Charlie Passut

Range Resources Corp. announced another record high for quarterly production — this time achieving 960 MMcfe/d for 3Q2013– thanks in large part to the continuing success of its drilling program in the Marcellus Shale.

Anti-shale protesters have taken down part of a barricade across a highway in New Brunswick but continue to block access to a facility where Southwestern Energy Co. (SWN) parks vehicles and seismic equipment.

Natural gas will continue to grow in popularity as a source fuel for power generation in North America, but it still faces obstacles to catching on in other parts of the world, in large part because of disparate gas prices, according to a report by the World Energy Council (WEC).

In a possible sign that the Heinz Endowments is shifting away from support for hydraulic fracturing (fracking), Robert Vagt announced Monday that he is stepping down as president of the Pittsburgh-based philanthropic organization.

Officials in Harrison County, OH, have agreed to lease more than 300 acres of the county’s industrial park for Utica Shale oil and gas drilling.

Officials in Harrison County, OH, have agreed to lease more than 300 acres of the county’s industrial park for Utica Shale oil and gas drilling.

A court case to decide the fate of local ordinances, or “home rule” laws, in the emerging Utica Shale is advancing before the Supreme Court of Ohio.

Range Resources Corp. says it is complying with a court order to obtain and provide information for all of the chemicals used at a Marcellus Shale drilling and impoundment site in Washington County, PA, but it took issue with media reports suggesting that the company doesn’t know what chemicals are used in its hydraulic fracturing (fracking) operations.

Regulators with the Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR) are drafting rules governing centralized earthen impoundments that would temporarily hold wastewater from oil and gas drilling.