Assure

ExxonMobil Corp. last week launched a public relations campaign and Chevron Corp. is working with industry groups to assure the public that drilling unconventional wells using hydraulic fracturing (hydrofracking) is safe. The moves preceded separate annual meetings where shareholders voiced growing support for more disclosure about the well stimulation practices.

ExxonMobil Corp. this week launched a public relations campaign while Chevron Corp. is working with industry groups to assure the public that drilling unconventional wells using hydraulic fracturing (hydrofracking) is safe. The moves preceded separate annual meetings where shareholders voiced growing support for more disclosure about the well stimulation practices.

In this “age of unconventionals,” shale gas and oil producers have to be as open as possible about their drilling operations, an ExxonMobil Corp. executive said last week.

The Interior Department has opened an investigation into allegations that Utah Bureau of Land Management (BLM) officials made commitments to “fix” new land-use plans to assure more oil and natural gas development on wilderness-quality lands in the state.

The Interior Department has opened an investigation into allegations that Utah Bureau of Land Management (BLM) officials made commitments to “fix” new land-use plans to assure more oil and natural gas development on wilderness-quality lands in the state.

Against the backdrop of an expected increase in natural gas prices this winter, FERC is “acting to assure that prices are being driven by fundamentals, not by other considerations, such as market manipulation,” FERC Chairman Joseph Kelliher said on Tuesday.

Seminole Energy Services LLC is seeking an order from FERC guaranteeing the refund of contested penalty charges that were assessed by Kinder Morgan Interstate Gas Transmission LLC (KMIGT) in the event that the company’s challenge to the penalties is upheld by the Commission.

In an effort to restore price certainty in the markets, FERC at a minimum should implement standards requiring jurisdictional companies to show the agency that the natural gas price indexes referenced in their tariffs and contracts are reliable, said Commissioner William Massey last Wednesday.

In an effort to restore price certainty in the markets, FERC at a minimum should implement standards requiring jurisdictional companies to show the agency that the natural gas price indexes referenced in their tariffs and contracts are reliable, said Commissioner William Massey Wednesday.