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		<title>31 New Shale Well Permits Reported for PA-OH-WV Jun 15 &#8211; 21</title>
		<link>https://marcellusdrilling.com/2026/06/31-new-shale-well-permits-reported-for-pa-oh-wv-jun-15-21/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jim Willis]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2026 16:06:05 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Marcellus/Utica region received 31 new drilling permits last week, June 15 &#8211; 21, up from the pathetic 2 permits issued two weeks ago. However, not all 31 permits reported last week were issued last week. Ohio, which is increasingly tardy in updating its public reports, included permits in last week’s report that should have...]]></description>
		
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		<title>Devon Energy CEO: Asset Review to Finish in Months, Not a Year</title>
		<link>https://marcellusdrilling.com/2026/06/devon-energy-ceo-asset-review-to-finish-in-months-not-a-year/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jim Willis]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2026 16:05:02 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In early May, Devon Energy completed its buyout of and merger with Coterra Energy, paying $21.4 billion in Devon stock (see Devon and Coterra Complete Merger, Launches $8B Buyback Program). After the merger, Devon CEO Clay Gaspar said his company was reviewing all of the combined assets with a view toward optimizing its portfolio. There...]]></description>
		
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		<title>Williams Open Season to Expand Transco Gas Eastbound to PA, NJ, MD</title>
		<link>https://marcellusdrilling.com/2026/06/williams-open-season-to-expand-transco-gas-eastbound-to-pa-nj-md/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jim Willis]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2026 16:04:59 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A new pipeline project to tell you about! That&#8217;s always a red-letter day here at MDN. The mighty Transco pipeline (subsidiary of Williams) is holding a binding open season (which ends today) for its proposed Leidy Access Expansion, which would add up to 175,000 Dth/d (roughly 175 MMcf/d) of firm capacity to move Marcellus/Utica gas...]]></description>
		
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		<title>Ohio Gets Ready to Open Another 23K Ac. of State Land for Fracking</title>
		<link>https://marcellusdrilling.com/2026/06/ohio-gets-ready-to-open-another-23k-ac-of-state-land-for-fracking/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jim Willis]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2026 16:03:56 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Belmont County]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Ohio Oil and Gas Land Management Commission (OGLMC) is set to vote on Monday to open roughly 23,000 acres of publicly owned wildlife preserves in eastern Ohio to fracking. The panel will weigh accepting bids on about 15,000 acres split between Jockey Hollow and Egypt Valley, plus opening another 8,000 acres of Egypt Valley....]]></description>
		
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		<title>OH Gov. DeWine Signs Bill Updating Law Governing Oil &#038; Gas Wells</title>
		<link>https://marcellusdrilling.com/2026/06/oh-gov-dewine-signs-bill-updating-law-governing-oil-gas-wells/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jim Willis]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2026 16:02:54 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In October 2025, we reported that Ohio Republican Senators had introduced Senate Bill (SB) 219, the first significant update to Ohio’s oil and gas laws since the Kasich administration more than a decade ago (see Ohio Bill Makes Major Changes to Law Governing O&#38;G Wells). SB 219, introduceon d by Sen. Al Landis, aims to...]]></description>
		
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		<title>Riverkeeper Claims Dead Philly LNG Project has Come Back to Life</title>
		<link>https://marcellusdrilling.com/2026/06/riverkeeper-claims-dead-philly-lng-project-has-come-back-to-life/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jim Willis]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2026 16:01:51 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In early 2024, we reported that Penn America Energy CEO Franc James, the potential builder of the proposed Penn America LNG export facility in the Philadelphia area, said that he “pumped the brakes” on the project but that it wasn’t dead yet (see Penn LNG CEO Says Philly Export Project on Hold, “Not Dead Yet”)....]]></description>
		
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		<title>MDN&#8217;s Energy Stories of Interest: Fri, Jun 26, 2026</title>
		<link>https://marcellusdrilling.com/2026/06/mdns-energy-stories-of-interest-fri-jun-26-2026/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jim Willis]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2026 16:00:49 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[MARCELLUS/UTICA REGION: Allegheny Township gets donation from CNX for police fleet; Northeast gas demand down as summer starts; Data center ‘pause button’ bill passes PA House nearly unanimously; OTHER U.S. REGIONS: New York’s Climate Act façade is crumbling; NATIONAL: U.S. natural gas futures gain on warming weather outlook; Trump buys back four more offshore wind...]]></description>
		
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		<title>New 953-MW Utica-Fired Power Plant Goes Online in Lordstown, OH</title>
		<link>https://marcellusdrilling.com/2026/06/new-953-mw-utica-fired-power-plant-goes-online-in-lordstown-oh/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jim Willis]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 15:42:36 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Electrical Generation]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[In January 2017, Clean Energy Future (CEF), based in Massachusetts, announced it would build a second Utica gas-fired power plant in Lordstown next to the Lordstown Energy Center (see Details on Newly Announced Trumbull Energy Center Electric Plant). In late 2022, the project finished securing its financing ($1.2 billion), and construction began (see Trumbull Energy...]]></description>
		
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		<title>FERC Gives OK for MVP Southgate Construction to Begin in N.C.</title>
		<link>https://marcellusdrilling.com/2026/06/ferc-gives-ok-for-mvp-southgate-construction-to-begin-in-n-c/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jim Willis]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 15:41:33 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[This is a momentous occasion. Yesterday, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) issued a &#8220;Notice to Proceed with Construction&#8221; order authorizing Mountain Valley Pipeline (owned by EQT Corporation) to proceed with construction of MVP Southgate pipeline in North Carolina. This follows FERC granting permission to begin building Southgate in Virginia in April (see MVP Southgate...]]></description>
		
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		<title>PA Anti-Shale Groups Push for Bill that Defacto Bans Data Centers</title>
		<link>https://marcellusdrilling.com/2026/06/pa-anti-shale-groups-push-for-bill-that-defacto-bans-data-centers/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jim Willis]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 15:40:31 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Pennsylvania radical green groups, including PennFuture, the Center for Coalfield Justice, and the Sierra Club Pennsylvania Chapter, continued a full-court press against AI data centers in the Keystone State yesterday. Just yesterday, we reported that Food &#38; Water Watch had assembled dozens (perhaps one hundred at most) protesters in Harrisburg on Tuesday to support a...]]></description>
		
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		<title>Residents in NEPA Town Sell to Data Centers, Get Rich, &#038; Move</title>
		<link>https://marcellusdrilling.com/2026/06/residents-in-nepa-town-sell-to-data-centers-get-rich-move/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jim Willis]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 15:39:28 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Last week, MDN told you about a group of landowners in Salem Township (Luzerne County), PA, near Wilkes-Barre, who had banded together to offer their land for sale to a data center project and potentially become very wealthy (see NEPA Landowners Line Up to Become AI Millionaires by Selling Land). We have an update to...]]></description>
		
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		<title>MSC Analysis Destroys Antis&#8217; Lies re Setbacks, Wastewater Radiation</title>
		<link>https://marcellusdrilling.com/2026/06/msc-analysis-destroys-antis-lies-re-setbacks-wastewater-radiation/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jim Willis]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 15:38:26 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The thing about the political left is that they NEVER give up. EVER. And so, neither must we. The left wants to destroy new shale drilling in Pennsylvania. They couldn&#8217;t do it via regulation. They couldn&#8217;t convince a majority of residents that shale drilling is bad. So they search out other ways to make it...]]></description>
		
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		<title>URTeC Speakers Debate Whether U.S. Shale Industry has Peaked</title>
		<link>https://marcellusdrilling.com/2026/06/urtec-speakers-debate-whether-u-s-shale-industry-has-peaked/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jim Willis]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 15:37:23 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[At the 2026 Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTeC) conference in Houston, Texas, experts debated whether U.S. shale has &#8220;peaked.&#8221; AllianceBernstein&#8217;s Bob Brackett noted that the sector has added 10 million bbl/d of oil since 2013, with Delaware Basin wells producing 300,000 bbl in two years, but flagged stalled productivity since 2021 and stubbornly low recovery...]]></description>
		
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		<title>MDN&#8217;s Energy Stories of Interest: Thu, Jun 25, 2026</title>
		<link>https://marcellusdrilling.com/2026/06/mdns-energy-stories-of-interest-thu-jun-25-2026/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jim Willis]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 15:36:21 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[OTHER U.S. REGIONS: Patriot Rail&#8217;s Hydra expands sustainability efforts with new CNG truck; Colorado’s ‘right to natural gas’ measure submits signatures to qualify for November ballot; NATIONAL: U.S. natural gas futures gain ahead of inventory data; Affordability in, renewables out (again); Even Einstein admitted he was wrong &#8211; we can’t expect as much from Al...]]></description>
		
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		<title>Marcellus/Utica Pipelines to Flow More Molecules to Other Markets</title>
		<link>https://marcellusdrilling.com/2026/06/marcellus-utica-pipelines-to-flow-more-molecules-to-other-markets/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jim Willis]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2026 15:23:18 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[RBN Energy has published an excellent series of blog posts discussing pipeline projects under development within and beyond the Marcellus/Utica production area that, collectively, will enable at least a few more Bcf/d to reach customers in the Northeast, the Southeast, and the Midwest by 2030. Part 5 of RBN&#8217;s Northeast gas series (below) examines pipeline...]]></description>
		
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