Jamison Cocklin

The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) will issue no citations to Chevron Appalachia LLC for an explosion and fire that burned for days at a three-well pad operated by the company in southwest Pennsylvania in February.

The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) has sent a letter to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Mid-Atlantic office, imploring it to shut down two Class II injection wells operated by a West Virginia-based company that NRDC alleges have not been properly regulated by the state.

Range Resources will begin remediation work on Monday to reclaim the land where a controversial water impoundment is thought to have leaked wastewater.

Royal Dutch Shell plc on Thursday announced two more agreements in a bid to restructure its North American portfolio and realign its shale operations with the divestiture of 126,000 net acres in North Louisiana’s Haynesville Shale and the Pinedale Anticline of Wyoming.

Appalachian pure-play Eclipse Resources Corp. produced 42 MMcfe/d in the second quarter, a sixty-fold increase from the 679 Mcfe/d it reported last year at the same time.

EV Energy Partners LP (EVEP) faced more operational challenges last quarter, with delays in well completions in the Barnett Shale and compression constraints that hampered flows on its midstream system in Ohio.

Rex Energy Corp. has agreed to purchase 207,000 net acres from Royal Dutch Shell plc affiliate SWEPI LP for $120 million, in a move that it said will significantly bolster its liquids-rich core in western Pennsylvania.

The Utica Shale continues to make headlines, with its third milestone moment coming last week when the Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR) released data showing that more than 1,000 horizontal wells have been drilled in the formation.

ThePennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) has fined Southwestern Energy Co. $128,031 for drilling five Marcellus Shale wells in Bradford County after its permits had expired. A DEP investigation revealed that Southwestern had drilled the Reeve Sutton 4H well pad in Herrick Township for nine days in October 2012, roughly 18 months after its permit had expired. The agency also discovered similar violations that occurred in the same year and in 2013 at four other well sites, where it said Southwestern drilled wells with permits that had been expired for four to 16 months. The company received violation letters from the agency in January 2013, but drilled two of the four wells after receiving them, according to DEP.