- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- June 25, 2019
Arlp acquiring Permian O&G mineral interests for $145M
Alliance Resource Partners LP (Arlp) Monday announced it’s acquiring oil and gas mineral interests from Wing Resources LLC and Wing Resources II LLC for $145 million in cash, Kallanish Energy reports.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- June 25, 2019
Former EQT CEO scolds his industry big time
PITTSBURGH – That sharp “whack” you heard coming from this city’s David L. Lawrence Convention Center last Friday was one of the oil and gas industry’s own smacking the industry upside its collective head.Shale Gas News – June 22, 2019
Bill desRosiers External Affairs Coordinator, Cabot Oil & Gas … … The Shale Gas News, heard every Saturday at 10 AM on 94.3 FM, 1510 AM and Sundays on YesFM, talked about virtual pipelines, New York electric rates, LOLA Energy and much more last week.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- June 24, 2019
$1.2B West Virginia coal-to-liquids plant announced
A West Virginia company last week announced plans for a $1.2 billion coal-to-liquids plant to be built in Mason County, West Virginia, Kallanish Energy learns.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- June 23, 2019
Take Notice DRBC: “Sue Me” Approach to the Takings Clause Is Untenable.
Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … … The U.S. Supreme Court has issued an opinion making it easier to go to Federal court for relief under the Takings Clause.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- June 22, 2019
The Despicable Attempt to Tie Childhood Cancer to SWPA Fracking
Jim Willis Editor & Publisher, Marcellus Drilling News (MDN) Childhood cancer is an awful thing but even worse are the con artists who attempt to exploit for anti-gas ideological purposes.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- June 22, 2019
Natural Gas NOW Picks of the Week – June 22, 2019
Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … … Natural Gas NOW 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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- June 21, 2019
Natural Gas Consumption Increases 5% As Emissions Grow by Only 2%
... … … Natural gas consumption grew by 5% in 2018 with economic growth, but emissions only grew only 2%, showing how gas, by changing the energy mix is a big win.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- June 21, 2019
Layne, DeNezza join Meritage as Coo, Cfo
Meritage Midstream announced T. Jeffrey Layne and Matthew DeNezza have joined the company’s leadership team as chief operating officer and chief financial officer, respectively, Kallanish Energy reports.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- June 21, 2019
Development Capital forms $165M JV in the Permian
Development Capital Resources (Dcr) said this week a company unit, capitalized by funds managed by affiliates of Ares Management, has entered into a drilling and development joint venture with a private operator in the Permian Basin, Kallanish Energy reports.Multi-State Health Analysis Exposes Flaws of Fracking Health Studies
The Colorado Department of Public and Environment and Pennsylvania Department of Health recently teamed up to analyze studies claiming to link health impacts to oil and natural gas development.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- June 20, 2019
EDGE Virtual Pipeline Company Produces and Delivers Its First LNG
Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … … The EDGE virtual pipeline company has produced and delivered its first Marcellus Shale LNG shipment.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- June 20, 2019
Energize PA Will Help Distribute More Natural Gas for Use Here at Home
Rick Hiduk Managing Editor of EndlessMtnLifestyles.com … … Energize PA will enable more natural gas use in the very communities, mostly rural, where it is produced, adding still another benefit from its production.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- June 20, 2019
PG&E settles wildfire claims for $1B
Pacific Gas and Electric said Wednesday it’s reached agreements to resolve wildfire claims made by 18 local public entities (cities, counties, districts and public agencies) impacted by the 2015 Butte Fire, 2017 Northern California wildfires and 2018 Camp Fire.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- June 20, 2019
Chisholm O&G, Gastar Exploration merging
A pair of independent producers, Chisholm Oil and Gas of Oklahoma, and Gastar Exploration of Houston, which exited Chapter 11 just five months ago, announced Wednesday they’re merging, Kallanish Energy reports.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- June 19, 2019
U.S. Oil & Natural Gas Industry Has Caused a “Tectonic Change” in Energy Markets
Following a “tectonic change” in global energy markets over the past decade from the shale revolution, “there is a bright future for natural gas,” according to American Gas Association President and CEO Karen Harbert.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- June 19, 2019
Want to See Something Really Scary? John Michael Greer Serves It Up
Michael Lynch President, Strategic Energy and Economic Researchand Master Resource Contributor … . .. John Michael Greer, like other modern-day Malthusian crackpots, is making a living scare-mongering but his facts don’t add up and his theories are nonsense.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- June 19, 2019
EQM raises cost, delays timing of Mvp
EQM Midstream Partners said this week it has raised the projected cost of its Mountain Valley natural gas pipeline from West Virginia to Virginia to $4.8-$5.0 billion, Kallanish Energy reports.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- June 18, 2019
Maryland AG asks federal judge to dismiss Columbia suit
Maryland Attorney General Brian Frosh has asked a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit filed by TransCanada’s Columbia Gas Transmission unit that wants to build a natural gas pipeline through three miles of the Maryland countryside state officials have rejected.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- June 18, 2019
Gibbstown LNG Deal Shows More New Jersey Duplicity Than DRBC
Garland L. Thompson, Esq. Journalist and Author, Philadelphia Garland Thompson explains what really happened with the Gibbstown LNG deal. It reveals New Jersey duplicity more so than it does DRBC double-dealing.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- June 18, 2019
Unilateral Energy Disarmament Is No Security Strategy for the U.S.
Daniel B. Markind, Esq. Flaster Greenberg PC The folly of the unilateral energy disarmament being practiced on the West Coast and in New England shows the U.S.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- June 18, 2019
Impact Fee (Tax) Has Huge Impact on Pennsylvania’s Rural Counties
Haley CitroneCabot Oil & GasExternal Affairs Intern, Pittsburgh … … The Marcellus Shale Impact Fee has been a highly innovative and effective version of a severance tax.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- June 17, 2019
Is Philadelphia Finally on Its Way to Becoming the Next Houston?
Jim Willis Editor & Publisher, Marcellus Drilling News (MDN) Philadelphia, which is officially on record against fracking, may finally be on its way to becoming the next Houston.Shale Gas News – June 15, 2019
Bill desRosiers External Affairs Coordinator, Cabot Oil & Gas … … The Shale Gas News, heard every Saturday at 10 AM on 94.3 FM, 1510 AM and Sundays on YesFM, talked about how fracking saves lives, U.S.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- June 17, 2019
ND’s April crude production near high, natgas sets mark
North Dakota crude oil production was flat in April, just below a record set earlier this year, state regulators said Friday — but natural gas production again set an all-time record, Kallanish Energy finds.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- June 17, 2019
TX company wants to move royalties suit to federal court
A class-action lawsuit filed by nine Idaho residents who signed leases with a Texas-based independent oil and gas producer may be moved from state court to federal court, Kallanish Energy reports.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- June 16, 2019
Energize PA Pipe Investment Program Would Reinvigorate Rural PA
Johnny Williams Bradford County Writer Johnny Williams reports on the Energize PA bill now before the Pennsylvania legislature and which would help further reinvigorating rural Pennsylvania.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- June 15, 2019
National Grid Northeast 80 by 50 Pathway Isn’t Going to Appease Radicals
Roger Caiazza Independent Researcher and Publisher,Pragmatic Environmentalist of New York … National Grid has developed a “Northeast 80 by 50 Pathway” apparently hoping to appease radicals who want no part of natural gas, but it’s not going to work.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- June 15, 2019
Natural Gas NOW Picks of the Week – June 15, 2019
Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … … Natural Gas NOW 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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- June 14, 2019
BP: In Case There Was Any Doubt, the U.S. Shale Revolution Is Alive and Kicking
The United States shattered the previous record for the largest single-year increase in oil and natural gas production in 2018, according to BP’s annual Statistical Review of World Energy.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- June 14, 2019
TPG, Glendale partner to buy non-operated assets
Global finance/investment firm TPG Sixth Street and private oil and gas producer Glendale Energy Ventures announced a new oil and gas investment partnership with an initial $500 million in capital commitments.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- June 14, 2019
Prime Rock, New Dawn partner in the Austin Chalk
Prime Rock Resources and New Dawn Energy are partnering to develop assets contributed by each company in central Louisiana, targeting the Austin Chalk play, Kallanish Energy reports.Double-Dealing DRBC Shows All Its Cards
Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … … The double-dealing DRBC just showed the world what it’s all about; rewarding the lower valley with development while proposing to stop it entirely upriver.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- June 13, 2019
Appalachian storage hub loan guarantee perhaps in trouble
An amendment to a major government appropriations bill (H.R. 2740) could mean trouble for a $1.9 billion Energy Department loan guarantee for the proposed natural gas liquids storage facility planned for Appalachia, Kallanish Energy reports.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- June 13, 2019
Jumar Energy inks development pact with Mongoose
Oil and gas investment company Jumar Energy Capital said this week it’s entered into a joint development agreement with two-year-old independent producer Mongoose Energy, which is backed by EnCap Investments.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- June 12, 2019
Tunkhannock Students Raise Trout in the Classroom
Rick Hiduk Managing Editor of EndlessMtnLifestyles.com … … A group of students at Tunkhannock High School got hands on with Trout in the Classroom; hatching, caring for and releasing trout fingerlings.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- June 12, 2019
Replacing Coal with Gas Is the Only Way to Catch Up in Reducing CO2
Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … … Replacing coal with shale gas has allowed the U.S. to reduce CO2 emissions more than anyone else and for the world to catch up more of this must be done.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- June 12, 2019
Obama-Era EPA Head Doesn’t Believe U.S. Can Both Create Jobs and Protect the Environment
Former Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Gina McCarthy complained to Congress this week that the current EPA is doing too much to propel economic growth and boost job creation.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- June 12, 2019
ExxonMobil to proceed with oil development in Argentina
ExxonMobil said Tuesday it will develop an onshore oil project in Argentina that could produce up to 55,000 barrels of oil-equivalent per day (Boe/d) within five years, Kallanish Energy reports.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- June 11, 2019
Zero Emissions Claims Don’t Pan Out for Electric Vehicles
... … … Zero emissions claims are popular these days but they seldom pan out, as is the case with electric vehicles in Germany.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- June 11, 2019
Meritage launches open season for Thunder Creek extension
Meritage Midstream Services II said Monday its Thunder Creek NGL Pipeline subsidiary launched a binding open season to support construction of a 140-mile extension to its existing natural gas liquids pipeline, Kallanish Energy reports.US line pipe prices sink again
U.S. line pipe prices sunk in May, Kallanish Energy’s sister publication, Kallanish, learns from analyst Pipe Logix. Average U.S. line pipe prices fell by 1.5% from April to May, reaching a combined $1,757/short ton at the distribution level.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- June 10, 2019
Shale Development is Driving America’s Oil and Natural Gas Dominance
Horizontally drilled wells now account for 96 percent of U.S. oil production from shale formations, as well as about 97 percent of shale gas production – up from 15 percent and 14 percent, respectively, in 2004 – according to a report from the U.S.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- June 10, 2019
Bloomberg Misses Completely On Natural Gas While “Shooting For the Moon” With Beyond Carbon Campaign
Former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg recently announced that he is “shooting for the moon” and spending $500 million “to close every coal-fired power plant in the United States and halt the growth of natural gas,” through a Beyond Carbon campaign led by the Sierra Club.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- June 10, 2019
Report: The United States Will Be the World’s Top LNG Exporter in the Next Five Years
The United States – currently the third largest exporter of liquefied natural gas – will surpass Australia and Qatar to become the world’s largest exporter of LNG within five years, according to a recent International Energy Agency report.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- June 10, 2019
Martin Midstream sells storage assets in $215M deal
Martin Midstream Partners said Monday it’s selling to Hartree Cardinal Gas its membership interests in Arcadia Gas Storage, Cadeville Gas Storage Monroe Gas Storage, and Perryville Gas Storage for $215 million in cash.DRBC Executive Director Steve Tambini Gets Snarky Over Lobbying Assertion
Betty Sutliff Wayne County LandownerUDRBC Secretary DRBC Executive Director Steve Tambini didn’t like being called out for lobbying the Pennsylvania legislature in opposition to Jonathan Fritz’s H.B.Shale Gas News – June 8, 2019
Bill desRosiers External Affairs Coordinator, Cabot Oil & Gas … … The Shale Gas News, heard every Saturday at 10 AM on 94.3 FM, 1510 AM and Sundays on YesFM, talked about LNG exports, NJ pipeline denial, natural gas demand and much more last week.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- June 10, 2019
‘Urgent’ call to take advantage of Appalachia’s ethane largesse
CECIL TOWNSHIP, Pennsylvania – The Appalachian Basin, specifically the trio of states including Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia, is approaching a tipping point when determining what is done with the substantial volume of ethane produced here.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- June 10, 2019
Working gas in storage jumps by triple digits
The volume of working natural gas injected into underground storage during the week ended May 31, was the second-highest amount in 2019, and the fifth time this year the volume was measured in triple digits, Kallanish Energy reports.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- June 9, 2019
New Jersey DEP Under Murphy Steals Cuomo Flea Flicker Play on NESE
Jim Willis Editor & Publisher, Marcellus Drilling News (MDN) New Jersey DEP under Phil Panderbear Murphy is a clone of Andrew Cuomo’s DEC and has just stolen the latter’s flea-flicker play in the NESE pipeline game.Natural Gas NOW Picks of the Week – June 8, 2019
Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … … Natural Gas NOW 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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- June 7, 2019
Tourism Grows with Shale Development in Ohio
A growing trend of oil and gas industry visitors is sparking increased tourism offerings in Belmont County, Ohio, according to local officials.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- June 7, 2019
The New York Green New Deal – Where’s the Plan? There Is No Plan.
Roger Caiazza Independent Researcher and Publisher,Pragmatic Environmentalist of New York … The New York Green New Deal is a proposal without a plan; rhetoric wrapped in political promises that have no substance because there is no nothing there.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- June 7, 2019
Proved Reserves: Why They Grow Despite Fears of Running Out
Madison WeaverCabot Oil & GasExternal Affairs Intern, Pittsburgh … … Proved reserves of natural gas and other natural resources grow with technology, a point modern Malthusians such as fractivists never quite seem to grasp.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- June 7, 2019
Horizontally drilled wells dominate U.S. O&G production
Wells drilled horizontally into tight oil and shale gas plays continue to account for an increasing share of crude oil and natural gas production in the U.S., the Energy Information Administration said Thursday.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- June 7, 2019
Gazprom Neft signs with Novatek, Shell
Russia’s third largest oil producer, Gazprom Neft, Thursday revealed three joint ventures to develop hydrocarbon projects in Russia, Kallanish Energy learns.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- June 6, 2019
“Keep It In the Ground” Vandalism Creates Safety Issues, Prompts New Federal Pipeline Legislation
“Keep It In the Ground” activists have zeroed in on pipeline infrastructure in recent years for activities that risk danger to people and the environment while causing costly construction delays.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- June 6, 2019