“Natural gas is the biggest green initiative on the planet. This is going to bring peace to the world,” says Toby Rice, president and CEO of the largest U.S. independent gas producer, EQT Corp. Here he describes Appalachia’s potential and the further advancements to come.

The Appalachian Basin has grown into the world’s greatest gas field. Between 2010 and 2019, production from the Marcellus and Utica grew from less than 2 bcf/d to 34 bcf/d - a 17 fold increase! It was enough to help satiate domestic demand and lead to a surge of LNG exports. Since then, though, growth, particularly out of the Northeast, has slowed due in large part to takeaway constraints. But, contrary to the popular narrative, the U.S. and the rest of the world will need more gas going forward. We've got the gas if only we can build the infrastructure to get it to the markets that need it.

New LNG export capacity from the East Coast is in discussion, while more than 9.5 Bcf/d of additional U.S. LNG export capacity is expected, bringing total capacity to some 22 Bcf/d by year-end 2027. Additional growth of nearly 6 Bcf/d to total capacity of some 28 Bcf/d is expected by year-end 2030. Where’s it all going to come from? How does Appalachia get a piece?

As the last 20 miles of Mountain Valley Pipeline are underway, another 2 Bcf/d of Marcellus and Utica natgas will be unlocked. What will MVP do or not do to move more gas out of the basin? How about NGLs? Will liquid infrastructure need to be expanded to keep pace with natural gas liquid growth?

Leading producers describe their latest well results, field cost inflation, capacity constraints, emissions mitigation and access to capital as they work to convert molecules into dollars.

Size matters, including liquidity in trading. And it’s the era of the $10-billion-EV operator. Debt to ebitda is in lockdown. Preferred used to be 1.5x. Now the maximum is less than 1.0x. Shareholders have been in an uproar over even a 0.1x increase in the metric. Hear about what’s in bounds and what’s out of bounds today and a new wave of consolidations.

Having divested holdings in oily plays, Chesapeake Energy has returned to its natgas-focused roots, concentrating its capital and technology on the Haynesville, in which it drilled the discovery well in 2007, and the Marcellus, where it brought in the U.S. industry’s first shale JV with an overseas E&P giant. Learn about its latest innovations in the field.

Operators are having great success in the mature-oil phase of the three-phase Ordovician Utica, the oldest deposition of North America’s major resource plays. Here’s the latest on results there as well as in the wet-gas window.

Federal regulators and courts have stymied growth opportunities for the basin’s operators and shippers. Now, the option of growth by consolidation has met with federal pushback. What to do? Here’s a look at how one major deal was finally closed.

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