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Rover Volumes Up, But At Whose Expense?

September 19, 2017 | Matthew Hoza

It has been a bumpy ride, but the Northeast has finally begun flows on the first major greenfield project to come to market in almost a decade – Energy Transfer’s Rover. This begins a major shift in Marcellus and...
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Electric Vehicles a Boon to Gas-Fired Power Gen?

August 25, 2017 | Kathryn Downey Miller

The media blitz surrounding the delivery of Tesla’s first Model 3 sedan, the company’s first mass-market vehicle, got many in the energy market thinking about the impact of greater electric vehicle (EV) adoption. Does this represent a major risk...
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The Next Round of LNG Export

August 23, 2017 | Andrew Bradford

The next round of LNG export projects have been making headlines, and based on recent announced E&P activity and relatively weak gas demand in 2017, the U.S. gas market may need these projects as a new source of demand...
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GOM But Not Forgotten: Mexico’s Gulf of Mexico Revival

Can Deepwater Gulf of Mexico Economics Sustain Growing Production?

August 17, 2017 | Jake Fells

In 2013, Mexico initiated steps to reform the state-run oil and gas monopoly to allow foreign entities to explore for resources. Last month, two separate discoveries in the Mexican Gulf of Mexico (‘GOM’) were announced with a combined estimated...
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What the New FERC Quorum Means for the Marcellus and Utica

August 6, 2017 | Matthew Hoza

On the night of August 3rd, the US Senate confirmed a package of new Trump administration nominees before adjourning to go on recess. Among those 65 nominees approved were the administration’s first two nominees to the Federal Energy Regulatory...
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Rearview Mirror – New 2016 Data Confirms Improved West Virginia IP Rates

August 4, 2017 | Marissa Anderson

West Virginia only releases well-level oil and gas production data once per calendar year, and results from 2016 were finally just released in July. Having data this lagged for a state that’s critical to the Southwest Appalachia (Marcellus) production...
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Southwestern Energy Seeing Success in the Moorefield Shale – Part 2

July 17, 2017 | Andrew Bradford

In January 2016, BTU Analytics took a look at Southwestern Energy’s latest efforts in the Moorefield Shale, which lies underneath the Fayetteville Shale in Central Arkansas. The finding at the time was the Moorefield wells were putting up initial...
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