Administrative

A new completion design doubled initial production (IP) rates from the Marcellus Shale in southwestern Pennsylvania for Range Resources, the Fort Worth, TX-based company said Thursday.

Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) Michael J. Cianci Jr. has certified an uncontested settlement resolving claims that Tuscarora Gas Transmission Co. significantly overrecovered its cost of service, making its current transportation rates unjust and unreasonable.

Chesapeake Energy Corp. has named a former Boots & Coots executive to lead a newly created oilfield services unit that will house the producer’s growing business and complement its massive U.S. drilling program.

An administrative law judge (ALJ) at the Colorado Public Utilities Commission (PUC) circulated a proposed decision Monday on revising natural gas utility pipeline operator reporting requirements and clarifying regulations tied to direct sales from some transmission lines.

An administrative law judge (ALJ) at the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) has released a proposed decision outlining the procedures for eliminating current restrictions on the operating pressures of major natural gas transmission pipelines operated by Pacific Gas and Electric Co. (PG&E) in the wake of last year’s San Bruno pipe rupture and explosion. The ALJ also denied a recommendation by PG&E for raising future pipe pressures.

FERC Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) Michael J. Cianci Jr. has been tapped to hear the Section 5 complaint case in which Tuscarora Gas Transmission is accused of significantly overrecovering its cost of service, thus making its current transportation rates “unjust and unreasonable.”

Republican Sen. James Inhofe of Oklahoma, has requested all of the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) documents related to its investigation of water well contamination in North Texas by Range Resources Corp.

FERC Chief Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) Curtis L. Wagner Jr. issued two orders last Monday that lay the groundwork for Natural Gas Act Section 5 proceedings into allegations that Kinder Morgan Interstate Gas Transmission LLC and Ozark Gas Transmission LLC over-recovered their cost of service in 2008 and 2009, potentially resulting in unjust and unreasonable rates for shippers.

FERC Chief Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) Curtis L. Wagner Jr. issued two orders Monday that lay the groundwork for Natural Gas Act Section 5 proceedings into allegations that Kinder Morgan Interstate Gas Transmission LLC and Ozark Gas Transmission LLC over-recovered their cost of service in 2008 and 2009, potentially resulting in unjust and unreasonable rates for shippers.