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WOODSFIELD Monroe County officials sent a letter to the Ohio Department of Natural Resources to express support for the Powhatan Salt Co.’s permit application for its salt cavern storage project near Clarington.
On Tuesday, the Monroe County Board of Commissioners met with David Hooker, president of Mountaineer NGL Storage, who provided Commissioners Mick Schumacher, Diane Burkhart and Bill Bolon with an update on the Powhatan Salt Co. project, a sister company to Mountaineer NGL Storage. PSC is working to secure permits to move forward with construction of salt storage facilities that would support numerous proposed projects in the Ohio Valley, including the proposed PTT Global Chemical ethane cracker plant.
The natural gas storage report from the EIA for the week ending January 29th indicated that the amount of natural gas held in underground storage in the US fell by 192 billion cubic feet to 2,689 billion cubic feet by the end of the week, which left our gas supplies 41 billion cubic feet, or 1.5% higher than the 2,648 billion cubic feet that were in storage on January 29th of last year, and 198 billion cubic feet, or 7.9% above the five-year average of 2,491 billion cubic feet of natural gas that have been in storage as of the 29th of January in recent years..the 192 billion cubic feet that were drawn out of US natural gas storage this week was a bit less than the average forecast of a 195 billion cubic foot withdrawal from an S&P Global Platts survey of analysts, but more than the 155 billion cubic foot withdrawal from natural gas storage seen during the corresponding week of a year earlier, and also more than the average withdrawal of 146 billion cubic feet of natural gas that have