Natural Gas Storage Hub Developer Narrows List of Appalachian Sites
A group that wants to build a large storage hub for natural gas liquids in the Appalachian basin to further develop the petrochemical...
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Jan 16, 2020
Banking Industry Moves Away from Financing Fossil Fuels
In early January, shareholders at Barclays, a British investment bank, filed a resolution to preclude the bank from financing companies...
Jan 16, 2020
Declining Impact: Impact Fee Collections Drop after Price Drops and Warm Weather in 2019
It was a difficult year for the natural gas industry in 2019. Warmer than usual temperatures in the winter months of 2019 decreased the...
Jan 9, 2020
Appalachia Was a Top Producer of Natural Gas in 2019, But Success Could Spell Trouble in 2020
Natural gas production in Appalachia topped other US shale plays again in 2019. According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration...
Jan 9, 2020
DEP Fights EPA's Methane Regulation Rollback
The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Resources is urging the federal Environmental Protection Agency not to eliminate methane...
Dec 12, 2019
Pa. to Texas: ATEX Pipeline is Expanding
Transporting natural gas can be complicated, particularly from one end of the country to the other. In order to move gas such distances,...
Dec 12, 2019
Natural Gas Drillers Face Expensive Wastewater Disposal as Drilling Slows
The amount of “produced” wastewater from Marcellus Shale wells being drilled in Pennsylvania has risen dramatically since the development...
Dec 12, 2019
Gas Royalties Increase in Pennsylvania, According to Estimate
Royalties from gas well leases are a source of income for many landowners in Southwestern Pennsylvania, but determining just how much...
Nov 14, 2019
Wastewater Road Spreading to be Considered by PA Legislation
The Pennsylvania Senate recently approved legislation setting separate environmental protection standards for conventional oil and gas...
Nov 14, 2019
UNGD & Depression
Pennsylvania is one of the country’s leading producers of natural gas. Natural gas extraction is an industrial process, and as such may...
Nov 7, 2019
Abandoned Wells Present Major Problem for Pennsylvania, Neighboring States
Oil and gas drilling has been occurring in Pennsylvania since 1859, when the first commercial oil well was drilled. A major problem...
Oct 31, 2019
Low Natural Gas Prices Drive Push for Efficiencies, New Markets
Many of the speakers at the Shale Insight conference, an annual gathering of natural gas industry representatives held recently in...
Sep 26, 2019
WV Governor and Feds Focus on Petrochemical Development
Gov. Jim Justice in August signed an executive order creating a Downstream Job Task Force, which will work to bring manufacturing jobs to...
Sep 5, 2019
Greene County Undergoes Rebranding Welcoming Natural Gas Industry
Staff of the Shale Gas Knowledge Hub traveled to Waynesburg University in Greene County, Pa., to attend the launch event for the county’s...
Aug 29, 2019
Governor Wolf met by Mariner East Opponents
Gov. Tom Wolf has made Pennsylvania’s energy industry a key focus of his administration. However, while some plans proposed by the...
Aug 22, 2019
New EQT Leader Reaches Out About Changes
The new CEO of EQT, the largest gas producer in Pennsylvania, recently went on the road to assure landowners that his takeover of the...
Aug 22, 2019
Franklin & Marshall Poll Gauges Pennsylvanians’ Attitude toward Restore PA Plan
Franklin & Marshall College’s Center for Opinion Research has released the results for their August 2019 poll. The poll grades citizens...
Aug 15, 2019
EQT Settles WV Lawsuit
EQT has agreed to pay $53.5 million to settle a federal class-action lawsuit with West Virginia residents who claimed the company was...
Aug 8, 2019
Ohio Grant a ‘Positive Step’ Toward Final Decision on Second Appalachian Cracker Plant
Plans to build a second ethane cracker plant in the tri-state region are moving forward. PTT Global Chemical America has been studying...
Aug 8, 2019
Down the Pipeline: Downstream Potential in Pennsylvania
Shale development in Pennsylvania is moving downstream. With upstream operations now a functioning constant in the Commonwealth, natural...
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