Awaited

Encana Corp.’s long awaited Deep Panuke project, 155 miles southeast of Halifax on the Nova Scotian Shelf, will begin shipping its first natural gas by the end of March, officials said last week.

The results of a long-awaited, million-dollar study of air emissions in Fort Worth’s portion of the Barnett Shale in North Texas are in and rather anticlimactic. While a handful of sites were found to have emissions exceeding regulatory allowances, setback requirements for natural gas facilities were generally found to be adequate.

The results of a long-awaited, million-dollar study of air emissions in Fort Worth’s portion of the Barnett Shale in North Texas are in and rather anticlimactic. While a handful of sites were found to have emissions exceeding regulatory allowances, setback requirements for natural gas facilities were generally found to be adequate.

Officials with the New York Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) said they plan to make an announcement Friday on the status of the state’s long-awaited environmental impact study on horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing (fracking) in the Marcellus Shale.

Officials with the New York Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) said they plan to make an announcement Friday on the status of the state’s long-awaited environmental impact study on horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing (fracking) in the Marcellus Shale.

Cabot Oil & Gas Corp. has received a long-awaited air quality permit from Pennsylvania regulators to build three natural gas compressors in Susquehanna County, PA, in the heart of its Marcellus Shale operations.

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) last Thursday narrowly voted out the long-awaited proposal exempting end-users that use swaps to hedge or mitigate commercial risks from the mandatory clearing requirement under the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform Act.

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) Thursday narrowly voted out the long-awaited proposal exempting end-users that use swaps to hedge or mitigate commercial risks from the mandatory clearing requirement under the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform Act.

Chevron Corp. on Thursday sanctioned the long-awaited Jack/St. Malo project, a promising project that it would operate in the Lower Tertiary trend in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico (GOM). When the project ramps up, which is anticipated in 2014, it is expected to produce up to 42.5 MMcf/d of gas and 170,000 b/d of oil.