Pennsylvania

The Biden administration is planning to invest $660 million to clean up orphaned natural gas and oil wells, with most of the funds earmarked for the energy producing states of Ohio, Pennsylvania and Texas. The goal is for the states to receive “economic growth and revitalization,” Department of Interior (DOI) officials said. The program would…

A federal court has vacated a 2021 settlement that awarded more than $9 million to Pennsylvania landowners that alleged underpayment of royalties by Chesapeake Energy Corp.  The 2021 settlement, filed in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas, was reached following Chesapeake’s Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization. Lessors argued that the third-largest publicly…

Mountain Valley Pipeline LLC (MVP) developers expect to have the long-delayed and oft-challenged natural gas pipeline in service by the end of this year thanks to a major assist from provisions included in the bipartisan debt ceiling deal signed by President Biden. The Fiscal Responsibility Act, negotiated between the Biden administration and lawmakers, and signed…

The return of LNG volumes in Australia, as well as stable natural gas and oil trading, should boost Shell plc’s results in the first quarter, the integrated major said. Liquefied natural gas volumes are forecast to climb to 7.0-7.4 million metric tons (MT) in 1Q2023 from 6.8 MT in 4Q2022.  Shell, in a preview of…

Olympus Energy LLC, which also has a midstream arm, has become the first integrated natural gas producer to independently certify its natural gas, according to management. The Pennsylvania-based exploration and production company focuses on upstream and midstream natural gas resources in the Appalachian Basin. Subsidiary Hyperion Midstream also  gained verification for its gas emissions, both…

Pennsylvania’s natural gas production declined by 5.1% in the final quarter of 2022, the largest year/year decline since monthly production data began, according to the state’s Independent Fiscal Office (IFO). This was the fourth consecutive quarter in which production did not increase on a yearly basis, according to the IFO’s Natural Gas Production Report compiled…

FERC has issued a certificate to the Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line Co. LLC (Transco) Regional Energy Access Expansion Project (REAE), but environmental groups are planning to oppose it.  The project would expand natural gas capacity from the shale fields of Northeast Pennsylvania to other delivery points in the state, along with those in New Jersey…

The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) has issued a notice of violation to Shell Chemicals Appalachia LLC for exceeding its air pollutant limits after operations began at its ethane cracker near Pittsburgh. Shell started operations at the massive complex in November. DEP said emissions of volatile organic compounds (VOC) exceeded the limits of its…

Coterra Energy Inc. has agreed to pay more than $16 million to build a new public water supply system in Dimock, PA, to resolve charges that its predecessor, Cabot Oil and Gas Corp., contaminated residents’ well water over a decade ago during unconventional natural gas development in the area. Coterra, formed in 2021 after Cabot…