and other terms and conditions of the sale are confidential among the parties to the transaction. The acquired company immediately changed its name to LOLA Energy PetroCo, LLC to rebrand as a LOLA Energy owned and operated company.
The acquired company’s assets and operations include:
- Approximately 22,000 net mineral acres of oil and gas leases in the natural gas liquids rich window of the Marcellus and Burkett shale plays in Butler County, Pennsylvania;
- 48 proved developed producing horizontal oil and gas wells with over 300,000 feet of completed pay and current production of approximately 85 MMcfe/day, with multiple wells choked back and/or curtailed as the Revolution Pipeline owned by ETC Northeast Pipeline LLC, a subsidiary of Energy Transfer LP (NYSE: ET), began recommissioning operations earlier this month;
- 18 drilled and uncompleted horizontal oil and gas wells and 4 top set planned horizontal oil and gas wells; and
- An extensive water system, including a water pump station, water tanks and impoundment, and a 30+ mile water line transfer network.
- The production and reserves benefit from a high concentration of natural gas liquids. The gas composition mix is approximately
National Fuel’s Gets Approval for Northern Access Pipeline. (Thank you, MDN) The final hurdle for National Fuel Gas Company’s (NFG) Northern Access Pipeline as it travels through New York State has fallen. Yesterday the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ruled that yes, New York (according to federal guidelines) waived its right to grant a Section 401 water crossing permit under the federal Clean Water Act when NY declined to rule on the permit application within one calendar year. That means NFG can now proceed with the project, although the company previously said they would not begin to build until 2022.
PA’s Petrochemical Credits Not Being Promoted. (Thanks, MDN) In a very gentle and diplomatic way, Pennsylvania State Senator John Yudichak (Independent from Wilkes-Barre) told Department of Community & Economic Development (DCED) Secretary Dennis Davin on Monday he’s not doing his job. Yudichak told Davin “site selectors” (people who work with companies to select sites for big manufacturing and other types of facilities across the U.S.) aren’t aware of the tax credits available as part of Act 66, a law passed last year aimed at building new petrochemical plants in PA.
Hydrogen Pipeline. (Thanks, MDN) A monstrously huge, 1,200-mile pipeline has been announced by a joint venture between Valero, BlackRock, and Navigator Energy Services. The new greenfield pipeline is planned for the Midwest, spanning five states, and will flow carbon dioxide (CO2), storing it at a site in Illinois.
Shaler Drillers Getting Funding. Raising money has become a lot easier for shale companies. It hasn’t been this cheap for shale explorers to raise money on the high-yield bond market since oil was at $100 a barrel in 2014, so they’re jumping on the opportunity to refinance debt at lower rates. Drillers have already sold $11 billion in new junk-rated energy debt through the first 10 weeks of the year, and this quarter is shaping up to be the busiest in at least half a decade, according to Bloomberg Intelligence.
Court Supports FERC in NY. Could NESE Pipeline Be Resurrected? Court backs FERC pipeline permit after N.Y. challenge. E&E News. A federal appeals court found New York state regulators waived their right to authorize a water quality permit for the Northern Access natural gas pipeline, rejecting claims that the state had met a one-year deadline to act. The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals disagreed with the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) and the Sierra Club that the state had acted inside the legal timeline set by Congress to assess an interstate pipeline project.
TX Wants to Outlaw NatGas Bans. California cities banned natural gas in new buildings. Texas wants to outlaw those bans. Texas lawmakers are quickly moving a bill forward that attempts to stop cities from banning natural gas as a fuel source for new construction and utility services — a trend in progressive California cities that some state lawmakers say would restrict consumer choices if Texas cities move to do the same. At least a dozen similar bills have been filed in states including Kansas, Minnesota and Ohio
Oxy Considering West Texas Carbon Capture Project. Occidental Petroleum eyes West Texas for largest-of-its-kind carbon capture project. A joint venture subsidiary under Houston-based Occidental Petroleum Corp. is considering a project to build a direct-air carbon capture plant in West Texas. The joint venture, called 1PointFive, would site the project in Ector County, according to a tax incentive application. If the project moves forward as described in the application, work would start in the second quarter. The construction phase would require 1,000 workers at its peak. The company would target the final quarter of 2024 for commercial operations and hire at least 25 full-time employees, paid at least $50,000 annually each.
FERC Getting Tough with State DEP’s. (Thank you, MDN) The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) is finally making official what has, until now, been unofficial (but enforceable via court orders): State environmental agencies have exactly one year to either grant or reject issuing a Clean Water Act Section (CWA) 401 permit for pipelines (and other federal projects) to cross rivers and streams and wetlands. A final rule is now drafted and 90 days after it’s published in the Federal Register the rule will be in place and enforceable.
Eagle Ford Bouncing Back? South Texas Drilling Permit Roundup: Is the Eagle Ford bouncing back? The Eagle Ford Shale added three rigs last week and saw a slew of permitting for its most active oil-producing county. The South Texas shale play saw its single largest weekly rig increase since December, when it went from 23 to 26 rigs in a single week, according to data collected by Baker Hughes Inc. There were 32 oil and gas rigs waiting to drill in the play by the end of last week. The count had been stuck at 29 rigs for weeks.
Ovintiv Selling Eagle Ford. Oil producer Ovintiv to sell Eagle Ford assets for $880 million. Reuters. Debt-ridden Ovintiv Inc said it will sell its Eagle Ford assets in Texas to Validus Energy for $880 million, as the oil and gas producer seeks to shore up its finances following a tumultuous year for the energy industry. Ovintiv moved its headquarters from Canada to the United States in 2020 in the hopes of better access to capital.
PA Permit March 18, to March 25 2021
County Township E&P Companies
- Washington East Finley CNX
OH Permits March 18, to March 25, 2021
County Township E&P Companies
- Jefferson Springfield EAP OHIO
- Jefferson Springfield EAP OHIO
- Jefferson Springfield EAP OHIO
- Jefferson Springfield EAP OHIO
- Jefferson Salem EAP OHIO
- Jefferson Salem EAP OHIO
- Jefferson Salem EAP OHIO
WV Permits March 15, to March 19, 2021
- Lewis H G Energy
- Lewis H G Energy
- Lewis H G Energy
- Marshall Tug Hill
- Marshall Tug Hill
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- Marshall Tug Hill
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