Posted on 10/17/2022 8:58:28 AM PDT by Plumberman27
Regulatory hurdles are stymieing growth in natural gas production in the Marcellus-Utica basin, the largest U.S. gas-producing region, which is set to miss out on the expected boom in American liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports in the coming years.
Not only is Marcellus-Utica missing the opportunity to export and monetize natural gas in a world scrambling for LNG supply, but it is also unable to provide more natural gas to the regions close to it in New England, analysts and the pipeline industry say.
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Whoa! Would it work?
Now you know why my wife and I have a large solar array and do most of our driving in an EV. We need to all find ways to make our families less reliant on the things the Dims can regulate away from us.
You are the carbon they want to eliminate.
NY won’t do it, not now anyway. PA, don’t know. I hope WVa does (assuming it needs to) because I am sitting on top of the south-central portion of Marcellus and have mineral rights.
So you have an EV, which is reliant on the electric grid which is controlled by government mandate as a monopoly?
Because it’s a region so idiotic that there is a serious risk that that drooling slob federman might get elected to the us Senate. Small wonder they are missing out.
Stop electing morons. That’s really the bottom line.
I thought he was implying he uses his large solar array for the EV.
“ Now you know why my wife and I have a large solar array and do most of our driving in an EV. We need to all find ways to make our families less reliant on the things the Dims can regulate away from us. ”
We all have our own ways of becoming less dependent on big government.
Most of the world’s poverty is caused by corrupt governments. We are not exempt.
In recent years the Marcellus and Utica shale deposits have become prized sources of natural gas for domestic manufacturers of plastic products. Shell Polymers is completing construction of a massive new project in the Pittsburgh area that includes a 50+ mile pipeline to transport Marcellus gas to a petrochemical plant where it is broken down into its components and converted to polyethylene for the production of plastic components.
At the peak of its construction activity a couple of years ago, the Shell Polymers project was the largest private-sector construction project in North America.
I have worked on several projects in that area in recent years, and have dealt with a number of people in Pennsylvania industry and government who are involved in fracking issues around the state. At no time have I ever gotten any sense of concern from them about problems with pipeline projects getting blocked in regulatory processes. In fact, I am under the impression that Pennsylvania leaders in business and government are thrilled that these major industries don't have to compete for Marcellus/Utica gas with a bunch of @ssholes in New England who could use it to heat and power their homes and businesses.
P.S. -- Rumor has it that Exxon/Mobil is looking in that same region of Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia for a potential site for a similar petrochemical plant. I'm sure they would do whatever it takes to block any new pipelines that could be used to transport the gas out of the region.
Because Andy Cuomo prohibited it in NYS.
And the commie PA governor regulated it out of profitability in many spots.
Evidently you overlooked the first part of the sentence you're replying on: "Now you know why my wife and I have a large solar array..." Since I added to the solar array a couple of months ago, right after buying the EV, literally 95% of all of our power was supplied by the solar system. We bought only 5% of our power from the grid, even though our two-story house is all-electric. Most of that 5% I pulled from the grid was me setting my inverters to pull a tiny bid of power from the grid continuously as a kind of heartbeat ping so that my power utility doesn't treat me as a lost power customer and automatically shut me off. I've had to buy only 27kWh from the grid across two days my solar system almost but nooootttt quite gave me all the power I needed.
You can call that being "reliant on the electric grid" if you want. Solar isn't an option for everybody. But if you live in the south, own your home, and plan to be there at least 10 years, it's worth considering. Especially if you want a hedge against the Dims energy inflating your retirement investments away to force us to tithe to their warmageddon cult.
It is so very easy for FR to go overboard about US gas and oil.
Here are the numbers.
The Marcellus formation is estimated to hold **undiscovered (not proven) reserves** between 45 and 144 trillion cubic feet of gas. Or rather, that was the estimate in 2011 before production began (and note this was with a shale presumption by USGS). That’s a pretty big range so let’s take the middle number of 90 trillion cubic feet. Undiscovered.
(Note Russia’s PROVEN reserves come in at 1320 trillion cubic feet. Undiscovered many times more)
Marcellus production has been about 20 billion cubic feet/day 2019. That’s 7.3 trillion cubic feet per year, and of course that production has to come from reserves actually proven, not imagined.
So that would be about 13 years of the undiscovered. Fewer of the discovered.
Bottom line, it doesn’t matter what regulations obstruct or don’t obstruct. You can’t pump what runs out and isn’t there.
If PA elects Weasel Shapiro you can count on NO help from him.
Biden pulled permits for pipelines that were to run up to New England. Enjoy your high energy costs and be sure to Thank Brandon.
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