[AdamB]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('coffeeguyzz', 'P')ennsylvania just released April production numbers.

New monthly record, as far as I know, was set by Cabot's T Kropa 10.
It produced over 1.3 Bcf for April, a daily flow rate of 43,375 MMcfd.
At 1.54 Bcf cum over 5 weeks, it is actually surpassed by the 1.86 Bcf produced by sister well Kropa 8, online 51 days.
The 5 wells recently turned in line on this pad have cumulatively produced over 6 Bcf in 7 weeks time.

This is simply an astonishing amount of gas.

[sparky]

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More gas on the market
and a good bit of geopolitics to boot , Qatar announce a 30% increase in production

http://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-gulf-q ... 9P1TU?il=0

[dissident]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('sparky', '.')
More gas on the market
and a good bit of geopolitics to boot , Qatar announce a 30% increase in production

http://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-gulf-q ... 9P1TU?il=0

[sparky]

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There has been some action toward this , the Yamal gas is supposed to feed three LNG trains of liquefiers
a small detail it's a joint project with China and French companies involved , in fact the Chinese loaned the money to Total and the main operator Novatek , under sanctions ,Siemens of Germany will provide the turbines
the LNG is to be delivered through the North East passage to China with a Fleet of special tankers build by the Korean Daewood operated by a Russian company
as a purely technical exercise I would be curious to see the local climate influence on the plants efficiency
the gas has to be cooled a lot ,
Qatar is doing it with ambient temperatures around 45Dg C
Yamal winter temperature is around - 45DgC

the LNG versus high pressure pipeline is usually better for the pipes but it require a peaceful and steady political environment , while LNG is way more flexible

[dashster]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Yoshua', '
')US conventional nat gas peaked in 2008. US coal peaked in 2008. Shale gas accounts for two thirds of US gas production today.

[ROCKMAN]

"...conventional US natural gas production peaked in in the early 1970's." Actually that chart doesn't appear to distinguish conventional NG production from unconventional reservoirs. Granted there's been a recent boom in unconventional production the Rockman was drilling and frac'ng unconventional reservoirs in the 1970's. Others were doing so in the 1950's. But though the data isn't available the vast majority of NG production, until recently, has been from conventional reservoirs.

Given the Marcellus Shale has been the primary source of the recent NG boom tracking it might be the best predictor. According to EIA the NG rig count in the MS shale has doubled in the last year (and still increasing slowly) but is still less then half of where it peaked in 2012.

[dashster]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('ROCKMAN', '&')quot;...conventional US natural gas production peaked in in the early 1970's." Actually that chart doesn't appear to distinguish conventional NG production from unconventional reservoirs. Granted there's been a recent boom in unconventional production the Rockman was drilling and frac'ng unconventional reservoirs in the 1970's. Others were doing so in the 1950's. But though the data isn't available the vast majority of NG production, until recently, has been from conventional reservoirs.

Given the Marcellus Shale has been the primary source of the recent NG boom tracking it might be the best predictor. According to EIA the NG rig count in the MS shale has doubled in the last year (and still increasing slowly) but is still less then half of where it peaked in 2012.

[ROCKMAN]

Didn't say production of NG from conventional reservoirs didn't peak some years ago...just don't have data to establish an exact date. But did point out that much of the current production is coming from the unconventional Marcellus Shale formation.

Just not exactly sure of the distinction. Many of the MS wells have been more economical ventures then many of the conventional completions over the last few decades. Especially those completed offshore in the GOM. As pointed out many times when the Rockman's new company began about 8 years ago we spent $240 million (just our share) drilling deep conventional reservoirs in S Louisiana. And the NG prices fell below $5/MCF about 5 years ago and we have a drilled such well a well in the last 5 years. Meanwhile the MS has been picking up the slack nationally at the lower price.

[ROCKMAN]

And finally the dumb ass politicians in PA are going to charge NG producers a severance tax...maybe. Unlike Texas and many other states PA has never collected a severance tax from companies that produce oil/NG. Several years ago the Rockman calculated the ST the state would have collected just that one year if it had the same rate as Texas: $370 million. BTW Louisiana charges almost 3X as much ST on oil as Texas:

"One of the top natural gas-producing states in the country, Pennsylvania's Senate-passed plan, which must still be approved by the state's GOP-majority House of Representatives, would increase drillers' costs in the state by imposing a severance tax of 2 cents per thousand cubic feet on natural gas production to generate an estimated $80 million this year for the state." But Texas collects at a rate almost 4X greater: 7.5% of market value of gas produced. And Louisiana: 16.3¢ per MCF regardless of how low NG prices go.

And the argument that companies won't drill as much in PA if it imposed a ST is obviously BS: look at the number of wells drilled in Texas and Louisiana.

But they are going to tax consumers much heavier:

"In addition, the proposal would levy a 5.7-percent natural gas gross receipts tax on home heating bills expected to yield approximately $400 million."

Texas has collected many tens of $BILLIONS in ST over the years. And PA = ZERO

[ROCKMAN]

Another indication of the UK's potential energy vulnerability:

July 26 (Reuters) - The extension of an outage at Norway's Kollsnes gas processing plant on Wednesday lifted British gas prices on expectations of tighter supply over the next few months.

More at

http://www.rigzone.com/news/oil_gas/a/1 ... ish_Prices

[Tanada]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('ROCKMAN', 'b')aha - Nothing wrong with being optimistic about coal consumption declining to a very minimal level...many decades down the road. But not next year or even next decade. And that decline will be delayed if the price of NG/LNG increases 3X to levels seen not that many years ago. Consumers, especially those in developing economies, will demand the lowest cost energy. Likewise renewables could SLOWLY reduce coal consumption.

As long as the world is consuming near record levels of coal TODAY such optimism seems borderline delusional. Not trying to hurt anyone's feelings but as you imply the numbers can't be ignored.

[AdamB]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '
')
fotosuper/Thinkstock Press spacebar to see more share options. In the nineties, a bumper sticker with the words “happiness is multiple pipelines” could be seen slapped on cars from Houston to Washington, D.C., to Baku, Azerbaijan. Though that slogan referred to the effort to build other pipelines that bypass Russia to move oil out of the Caspian Basin, the sentiment applies today in Texas, too. There are simply not enough pipelines to take away the natural gas being produced in the Permian Basin to markets where it can be used. The Wall Street Journal highlighted this issue in a Monday story: Pipelines running from the region’s Permian Basin to the Gulf Coast’s chemical plants, cities and export terminals are essentially full. Drillers in the Rockies and Canada already supply markets in the north and west. There is plenty of room on pipelines running south to Mexico,

[Outcast_Searcher]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('AdamB', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '
')
fotosuper/Thinkstock Press spacebar to see more share options. In the nineties, a bumper sticker with the words “happiness is multiple pipelines” could be seen slapped on cars from Houston to Washington, D.C., to Baku, Azerbaijan. Though that slogan referred to the effort to build other pipelines that bypass Russia to move oil out of the Caspian Basin, the sentiment applies today in Texas, too. There are simply not enough pipelines to take away the natural gas being produced in the Permian Basin to markets where it can be used. The Wall Street Journal highlighted this issue in a Monday story: Pipelines running from the region’s Permian Basin to the Gulf Coast’s chemical plants, cities and export terminals are essentially full. Drillers in the Rockies and Canada already supply markets in the north and west. There is plenty of room on pipelines running south to Mexico,

[Subjectivist]

Question, the county just south of Toledo has a lot of old oil wells that are no longer pumping fluid and a brand new Natural Gas pipeline was just commissioned going through it about ten miles south of Toledo. If storage is an issue why not jump pump gas into the old oil field when needed for short term storage?

[coffeeguyzz]

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I was just doing some quick calculations on the cost for electricity per kilowatt hour for CCGT plants in Ohio and PA.
Pretty cheap.
But that also applies to the houses that heat, cook, warm water with piped in gas.
A single new well coming online in Pennsylvania will produce 5 Billion cubic feet first year, 25 billion over 40 year lifetime, and cost less than $8 million.
Every 1 Bcf can provide annual household electricity for 10,000 homes.
A standard 4 well pad - costing less than 35 million - 20 Bcf first year, juice for maybe 200,000 homes ... half a million people, easy.

Sub ... That would be the Nexus, with the Rover just a little farther south.
Both pipes will be injecting into existing storage in Michigan.

However, there are huge plans to develop new, vast underground storage in both West Virginia and southeast Ohio for NGLs.
Mountaineer Storage is the outfit leading the charge with a bunch of info online.
Basically, they plan to hollow out huge salt caverns with hydraulics, from what I understand, and store liquids, not methane, for future processing.

[GoghGoner]

Wow, the New England spot market was over $50 yesterday. Shale really generated the demand. This cold snap is interesting, future markets have largely discounted it but if we have continued cold it will definitely impact the mindset that we have plenty of NG to power everything.

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'T')otal U.S. gas consumption jumped 31 percent to 115.7 billion cubic feet on Tuesday from Friday. That's the most ever for this time of year in PointLogic Energy data back to 2007. Not only have more homes converted to the fuel from oil in Connecticut through Maine, the region's generators are more reliant on gas to produce electricity than anywhere else in the country.

Read more: http://www.lowellsun.com/news/ci_315551 ... z52YrBGCZX

[coffeeguyzz]

There is a great deal of supply of natgas available, just not in New England.
On Tuesday, when Algonquin Citygate spot went over $35/mmbtu, NY Mercantile Exchange January price dropped to $2.63/mmbtu.
That's heckuva spread, thanks in large part to New England's blocking two huge pipelines from delivering plentiful, cheap Appalachian Basin natgas.

This gas price is directly, dramatically impacting electricity prices with ISO spot well above $100/$200 Mwh several days running now (5 to 10 times normal pricing).
Even went over $500/Mwh this morning.
30% of the fuel presently burned for electricity generation is oil ... an obscenely high amount with astronomically high cost.
This, due to the residents' staunch opposition to pipeline build out.

[GoghGoner]

One of more interesting developments in 2018 will be that the US NG prices will no longer be entirely set by the US market. There has been very little relationship between NG futures and the global commodity cycles since I have started watching the market. With exports to Mexico increasing and especially the new LNG capacity, it is a brave new world for the US NG consumer. Like other commodities (metals, coal, oil, etc...), US power prices will rise and fall with China's economic fluctuations.

https://instituteforenergyresearch.org/analysis/u-s-become-major-lng-exporter/

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'T')here is currently only one operational liquefied natural gas (LNG) export terminal in the United States; it has been operating since early 2016. Cheniere Energy is exporting LNG at its Sabine Pass facility with three trains and a capacity of about 2 billion cubic feet per day. Its total capacity is expected to be 3.5 billion cubic feet per day when all 5 trains are completed. Cheniere is in the process of getting contracts and financing for a sixth train.

There are five additional LNG projects under construction with a total capacity of about 7.5 billion cubic feet per day that will come online in 2018 and 2019, making total U.S. LNG export capacity about 10 or 11 billion cubic feet per day within just a few years. Four more projects with a capacity of almost 7 billion cubic feet per day are approved but not yet under construction. These terminals will make the United States one of the top three LNG exporters in the world; the other two major exporters are Australia and Qatar.[i] Australia is expected to overtake Qatar as the world’s largest LNG exporter by 2020.[ii]

[coffeeguyzz]

With the rapid advances being made with the floaters - FSRUs and FLNGs - LNG use could spread fairly quickly throughout the globe in relatively remote areas.
As dramatic a cost reduction that Tellurian anticipates using pre-fabbed modular construction, the Golar-led ship centric technology will be an absolute game changer.

This is occurring simultaneously with advancing downstream hardware catering to the micro grid market.

[GoghGoner]

Record spot prices and future prices drop. Traders are looking ahead to warmer weather. Can't wait to see next week's inventory drop.

http://247wallst.com/energy-economy/2018/01/05/natural-gas-sets-new-price-record-ahead-of-northeast-storm/

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'A')t the major pipeline feeding New York City, Transco’s Zone 6, natural gas prices averaged $140.06 per million BTUs on Thursday, a jump of more than $91 per million BTUs in a single day. Thursday’s national average spot price rose by about $6 to $16.78.

According to Natural Gas Intelligence (NGI), Wednesday’s was the highest price spot price ever recorded in the United States. Before then, the highest price paid for a million BTUs was $125 in the “polar-vortex” winter of 2013–2014.