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Marcellus Production is Up 50 Percent 20 Aug 2013 | 05:11 pm
Production from the Marcellus Shale in Pennsylvania and West Virginia is 50% higher than last year at this time. Even with that production surge there could still be over 1000 wells “waiting on pipeli...
LNG is Killing the Manufacturing Renaissance? 20 Aug 2013 | 04:33 pm
An article on the New York Times website explores how some corporate leaders believe that exporting LNG out of the United States will severely damage a domestic manufacturing renaissance.
Putting a Throttle on Natural Gas Production? 20 Aug 2013 | 04:26 pm
Reports of rapidly rising natural gas production from the Marcellus, Utica and other shale formations, even while thousands of completed wells are waiting on pipeline, has some experts predicting a sl...
Landslide Damages Natural Gas Pipeline 19 Aug 2013 | 10:27 am
A landslide in Wetzel County, West Virginia damaged a natural gas pipeline causing a leak of wet natural gas. No injuries were reported.
Chesapeake to Drop New York Leases? 14 Aug 2013 | 10:13 am
Chesapeake Energy has been sitting on thousands of acres of natural gas leases in New York without the ability to drill. The company could be walking away from those leases as they expire instead of r...
Exxon Buys Oil Sands from ConocoPhillips 14 Aug 2013 | 10:09 am
ConocoPhillips is selling it stake in the Clyden oil sands leasehold near Alberta, Canada to ExxonMobil for $720 million. Exxon already has invested $11 billion in Canadian oil sand projects. Related...
Reducing Natural Gas Flaring in the Bakken 13 Aug 2013 | 04:49 pm
Sally Jewell, Secretary of the Interior, recently visited North Dakota. Part of her purpose there was to learn about natural gas flaring. About $3.6 million in natural gas is wasted through flaring in...
Third LNG Export Terminal Approved 13 Aug 2013 | 04:38 pm
A terminal near Lake Charles, Louisiana, was licensed to export 2 billion cubic feet of natural gas per day in the form of LNG to any country worldwide. This is the third LNG terminal licensed to expo...
Drilling Impact Fees vs Severance Taxes 9 Aug 2013 | 10:41 am
An article on Law.com explores the differences between impact fees and severance taxes on natural gas producers working in Pennsylvania’s Marcellus Shale.
The Future of Shale Gas 7 Aug 2013 | 10:18 am
“The availability of large quantities of shale gas should enable the United States to consume a predominantly domestic supply of gas for many years and produce more natural gas than it consumes.” Quot...
