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Range Resources Corp. on Friday pleaded no contest to charges brought by the Pennsylvania Attorney General’s (AG) Office and a statewide grand jury as part of a two-year criminal investigation into unconventional oil and natural gas development.

Denver-based Extraction Oil & Gas Inc. announced Sunday it has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the District of Delaware, citing the impacts of Covid-19 and low commodity prices on its business.

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Appalachian natural gas heavyweight Antero Resources Corp. said Monday it has closed an overriding royalty interest (ORRI) transaction with Sixth Street Partners LLC that will result in proceeds of up to $402 million.

Following last Friday’s sell-off, natural gas futures gave up further ground Monday on modestly cooler weather forecasts and lingering concerns about the coronavirus pandemic and its impact on industrial energy demand. Persistently low liquefied natural gas (LNG) volumes also continued to weigh on markets.

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American Petroleum Institute (API) President Mike Sommers has sent a letter to U.S. officials expressing the group’s worry that recent actions by the Mexican government are hurting investors in the Mexican energy sector.

Colombia’s National Hydrocarbons Agency (ANH) will award contracts for hydraulic fracturing pilot projects to interested companies by October, according to media reports.

Although global oil demand is expected to fall by a record 8.1 million b/d in 2020 because of Covid-19, 2021 should be a much different story, the International Energy Agency (IEA) said Tuesday.