The top #naturalgas producers in the #marcellusshale and #uticashale plan to participate in the Marcellus-Utica Shale Water Business Update on 7/29 in Pittsburgh. Will you be joining them at this event? Registration is open here...

A notice from the Environmental Protection Agency regarding air quality and nonattainment issues in the Permian Basin drew swift reaction from elected officials and the oil and gas industry alike.

O’Melveny advised publicly-traded Matador Resources Company, an independent energy company (NYSE: MTDR), in its agreement for one of its wholly owned subsidiaries to acquire Summit Midstream Permian, LLC, which owns the Lane Gathering and Processing System of publicly-traded Summit Midstream Partners, LP (NYSE: SMLP), for US$75 million.

The Pennsylvania Dept. of Environmental Protection (DEP) published a final regulation over the weekend–at the specific direction of the PA legislature–that allows shale drillers to operate temporary waste process facilities at shale pads and other locations.

A pipeline being built by a Pittsburgh company is asking for a four-year extension for a key permit.

This SPE Live event will discuss how an integrated approach can demonstrate the value of water, and change perspective to view produced water as a resource, rather than a waste stream.

Investments will fund water efficiency and drought resilience projects in California, Colorado, Idaho, Oklahoma, Texas, Utah, Washington and Wyoming

“The oilfield water market is poised for a very interesting 2022. M&A activity, regulatory responses to induced seismicity, and rising produced water volumes across the US lower 48 states have all set the stage in 2021 for what will certainly be the most dynamic market conditions in a growing oilfield segment,” says Ryan Hassler, senior analyst with Rystad Energy.”

Last week USWS announced it is selling itself to ProFrac Holding Corp. in an all-stock transaction analysts value at $225-$230 million.

We’ve written, a number of times, that fossil energy–natural gas in particular–is the destination, not a bridge to somewhere else. Here’s the truth of the matter: We need ALL forms of energy.

According to James West, a senior managing director at Evercore ISI (investment bank), an era of heavy investment in “all of the above” energy from fossil fuels to renewables to carbon mitigation technologies is now unfolding.

Now, with the world crying out for more oil and gas, American frackers are theoretically in a position to provide it. Instead, they are riding the brakes, having changed their business models to focus on generating profits for investors rather than increasing production.

Penn LNG is “mulling several spots between South Philadelphia and Marcus Hook” ...

U.S. oil drillers added rigs for the third-straight week while the world's global crude supply -- suppressed by Russia's war against Ukraine -- continues to fall short of post-pandemic demand and drives up prices.

Looking at new O&G well permit demand in the Permian, we see another sign of “toppiness” as June marks the 3rd month in a row where permits submitted have declined.

The Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission (PUC) said on June 17 that 2021’s impact fees on natural gas producers were about $100 million higher than in 2020, due to higher gas prices and the addition of new wells.

A clever idea to use magnetic nanoparticles to capture valuable materials from brine. Sounds arcane, but it’s blossomed into new projects that could help make the U.S. a producer, and not just a consumer, of critical minerals used in electronics and energy production.

UPDATE: According to the City of Odessa, work on the busted water main was completed at 1:30 p.m. 6/21/22

OVV's idea (deployed on one Permian simulfrac pad for the first time this year) is essentially to build thousands of tons of sand inventory on the pad in an open-air wet sand stockpile concept that looks similar to WIP piles you see at mines.

Producers Midstream, a Dallas-based portfolio company of Tailwater Capital focused on providing a full suite of turnkey midstream solutions to producers across the U.S., today announced that it has secured a new syndicated credit facility led by Texas Capital Bancshares, Inc., Bank of Oklahoma and Cadence Bank. The credit facility will allow the Company to borrow up to an additional $200 million assuming certain conditions are met.