Benefit

Producers, oil service companies, Native Americans and even some environmentalists agree on one point: that the Department of Interior’s Bureau of Land Management (BLM) should scrap its proposed rule overseeing hydraulic fracturing (fracking) operations on public and Indian lands and start all over again. But their reasons for requesting the do-over are entirely different.

Pennsylvania’s manufacturing sector would benefit from the development of a statewide energy plan, according to a report from Gov. Tom Corbett’s Manufacturing Advisory Council (GMAC).

Maryland’s portion of the Marcellus Shale may be limited to only the two westernmost counties, but development would benefit the entire state, the executive director of the Maryland Petroleum Council (MPC) told an audience in Hagerstown, MD.

Maryland’s portion of the Marcellus Shale may be limited to only the two westernmost counties, but its development would benefit the entire state, Drew Cobbs, executive director of the Maryland Petroleum Council, told an audience in Hagerstown, MD, on Wednesday.

Natural gas will cut a stronger profile at home and abroad during the years ahead, and the United States will benefit from that, ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson said during a presentation at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York City Wednesday.

Record-setting U.S. natural gas production and storage should benefit consumers large and small this summer, according to the 2012 Summer Outlook by the Natural Gas Supply Association (NGSA).

Record-setting U.S. natural gas production and storage should benefit consumers large and small this summer, according to the 2012 Summer Outlook by the Natural Gas Supply Association (NGSA).

Legislators in the Ohio House of Representatives have passed a mid-biennium budget review bill but stripped out Gov. John Kasich’s proposals to restructure taxes and regulations on the oil and natural gas industry.

Native Americans claim they were unable to add input in the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) negotiations on the final rules that will regulate hydraulic fracturing (fracking) of oil and gas operations on public lands. Absent this input, some of the tribal leaders claimed the rules could impede their ability to develop their energy resources.