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Find news & resources on drilling for natural gas. Marcellus Drilling News is the best source available for news about the Marcellus and Utica Shales. Editor Jim Willis spends several hours providing the latest news interests to producers, supply chain companies, landowners, and anyone with a curiosity in the northeast shale gas industry.
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Huntley & Huntley Energy Exploration (HHEX), a shale driller headquartered in Southpointe (Washington County), PA, that leases ~100,000 acres and drills in the Pittsburgh suburbs, was founded in 2012. The company renamed itself to Olympus Energy in 2019 (see PA Driller HHEX Renames Itself Olympus Energy). Olympus is majority-owned by private equity firm Blackstone. Bloomberg...
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Condensate production (super-light crude oil) in the Utica Shale’s volatile oil window in eastern Ohio has more than doubled over the past three years. RBN Energy has done a deep dive into the Ohio Utica condensate market with several posts (three so far). The first article (in early January) dealt mainly with Encino Energy, the...
The post Ohio’s Utica Condensate/Light Crude Part 3 – How It’s Transported first appeared on Marcellus Drilling News ..read more
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Have you ever considered all the different goods and services required to plug an orphaned well? It’s a surprisingly long and complex list! You might think (as we did), “There’s an old well, pull up with a cement mixer, dump cement down the hole, and voila, it’s done.” Not so! The process begins with locating...
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The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) is a federally-owned electric utility corporation in the U.S. TVA’s service area covers all of Tennessee, portions of Alabama, Mississippi, and Kentucky, and small areas of Georgia, North Carolina, and Virginia. TVA is the sixth-largest power supplier and the largest public utility in the U.S. In 2021, MDN told you...
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MDN chronicled the rise and fall of Tellurian, founded by Charif Souki (who also founded Cheniere Energy), and Tellurian’s LNG export project, Driftwood. Tellurian’s primary focus was to build Driftwood LNG, a 27.6 million tonnes of LNG per year facility that would cost $14.5 billion. Construction began on the project in March 2022, even without...
The post Woodside Close to a Decision to Proceed with Former Driftwood LNG first appeared on Marcellus Drilling News ..read more
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Well, look at this. After liquefying and exporting over 350 cargoes of LNG from March 1, 2022, through January 2025, Venture Global says its Calcasieu Pass (CP) LNG export facility is finally “ready” to begin “commercial” operations….on April 15th of this year. Nearly three years after it began shipping LNG. Venture Global has claimed the...
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Newly-confirmed Secretary of Energy, Chris Wright, appeared virtually before the ARC Conference in London yesterday. ARC stands for The Alliance for Responsible Citizenship, an international movement with a vision for a better world where empowered citizens take responsibility and work together to bring flourishing and prosperity to their families, communities, and nations. The ARC organization...
The post DOE Sec. Wright: Net-Zero is Not Energy Transition, It’s Lunacy first appeared on Marcellus Drilling News ..read more
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NATIONAL: Chevron vice chairman confirms job cuts; INTERNATIONAL: EU Commission warns a host of member states on adoption of energy rules; Will Europe return to Putin’s gas?; Is an oil market share war on the cards for 2025?; Coal’s persistence signals the myth of the energy transition. NATIONAL Chevron vice chairman confirms job cuts Rigzone...
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Never in our wildest dreams did we see this one coming. And we must caution against too much hope. However, we are JAZZED. Last Friday, President Trump signed yet another executive order. This EO creates the National Energy Dominance Council, directing the new council to move quickly to increase domestic oil and gas production (see...
The post Stop Press! Trump Pledges to Revive PA-to-NY Constitution Pipeline first appeared on Marcellus Drilling News ..read more
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President Trump signed an executive order Friday establishing the National Energy Dominance Council. The Council will be chaired by Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum and vice-chaired by Energy Secretary Chris Wright. The other members are essentially all of the cabinet members, the secretaries of the other executive branch agencies, including State, Treasury, Defense, Justice,...
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