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		<title>EQT Exec Corrects the Record: We Never Said 100 Bcf/d of Demand</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jim Willis]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2026 15:37:17 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;ve been to an energy conference in the last year, you&#8217;ve heard someone say EQT is forecasting 100 Bcf/d of new natural gas demand by 2030. It happened at THE SUMMIT: Appalachia in Pittsburgh on July 28 — a panelist cited the figure at midday. A few hours later, on the same boat, the...]]></description>
		
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		<title>FERC Green-Lights $5.2B Kinder Morgan Southeast Gas Push</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jim Willis]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2026 15:36:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Kinder Morgan]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[We missed one, and it&#8217;s a big one. On July 31, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) handed Kinder Morgan certificates of public convenience and necessity for BOTH of its blockbuster Southeast projects — the Mississippi Crossing Project (MSX) on Tennessee Gas Pipeline, and the South System Expansion 4 Project (SSE4) on Southern Natural Gas...]]></description>
		
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		<title>OH Point Pleasant Deep Rights Case vs. Rice Ends Days Before Trial</title>
		<link>https://marcellusdrilling.com/2026/08/oh-point-pleasant-deep-rights-case-vs-rice-ends-days-before-trial/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jim Willis]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2026 15:35:12 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Belmont County]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[EQT Corp]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[One of the biggest landowner-vs.-driller cases in Ohio shale history just ended — with no verdict, no dollar figure, and a two-page piece of paper. On July 29, a group of Belmont County mineral owners and Rice Drilling D LLC (owned by EQT) jointly asked a federal judge to throw out the case for good,...]]></description>
		
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		<title>NOG Buys 80 Utica Locations, Says Land Bonuses Up 50+%</title>
		<link>https://marcellusdrilling.com/2026/08/nog-buys-80-utica-locations-says-land-bonuses-up-50/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jim Willis]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2026 15:34:09 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Energy Companies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Northern Oil & Gas]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Northern Oil &#38; Gas (NOG) is a Minnesota company most people file under &#8220;Bakken,&#8221; so its quarterly report doesn&#8217;t usually land on our radar. It should have. NOG is the largest publicly traded non-operator in the country — it buys minority working interests and lets somebody else run the rig — and after last week&#8217;s...]]></description>
		
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		<title>CPK Update: Utica Gas to Data Centers, Marcellus Gas to Delmarva</title>
		<link>https://marcellusdrilling.com/2026/08/cpk-update-utica-gas-to-data-centers-marcellus-gas-to-delmarva/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jim Willis]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2026 15:33:06 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Chesapeake Utilities]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Chesapeake Utilities Corporation (NYSE: CPK) is a Dover, Delaware utility holding company that most folks in our patch have never heard of — which is a shame, because CPK owns two systems that Marcellus and Utica molecules flow through every single day. The company posted second quarter results Aug. 6 and held its analyst call...]]></description>
		
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		<title>Gas Transmission Work Doubles at Pipeline Builder ESOA</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jim Willis]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2026 15:32:03 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[When a pipeline construction contractor tells you its gas transmission work has more than doubled in a single year, that&#8217;s not a stock story — that&#8217;s a leading indicator. Energy Services of America (Nasdaq: ESOA), the Huntington, WV-based contractor that actually digs the ditches and welds the pipe across Appalachia, reported fiscal third quarter results...]]></description>
		
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		<title>Infinity Hires Deal CFO, Encino Finance Man; Sproule Out the Door</title>
		<link>https://marcellusdrilling.com/2026/08/infinity-hires-deal-cfo-encino-finance-man-sproule-out-the-door/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jim Willis]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2026 15:31:00 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Energy Companies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[INR/Infinity Natural Resources]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Infinity Natural Resources (INR) put out two press releases Monday night. One was second quarter earnings (we&#8217;ll cover that separately after today&#8217;s call). The other one is the interesting one. Infinity announced that Cary Baetz will become Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, and Andrew Judge will become Senior Vice President of Finance, both...]]></description>
		
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		<title>MDN&#8217;s Energy Stories of Interest: Tue, Aug 11, 2026</title>
		<link>https://marcellusdrilling.com/2026/08/mdns-energy-stories-of-interest-tue-aug-11-2026/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jim Willis]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2026 15:30:58 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[MARCELLUS/UTICA REGION: PA labor groups meet to plan abandoned well remediation; OTHER U.S. REGIONS: Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation fall grant cycle now open; NATIONAL: U.S. natural gas futures rebound as near-term weather warms; Which USA oil major produced the most in 2Q 2026?; The weather isn’t getting worse &#8211; the lawsuits are; INTERNATIONAL: Oil climbs...]]></description>
		
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		<title>Manchin Tells Pittsburgh Crowd He Wrote the IRA in Secret</title>
		<link>https://marcellusdrilling.com/2026/08/manchin-tells-pittsburgh-crowd-he-wrote-the-ira-in-secret/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jim Willis]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2026 15:37:59 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Industrywide Issues]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Meetings]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Former U.S. Senator Joe Manchin (D/I-WV) closed out THE SUMMIT: Appalachia in Pittsburgh on July 28 with something you don&#8217;t often get from a retired politician — a confession. Speaking aboard the Gateway Clipper riverboat to a room full of producers, midstreamers, bankers and landmen, Manchin ditched his prepared remarks entirely (&#8220;I can&#8217;t give a...]]></description>
		
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		<title>$105M in Shale Money Headed to Ohio Wildlife Areas</title>
		<link>https://marcellusdrilling.com/2026/08/105m-in-shale-money-headed-to-ohio-wildlife-areas/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jim Willis]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2026 15:36:56 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR) will ask the state Controlling Board on Monday, August 17, for authority to spend $105 million of oil and gas lease money on Ohio&#8217;s wildlife areas — construction, renovation and grants, on a budget line that currently has zero dollars appropriated for the year. It&#8217;s the biggest single...]]></description>
		
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		<title>Big Green Runs Back to Court to Block Drilling in Ohio&#8217;s Wayne NF</title>
		<link>https://marcellusdrilling.com/2026/08/big-green-runs-back-to-court-to-block-drilling-in-ohios-wayne-nf/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jim Willis]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2026 15:35:53 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Anti-Drilling/Fossil Fuel]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Here we go again. The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) finally issued three permits to drill on Wayne National Forest (WNF) land in Monroe County, Ohio, back in May — the first new drilling permits in Ohio&#8217;s only national forest in years. Predictably, the same coalition of green groups that has kept a lid on...]]></description>
		
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		<title>6 Landowners Sent to Arbitration in XTO Butler Co. Royalty Suit</title>
		<link>https://marcellusdrilling.com/2026/08/6-landowners-sent-to-arbitration-in-xto-butler-co-royalty-suit/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jim Willis]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2026 15:34:50 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Butler County]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[A federal magistrate judge has excluded six people (well, five leases covering six people and one municipal authority) from the 2,300-plus-member class suing XTO Energy over royalty underpayments in Butler County — not because XTO won a big legal fight, but because both sides agreed these particular leases require arbitration, not a courtroom. This is...]]></description>
		
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		<title>Off-Grid Data Center System Runs on NatGas, Makes Its Own Water</title>
		<link>https://marcellusdrilling.com/2026/08/off-grid-data-center-system-runs-on-natgas-makes-its-own-water/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jim Willis]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2026 15:33:47 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[AI]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Rochester, NY-based Energy Concepts has unveiled a modular natural gas power system called &#8220;Plato5X&#8221; that lets AI data centers generate their own electricity, make their own water, cool themselves, and capture 90% of their carbon emissions — without touching the local power grid or municipal water supply. Each 5-megawatt module runs on natural gas and...]]></description>
		
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		<title>The 1938 Law Running Your Pipeline Projects Was Never Updated</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jim Willis]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2026 15:32:45 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The last 18 months have been about as good as it gets for anyone who moves Marcellus and Utica molecules. President Trump&#8217;s Executive Order 14154 killed the Biden LNG export pause on day one. FERC rewrote its environmental review procedures in June 2025 to speed things up. And FERC finally drove a stake through Order...]]></description>
		
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		<title>M-U Rig Count Loses 1, Cumulative @ 35; Nat’l Even @ 588</title>
		<link>https://marcellusdrilling.com/2026/08/m-u-rig-count-loses-1-cumulative-35-natl-even-588/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jim Willis]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2026 15:31:42 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Last week, the Pennsylvania Marcellus lost one rig, now down to 16 active rigs after running 17 rigs for 12 weeks in a row. Bummer. Ohio lost a rig two weeks ago and didn&#8217;t pick it back up last week, remaining at 10 active rigs for the second week. And West Virginia picked up Ohio&#8217;s...]]></description>
		
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