Appalachia

Cabot Oil & Gas Corp. is backing out of the Rockies to focus on Appalachia and the Midcontinent.

Anadarko Petroleum Corp. keeps drilling faster all the time, particularly in the Rocky Mountains, the southern and Appalachia regions, according to the company’s latest operations update. Second quarter earnings got a lift from record sales volumes of liquids production.

National Fuel Gas Supply Corp. (Supply) and Empire Pipeline Inc. are holding two open seasons offering firm transportation capacity from the Marcellus Shale in central and southwestern Pennsylvania.

Chief Oil & Gas LLC, which in 2005 was the second largest natural gas producer in the Barnett Shale, is showing it can do the same in the Marcellus Shale, reporting that output in Pennsylvania has reached the 100 MMcfe/d mark from 42 wells.

Spectra Energy Corp.’s Texas Eastern Transmission LP is holding an open season through Jan. 15 for the Texas Eastern Appalachia to Market Expansion 2013 (TEAM 2013), a proposed expansion of its system to deliver additional Appalachian and Marcellus Shale gas to the Northeast. The TEAM 2013 open season is in addition to the previously announced TEAM 2012 expansion, which will offer customers up to 300 MMcf/d of capacity by the fourth quarter of 2012 (see NGI, Nov. 23). TEAM 2013, with an estimated late 2013 in-service date, will target an expansion of 500 MMcf/d. The project will be scalable and sized to meet customer needs. Shippers will have the opportunity to nominate services from multiple existing and proposed receipt points on the Texas Eastern system within the Appalachian and Marcellus Shale production regions to delivery points across Texas Eastern’s market area. For information, contact Riga at (412) 928-3654 or Sean Foley, project director, at (617) 560-1359. Additional information also is at www.spectraenergy.com.

Spectra Energy Corp.’s Texas Eastern Transmission LP is holding an open season through Jan. 15 for the Texas Eastern Appalachia to Market Expansion 2013 (TEAM 2013), a proposed expansion of its system to deliver additional Appalachian and Marcellus Shale gas to the Northeast.

Spectra Energy subsidiary Texas Eastern Transmission LP opened a nonbinding open season for its proposed Texas Eastern Appalachia to Market (TEAM) expansion to transport emerging Appalachian gas production to markets, including those in the Mid-Atlantic and New England states (see related story). The TEAM expansion program has a targeted capacity of approximately 300 MMcf/d but will be scalable and sized to meet customer needs, the company said. The first phase is scheduled to be in service as early as November 2011. TEAM would provide shippers with the opportunity to design transportation services from multiple existing and proposed receipt points on the Texas Eastern system within the Appalachian production region in West Virginia, Ohio and Pennsylvania that span Texas Eastern’s M-2 and M-3 market zones to delivery points across Texas Eastern’s market area including Lambertville, NJ; the Steckman Ridge Storage project in Bedford, PA; near Transco Station 195 in York County, PA; Dominion Transmission at Chambersburg, PA; and Columbia Gas Transmission near Eagle, PA. The project is expected to have more than 30 interconnects. The project would allow producers to connect Appalachian supplies to premium markets and shippers to reach back to supply points in the West Virginia and Pennsylvania regions, the company said. The open season runs until Aug. 29. Interested parties should contact Bob Riga at (617) 560-1436 or rgriga@spectraenergy.com, or Sean Foley at (617) 560-1359 or spfoley@spectraenergy.com.

Spectra Energy subsidiary Texas Eastern Transmission LP opened a nonbinding open season for its proposed Texas Eastern Appalachia to Market (TEAM) expansion to transport emerging Appalachian gas production to markets, including those in the Mid-Atlantic and New England states, the company said Monday.

Losses of up to a dime at several scattered points, primarily in Appalachia and the Gulf Coast, kept price advances from running the board Monday. Predictions of above-normal temperatures this week in the eastern two-thirds of the U.S. and buzz about the possibility of a disturbance moving toward southern Florida from the Bahamas strengthening and getting into the Gulf of Mexico were the chief market boosters.