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 OH Cracker delay, Mountain Valley Pipeline, new Utica wells and much more last week.
The Shale Gas News has grown again; welcome Gem 104 as our FOURTH station! Gem 104 helps to solidify the Shale Gas News coverage in an important Marcellus region, PA’s northern tier. The Shale Gas News is now broadcasting in Bradford, Lackawanna, Lancaster, Lebanon, Luzerne, Lycoming, Pike, Sullivan, Susquehanna, Tioga and Wayne Counties, as well as in greater central PA. The Shale Gas News is aired on Saturday or Sunday depending on the station.
Every Saturday Rusty Fender and I host a morning radio show to discuss all things natural gas. This week, as guests, we had Mike Atchie, manager of public outreach at Williams Partners, George Stark, Director of external affairs at Cabot Oil & Gas and Donna Wheeler, Mobile Oilfield Learning Unit Manager at Offshore Energy Center.
The Shale Gas News, typically, is broadcast live. On the October 13th show (click above), we covered the following new territory (see news excerpts below):
- Rumblings that PTT Will Once Again Delay OH Cracker Decision. PTT Global Chemical announced in April 2015 they want to build a $6 billion ethane cracker plant complex in Belmont County, OH. Since that time PTT has purchased land, paid $100 million to get the cracker facility designed, and repeatedly said a final investment decision (FID) is imminent. It’s been imminent for more than two years now, and rumor has it the decision is delayed yet again.
- Antero Nuisance Case by Surface Landowners Goes to WV Supreme Crt. We’re not quite sure how to tackle this story as there are so many aspects to it. Let’s start here: Two years ago lawsuits filed by some 200 West Virginia residents against Antero Resources were combined into a class action lawsuit. The lawsuits are called “nuisance” lawsuits because, according to the plantiffs, Antero is a nuisance to them (truck traffic, noise, lights at night, etc.). That massive class action lawsuit, filed in early 2016, is about to be heard by the WV Supreme Court–a court in disarray after all of its sitting justices were impeached and removed.
- JKLM Drilling 14 Utica Wells in Potter County, PA This Year. JKLM Energy, a Pennsylvania gas drilling company founded by Buffalo Bills owner Terry Pegula, recently hosted a tour of their active operations in Potter County, PA–the only county they drill in. The tour included “county and local government leaders, representatives of conservation organizations and other guests.” Drillers conduct such tours from time to time (go on one if you get the chance!). It wasn’t so much the tour, but a tidbit of information revealed on the tour that caught our attention: That JKLM is on track to drill 14 new Utica Shale wells in Potter County this year.
- Court Overturns MVP WV Permit; FERC Shutdown Coming Again? We’ve seen this movie before. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit (quickly becoming the Fourth Circus) has once again listened to the arguments of anti-fossil fuel groups including the Sierra Club and Chesapeake Climate Action Network and has overturned a recently re-issued permit that allows Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP) to use certain methods to build the pipeline across streams and rivers in West Virginia. The court action pretty much shuts down all work on MVP in WV.
- Range Resources Sued by PA Landowner re Post-Production Deductions. In the absence of a guaranteed minimum royalty in Pennsylvania–an issue which continues to divide landowners and drillers–individual landowners are left to litigate in order to get what they are fairly due. Such litigation is time consuming and expensive, and without a certain outcome, which is why most landowners don’t do it. In Washington County, PA a couple who signed a lease with Range Resources have just filed a lawsuit against Range in county court alleging Range violated the terms of the lease by deducting post-production expenses.
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