Energy Updates

The COVID-19 virus has shocked the globe in more ways than one. While world leaders work to mitigate the virus’s effects on their...

Shell officials said the company will temporarily suspend construction of its ethane cracker plant in Beaver County after pressure from...

Companies involved in the shale gas industry in Pennsylvania are under the microscope of several state and federal agencies. The industry...

To frack or not to frack? This question has grown into a key issue for many of Pennsylvania’s voters. In its latest poll, Franklin &...

A bill that would provide an incentive for downstream developers to bring their business to the Commonwealth by way of significant tax...

The state and its municipalities are being impacted by the natural gas downturn. Both Act 13 impact fees and permitting revenues are...

Contributed by: Tim Yeung A 2016 review article by Hays et al. suggested a possible link between noise from unconventional oil and gas...

The lead executive in charge of the construction of Shell’s ethane cracker plant in Beaver County, Pa., recently gave an overview of the...

With the rise in oil and gas extraction from deep shale formations comes an increase in wastes, specifically waste water (frack water)...

Oil and gas drilling has been occurring in Pennsylvania since 1859, when the first commercial oil well was drilled. A major problem...

There is no shortage of natural gas in the United States. This, however, is not always a good thing. Since 2012, when the ‘shale boom’...

The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Resources recently revoked some of the Beaver County Conservation District’s permitting...

According to the Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources (DCNR), natural gas extraction takes place on...

Natural gas companies are looking for better, more efficient ways to transport and dispose of contaminated wastewater used in the...

Are oil and gas companies targeting lower socioeconomic areas for wastewater injection wellsite locations? A study from 2018 explored...

The most abundant source of natural gas is not located in shale formations, but rather, in the depth of our oceans. Natural gas hydrates...

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court upheld a borough’s denial of a conditional use permit for unconventional oil and gas development in an oil...

Comfortable weather is causing uncertainty in the natural gas futures market. Natural gas futures, one of the metrics commodities traders...

Many see nuclear energy as the best alternative to coal. Two bills to subsidize nuclear energy to the tune of approximately $500M, which...

On March 8, the Commonwealth Court held that a well operator could challenge Plum Borough’s zoning ordinance restricting the location of...