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Every now and again, the editorial board at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, a far-left-leaning newspaper, surprises us. Yesterday's editorial is one such day. We brought you the news yesterday that the uber-arrogant billionaire Mike Bloomberg is spending $85 million to try and shut down or block petrochemical plants

It is a breathtaking abuse of power. Michael Bloomberg, the far-left billionaire who ran out of things to do and now looks for meaning in his life by hiring lawyers to attack the fossil energy industry, is spending $85 million to fund green groups in their efforts to block

The mighty Shell ethane cracker in Beaver County, PA, is now complete and gradually coming up to full operation--although it isn't officially producing plastic pellets yet. The Shell cracker plant experienced a problem with a process compressor last Sunday that forced a shutdown and billowing smoke for about

Yesterday both Antero Midstream (the pipeline subsidiary of Antero Resources), and Crestwood Equity Partners announced a deal to sell Crestwood's remaining Marcellus assets to Antero for $205 million. The assets include 72 miles of dry gas gathering pipelines and nine compressor stations with approximately 700 MMcf/d of compression capacity located in Doddridge County and Harrison

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The mighty Shell ethane cracker complex in Monaca (Beaver County), PA, is due to come online any day now. In fact, with such a large and complex facility, it is already "coming online" gradually and has been since August (see Shell CEO Says PA Cracker Now Done, Gradually Coming Online). The truly momentous event will

Is this the beginning of a pullback from LNG projects? Scared of the impacts of the coronavirus and the price of oil crashing, Royal Dutch Shell is pulling out of a 50/50 joint venture partnership with Energy Transfer (ET) to build a new LNG export facility in Lake Charles, Louisiana. In corporate speak, Shell says,

The trailblazing start-up Conektr has landed the Al Maya Group as a major investor. Dubai based Retail & Distribution conglomerate Al Maya group acquired a majority ...

In June, a Shell executive told the Appalachian Energy Innovation Collaborative conference that the company's Pennsylvania ethane cracker project was 98% done and would be fully online within “a couple of months” (see Shell Exec Says Ethane Cracker 98% Done, Online “Couple of Months”). He was right. During a recent conference call with analysts about

Earlier this month, MDN brought you the fantastic news that seemingly out of nowhere a plan to build an LNG export facility on the banks of the Delaware River south of Philadelphia is being actively, seriously discussed (see U.S. East Coast’s 3rd LNG Export Plant Proposed Near