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• Haynesville Natural Gas Production Sets New Record… Again
  Featured image from Midwest Capital Advisors Guest “Déjà vu all over again” by David Middleton From the US Energy Information Administration: Just over one year ago… Frac On! From 2000…
• Haynesville Shale: Record Natural Gas Production
  Guest “Fracking A, Bubba,” by David Middleton The Haynesville Shale (technically Haynesville/Bossier) in northeast Texas and northwest Louisiana is the third largest natural gas play, in terms of production rate…
• Hayneville Shale: Record Natural Gas Production
  Guest “Fracking A, Bubba,” by David Middleton The Haynesville Shale (technically Haynesville/Bossier) in northeast Texas and northwest Louisiana is the third largest natural gas play, in terms of production rate…
• Amid energy crisis, UK Government uses Regulatory Death Curse on gas industry
  Lesson 4-billion-and-one in How Big Government Screws Everything Up
• “Fossil Fuels are a strategic asset” say people watching UK and EU perfect gas storm
  It’s not even winter yet but suddenly all eyes are on the gas prices Gas through the roof… Thanks to fear of climate change voodoo many nations in the EU have effectively stopped exploring for gas and decided not to frack their shale deposits...
• Appalachian Basin Shale Gas Production Hits Record High
  Guest “Frac on!” by David Middleton SEPTEMBER 1, 2021Shale natural gas production in the Appalachian Basin sets records in first half of 2021 Dry natural gas production from shale formations in the Appalachian…
• One Of The US’s Largest Natural Gas Companies Goes Bankrupt. Here’s Why Russia Is Partially To Blame
  From The Daily Caller Energy Chris White Tech Reporter April 03, 2020 11:41 AM ET One of the largest shale drillers in the country filed for bankruptcy recently as the natural gas industry deals with a one-two punch of coronavirus fears and Russia’s...
• Alpine High: Oil’s well that ends well… Except when it doesn’t.
  Guest “you can’t win them all” by David Middleton Apache calls it quits on Alpine High after $3 billion chargeRachel Adams-Heard, Bloomberg, Thursday, February 27, 2020 Apache Corp...
• Fewer Recessions Thanks to the Shale Revolution
  Originally published in WorldNetDaily. Guest post by Steve Goreham The United States economy currently enjoys the longest period of expansion in history. The economy has been growing for more than ten and a half years, since the end of the Great Recession...
• Chevron’s $10B Impairment: “another symptom of peak oil demand and the demise of the oil industry”?
  Guest oil patch news by David Middleton Chevron recently announced that it would take a $10-11 billion charge against net earnings in Q4 2019, largely due to its exposure to Appalachia shale gas plays (Marcellus, Utica, etc.). As a result of Chevron’s...

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