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Pure-play Appalachian operator Rice Energy Inc. continues to scoop up land in Belmont County, OH, where all of its Utica Shale operations are centered, inking a more than $3.4 million deal Tuesday with county commissioners for another 424 gross acres.

The U.S. Department of Interior’s Bureau of Land Management (BLM) on Tuesday signed off on Noble Energy Inc.’s plan to drill oil wells on extensive leases it holds in northeast Nevada in Tabor Flats.

Bonanza Creek Energy Inc. has doubled its acreage in the Wattenberg field in Colorado to more than 70,000 net acres for a leasehold producing 700 boe/d net, 85% weighted to oil.

ExxonMobil Corp. will build its Permian Basin position to 1.5 million acres and Linn Energy LLC is becoming the biggest producer in the Hugoton Basin of Kansas after the producers agreed to a trade, sans cash, late Wednesday.

After months of negotiations, a lease that would provide Antero Resources Corp. with limited surface rights and access to nearly 7,000 acres of prime land in Belmont and Harrison counties, OH, has been approved by the Muskingum Watershed Conservancy District’s (MWCD) board of directors.

More than 21 million acres will be offered for lease in the Western Gulf of Mexico (GOM) Planning Area in August, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) said Tuesday.

The U.S. Department of Interior's Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is seeking public comments through April 23 on Noble Energy’s plans to drill a number of new oil wells as part of the extensive oil/gas leases it holds in northeast Nevada. BLM's work is part of what it designates as the Mary's River Oil/Gas Exploration Project environmental assessment (EA).

With one-third of its global energy reserves in the U.S. onshore, BP plc is preparing to do battle with shale-focused independents by separating its domestic operations, management said Tuesday.

More than 40 million acres in the Gulf of Mexico (GOM), with oil and natural gas leaseholds offered in the Central and Eastern planning areas, are going to be auctioned on March 19 in New Orleans, said the U.S. Department of Interior.