Tag: oil and gas
Ohio lawmakers include language promoting oil and gas in budget bill
The Ohio House version of the 2022-23 state operating budget includes language that would make it state policy to “promote” oil and gas development, exploration and production. The House also added in provisions to make it easier to lease mineral rights under state lands.
Third Marcellus gas producer goes for responsibly sourced natural gas
Northeast Natural Gas recently announced it will seek a responsibly sourced natural gas certification, joining Chesapeake and EQT as the third producer to do so in the Marcellus Shale fields.
Reports: Plugging wells, reclaiming mine land could create thousands of jobs
Two new reports by the Ohio River Valley Institute set out to find what it would cost to remediate and reclaim all the abandoned oil and gas wells and mine land in Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia. The bad news? It'll cost billions. The good news? That investment could provide a “shot in the arm” to the region in terms of job creation.
Chesapeake joins EQT in producing certified ‘responsibly sourced’ gas
Pressure is mounting on oil and gas companies to show that they’re environmentally and socially conscious. Some Marcellus Shale drillers are stepping up by putting continuous monitoring equipment on well pads and going through a rigorous certification process to prove their natural gas is "responsibly sourced."
DOE offers up $35M for new tech that can cut methane...
The U.S. Department of Energy is offering up to $35 million to develop technologies to reduce methane emissions in the oil, gas and coal industries.
Pennsylvania plugging 12 more abandoned oil and gas wells
Work is beginning to plug a dozen abandoned oil and gas wells in Cornplanter State Forest, in Forest County, Pennsylvania, the DEP and DCNR announced April 7. Some of the wells are believed to date back to the 1920s.
Chesapeake fined $1.9M for damaging Pennsylvania waterways
State and federal regulators levied a nearly $2 million fine against Chesapeake Appalachia for damaging streams and wetlands at 76 gas drilling sites in Pennsylvania. The damages happened across sites in Beaver, Bradford, Sullivan, Susquehanna and Wyoming counties.
New administration, new challenges for oil and gas industry
The Biden administration’s actions around oil and gas development, the environment and the climate have created a lot of uncertainty for the industry that employs tens of thousands of people in Ohio and Pennsylvania, oil and gas industry leaders say.
Ohio legislation would stop towns from banning natural gas
Three bills recently introduced in Ohio seek to stop local governments from limiting the use of fossil fuels. Similar legislation has been proposed or passed in several others states in response to some West Coast cities banning natural gas hookups in new construction.
Federal judge orders no new fracking in Wayne National Forest
The decision comes after a ruling last year found the Bureau of Land Management and U.S. Forest Service failed to adequately consider the environmental impacts hydraulic fracturing could have on Wayne National Forest.
